The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-24

LpaId my fare back to Chicago"
! Bert was almost mlrncuiously
/ spared from death under tho with
! ering rifle fire when he Crnwled 10
n safe hiding place beneath ciurnp
/ OF blackberry bushes. where hc lay
| immovablc for three hours.
! The second cook was one OF the
| gang OF SO. most OF whom met
their death at the barbed wire
| fence.
Two men. mcmbers of a gang
| which reached the troublesome
| mine country the first OF the week
| today rode into Chicago on the rods
/ after heating thicr way back from
| Egypt They had hidden for hours
In the woods before making their es.
| cape.
There were eight OF ua riding IN
n truck TO the mine last Tuesday
morning" said 6. J. Mellon, one Of
| the men suddenly coming around
a curve In the road we were fired
| on and although the driver was
! wounded. he put on speed and We
| managed - reach n river. We
| plunged In and swan for lifc. Some
| how / reached the woods on the
other side and got away"
| By the Associated Press.
| pit Hnd strip mines are operating IN
. illinois than ever before, the num-
7 Dor tutalinR more than six hundred
according to Martin Boil, ASSISTANT
director OF the state depa artm ment OF
mines ana minerals
Although there Is no way for mo
! 10 give an accurate number OF the
| local mines IN operation" said Mr.
| Ron, "it iR my opinion that nearly
q nj ufVfV ..fN sHV,. L.. 4.
state is working.
"Of course this does not apply 20
local mines that employed union
| labor. Those are closed. But I'm the
cases whore the mines are run by
members of one family or part time
miners. men who follow this occupa-
| ton only In the summer and are
| farmers the remainder OF the year,
! In different. virtually everyone OF
them is working.
There Ia no telling the amount OF
coal that these mines get 20 the sur
face. / understand that some Of
them however. are shipping csal"
statistics compiled by the depart
mont OF mines and minerals for
1921 show that there were at that
time moro than six hundred of these
local mines In operation. Mr.. Boil
IA Of the opinion that the coal strike
has had n tendency to Increase this
number.
ny the Associated Press
HERRlN, June "a Scores OF
men employed at Williamson county
coal mines to guard and keep the
mines IN shape during the strike.
quit work tonight under threats
| from certain union miners hut
shortly after midnight thev returned
to work when Hugh Willis. mine
union district board member. per-
sonally promised them protection
! aud placed union miners to guard
them from any fresh outbreaks. ABB
sence OF these caretakers on the Job
through agreement OF operators
and miner officials would have
meant ruin for millions Of dollars
worth OF mines through flooding.
CLARKSBURG. w. Va. June 23.
Two striking coal miners, foreigners
and unidentified, were shot TO
death when = mob ot $50 strikers
| attacked a street car bearing deputy
sheriffs and officers and employees
Ot the Hudson Coal company from
| this city to it's Lewis mining plant at
| Reynoldsville this morning. Deputy
n broken arm and several others
were hurt. The miners resumed
work on nonunion scale four days
| ago.
| CHICAGO, Juuu 23.-The Har-
grave secret service, which had 30
| operatives on guard at the Lester
| strip mine at fIerrin when the mine
was stormed by striking union min
ers. had accounted for but four
deaths from the massacre. One of
these. Sidney j. Morrison was
Known to have been mortally
have escaped, II was said. while the
remaining 26 are missing.
JOHNSTON CITY. Ill. June 2S.-
The williamson County Miner, a To-
cal paper. in a Ttory today Gays that
a strip mine near here is being op-
Grated despite the massacre at the
Lester mine. The story says that
armed guards are stationed at tho
mine and that no one is allowed
near Il. Each guard carries two
pistols. Il Is said.
CHICAGO, June 23,--Atty. Gen.
Edward j. Brundage stated today
that Assistant Attorney General Ro-
denburg and one other representa-
tive left Springfield for Herrln this
morning to make an Investigation Of
the riot after which they win report
to him.
Mr.. Brundage made thie statement
In confirmation OF a confidential re-
port received this afternoon from
Springfield.
THE nttorney-generars depart
ment has no authority TO prevent
riots" said Mr.. Brundage, but II
has authority to punish rioters. Such
action is open to us rs we took in