Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-12-21
a SURVIVORS
OF Mine WAR
GIvEi.DETAILs
.OFOUTBREAK
By Associated Press

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MARION m Dee 90 Peter -ljller
md Otis Clark. two ~ tho five q y.
tants on trial charged with murder In
connection with Iiourln riots were
pointed cut In court hy two survivors
who took the witness aard today.
Tho survivors who occupied the
stand most of the day were william
Cnirncr. = T. OIloukc. Bernard Jones
an ilohcit officer the hitter a Univcr.
si,y ol rorn-ylvan'a graduate and a
'onkk .pcr az tho strip" minc where
'hc RIOTS started whlrh resulted In the
hath uf twenty non.un on men. The
first three were guards AZ the mine.
Cairn's. testified that tho iS men in
'hc mine surrendered under white flag
1etwccn 20 and 500 O'Clock the morn.
ng uf june 20 and were marched out
4 the iit with their hl nds ahove their
heads aftcr being told that they would
not be- harmed. Hc said h. had soon e
e. McpHNcll. the crippled supcr.nten.
dent 81 tho mine. led away by OTIS
Clark, who had a gun and another man.
Told 10 Run
we were marched on until W. came
20 birhcd wire fence" he said "and
ome one shouted all men with guns
line w a. the right and then some one
else crled: Now YOU fellows run. then
the firing started"
While be- was wounded lying beside
he fence with two bullets IN his body.
.cairncs sd.d he saw Peter Hitler come
lp 10 anoihcr wounded man who was
leaning rgn!nst a tree and fire into his
lody lf.rr shouting:
"You gr,ats bIEar--- car We Kin
youg'
The witness said he saw another man
approach John Shoemaker. assistant
superintendent AZ tho mine who was
lying wounded in the field and say.
Here's that machine gun.
'ner. Ctirucs declared the speaker then
drew a ld,tol ana "blcw shoemaker
hond OFF"
The witness said be- was picked an
tud takgn o. hospital by sheriff Thax.
tom about an hour atcr
uEouk' told ~ being shot twice "a,
DE- fcne, of fleeing through the woods
until ho was rocapturrd and marched
with I've other bleeding. pleading vic.
Tins through HorIiu 20 q cemetery out.
side the city whore alI six were sho,
town In tho road
Prayed for Water.
Tho witI,ss said hc remembered prav.
ng Cor any Christian in tho crowd %
bring niw water and On the name az
b mother ior some one 90 notify ho-
NJ his fsfc
"" ui sDre ono kurI' over him
md sl1ghol his thrUt with porket
knife pEoukr was picked uu with srt-
IN bullet wounds in hls body
Jun'. trs'If "a thl' ho had raised l
'th '" iirr p' 'ho m.ur rr ihr order az
N.pHN,g rul was told ty ihc leader
fh" i..l.rs thti ttoa, ib the r.rn
would %, token os' ~ ih. rrYniry W..
.lI ut .a, march from th. mne while
SOME .l. iu tir crowd shouted "kn
'h.r Utur 'Ecw lui that Dihsrr
cried 'r" vc ero going lo pui them nn
e ua.u and 90" Thorn ou' of here
They've nd enough already
ilo quoted OTIS Clark bs saving.
"W,u going through With This if !
have fu shoot them ll myself
Jones Paid hat when th, firing al ti"
fence starred hc luapod over. ran
through fhr fields ana later took train
f'r Chicago after being given refuge bv
farm'r
ncet"r T. Witness
Another witness Co., " Hulc's. %
Nsrion. tr.tfcd that after the riots hs
had heard Hert Cmcr another ~ th,
defend nis boast th,i D." had prevented
somr one from giving ouc ~ Tho wound
81 at th" ccwrtofy drink ~ water
Don "a 4 Ewing q chicago news.
riirr man h1d previously testified fhlt
'rao" he prevented him from giving a
drink o. Cuc ~ iho wounded and anuth.
90 witness said %, bad seou Grace shooi
ing ln tho cemetery.
a T norman ifcrrln hardware
dealer testified that or che afternoon ~
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