The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-06-22

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Shooting, Hanging and
Clubbing
Herrin. ILL.,. June 22.-(By the AS
sOciated Press. "A check at noon
made by the Associated Press showed
twenty-SiX known dead with the indi-
cation that the total is more than thir-
ty in the mine war. Bodies are spread
over an area of fifteen miles square,
some riddled with bullets, others beat
en- to death, and three hanging from
trees by ropes. An Associated Press
correspondent. after ten Intellectual
attempts, finally persuaded a taXicab
driver to take him through the scene
of the fight. The Strip mine had been
fired and a freight train on a siding
was also burning. while the miners
looted several cars for food supplies.
On road near the mine six men were
tied together all wounded hundreds
of men and women laughing at their
pleas for water
Wholesale Killings
Herrin, Ill.,, June 22.-CBy the Asso-
ciated s.3-Nineteen men are
erS' warfare. An incomplete check
showed sixteen non union and three
union men dead One non-union man
was found hanging to tree. his body
riddled with bullets The bodies of six
teen non union men were found in the
woods near a mine six miles east of
here. One man had been beaten to
death and the other; shot.
Several thousand men and boys
were present when the sixteen were
killed at 9 o'clock this morning. For
ty-fOur men who We're taken prisoners
at the camp. were herded in front of
the captors and when they reached
point in the woods half way to Her
rim. the killing began. The strikers de-
clared the prisoners made break to
escape and that they were pursued
and killed
Details Are Shocking
Hcrrin, ILL.,, June 22.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press.)-A renewal of warfare
in the strip mine of the Southern Hi.
nois Coal Company here was reported
today Unveritied reports here said
that five bodies were being brought to
Ilerrin.
The miners brought in from the Chi
cago district are reported TO have sur
rendered in their camp near the Strip
mine. There were Al men i'm the
group hosting the white flag, il was
said These men were marched to-
ward Marion and six were said to
have made a dash for freedom They
We're hotly pursued.
There are three bodies of miners in
undertaking establishments here and
three wounded miners in hospitals,
one not expected to live A report was
brought here that Il or 20 men were
seen lying in a ditch near the mine
property, whether dead, wounded or
hiding was not known.
Among the rumors persisting in the
confusion here was that the ~ men
captured were not marched to Marion
but were diverted into the woods and
some of them lynched. Parties going
into the outskirts OF the fighting zone
said they saw many bodies and could
verify nine deaths.
Herrin, June 22.-(By the Associat-
ed Press Sounds of occasional
shots were heard early today from the
direction OF mining camp near here
where striking union miners surround
ed a camp in which approximately one
hundred non-union miners are quar-
tered Sounds of explosions said be
, be dynamite blasts were also audi
BILE here. Two union miners are known
to be dead. six unaccounted for and
nearly a score of men wounded as the
result of an open fight which began
late yesterday and continued until
dark. Unverified reports say that more
than twelve men were killed in the
clashes.
The shots continued intermitters'y
as the morning wore on. Telephone
communication between this city and
the camp is cut, making it difficult to
obtain details of the situation.
1t was not known whether the war
fare of yesterday had been resumed
but the shots and explosions con-
| tinued.