The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-21
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Dramatic Aftermath Of Battle
at CIiftonvi|Ie Told
by Correspondents
BY BOB DoRA1AN.

By BOB DoRN1AN
3(Copyright, The West VirGinian)
s AXELLA. Pa. July FL They
are hopping upEin the war zone
of the West Virginia panhandle.
3553I have just come back from
"a night raid made by Pennsyl-
yania State Police against the
warning coal miners.
@$ They are cooperating with
West Virginia officials.
into the hills hereabouts. Tears
of women and the blood of men
are spilled in the dramatic after
math Of the battle at Cliftonville,
w. Va, where five insurgent min
aers We're killed, three more prob
ably burned to death and Sheriff.
Harding Duval Of Brooke County
slain.
Day and night the hills are
combed by the constabularies oil
two states and by rowing bands OIL
deputy sheriffs, OF the latter the
most relentless is young Thomas
Duvall, 24-year-old son of the
slain sheriff, who has succeeded
him in office. He is out to avenge
his father.
Dor1nan First in War Zone
was the first newspaperman
permitted to penetrate the war
zone.
I was let into the secret OF Al
Forthcoming night raid. Discard
ing their horses, twenty Pennsyl-I
vania troopers--relentle ss men
who looked hard and hagsard
from week Of sleep1ess nights
gathered in the dark undert
command of Sergeant J. A. Cos
lein. 5a
Motor cars carried them. All
were armed.
They kept off the main roads,
racing recklessly over rutty noun
tain trails in the darkness, close
to the West Virginia line.
The police were out-as they
are nightlly--to mop up to
seize the ringleaders Of the raid
ing party Of 500 strikers who
marched over the line July 1t and
staged the bloody battle of Cliff
Etonville.
Many Miners Forced to Fight
A trooper said to me:
0a Three-fourths of them didn't
want to go. Extre mists with guns!
drove them to it. Many sneaked
away in the dark
3 saw a paper2in the sergeant'sl
hand, list of many names. II
found these raids are progressive
2affairs-from those first arrested
names of Others were obtained
This "mopping up will go on for
weeks.
Some miles from a mining camp,
the raiders left the machines. AL
2skirmish line was formed, Giro
ling and spreading as it advanced.
At the Zero hour the troopers
moved forward.
T saw shadow forms in thel
dark as the columns spreading
arms swept on. Every man en-
ntered was driven before the!
Tightening web.
White-faced prisoners. caught
in the net, are brought forth
sing1y.
sYour name?" barks a trooper.
A quick glance at the paper asl
it is given.
Get over to one side,'' thel
trooper orders If the name is notl
on the list. If tits there
Unto that machine" the mani
is ordered. Cars have beeut
brought up ready to take the pris-
1oners to Wellsburg Jail And from
there-because Wellsburg is viol-
emily non-union and threats oil
lynching have been heard-on to|
Wheeling.
38'&I saw the people Of the poor
little town gathered about-wo.
men and children routed from
.treir beds.
Troopers Push Way into Homes
Troopers ruthlessly push their
way into houses, Search warrants
are superfluous. If. demanded
and this rarelly-any scrap Of
paper will do, for many cannot
read or write. So the search 5o.s
on. 05AsG |
watched one group. Barefoot
ed women, some with anger mark
ing their faces, more with dumb
questioning looks, stood there.
And wide-eyed children, many
cryin gnoisely because they saw
their mothers tears, cling to the
skirts of the women
Babies in arms. some ragged
and all red-eyed vailed while vol
men pleaded with troopers.
Guns were but rarely used.
saw three men flee over hill,
but a shot above their heads
stopped them. MostIy it was theI
growing fear of the BLACK Horse
men'-modernly equipped with
motor cars now-that checked re-
sistance.