New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-22
Pennsylvania
Troops Poured
Into Coal Field
Machine Gunners, Cavalry,
Infantry and Munitions
Moved Into 5 Southwest
Counties to Open Mines
742 Aboard First Train
Motor Trucks Garry Others:
Speed and Secrecy Are
Orders Given Officers


xanners and cavalry of the Pennsyl-g
yania National Guard moved on the
b;suninous coal fields in the five
southwestern counties of the state to
carry out Governor Sprouts orders that
Inc mines must be protected when they
are reopened. Troop trains and lines
n munition-laden trucks started from
here to-day, their departure being car
RED out with speed and as much Sc
erecy as possible regarding their exact
destinations. State police in the coun-
ties of Cambria, Indiana, Somerset,
Washington and Westmoreland will act
in conjunction with the soldiers.
Colonel E. ]. Stackpole jr., with
Major Lyon Adams, head of the State
Police, already is on the ground, hav-
Ing gone by motor car at midnight
Rsgimental staff officers also went
vest
742 Men on First Train
When the first troop train lett it was
composed of eighteen coaches carrying
more than 700 enlisted men and forty
sxo officers, composing two troops of
Aounted men-one being Troop C, the
Governors own-as we'll as a medical
INIT and two squadrons. with the head
quarters detachment OF the 104tn Cav
alry. They were commanded by Major
R. T. Sheaver and carried 500 head of
horses Four more troop outfits from
Chambersburg, Carlisle, Newcastle and
~,
route.
Simultaneous with the troop train
twenty-seven big motor trucks, loaded
to the top with supplies and ammuni-
tion, left the State Arsenal, under COM
mand Of Captain Ira n. Kellberg.
Earlier in the day three machine
gun companies comprising the SD Ma
chine Gun Squadron, commanded by
Major Laird Curtin moved from quar-
ters at Lewisburg. Boalsburg and Belle
fcnte. The SD Machine Gun Squadron
has been temporarily attached to the
lO4th Cavalry.
each equipped with q machine gun unit,
will be distributed as follows:
Five troops at Ebensburg, one troop
at Possum Glory, one troop in the the
vicinity OF Johnstown, three Or four
troops at Cokesburg, one troop at Char
leroi and one troop at Moreanzia.
Special Dispatch to The Tribune =
UNIoNT0WN, Pa, July 81. = An
early morning battle was waged be-
tween mine guards and strikers at the
DearSh Mine of the H. C. Prick Coke
Company to-day So far as known
there were no casualties. About 1890
o'clock man was seen in the vicinity
of The tipple and he ran when called
upon by the guards to stop.
The guards opened fire and immedl-
steIy shooting began from the hill
sides. Between seventy-five and hun
dred bullets were exchanged between
tke guards and the concealed miners.
One defender reported having hole
shot through his hat.
State police after an investigation
said that they believed the man seen
near the tipple intended to blow up
the plant. The mine has been running
about 70 per cent of normal, with up
ward OF 200 men at work.
Bomb Tears Hole in Earth
At the Lemont mine of the Frick
company a bomb was hurled at the,
tpple early this morning, but it did
not strike its mark. A big hole was
torn in the ground.
The home Of Lindsay Miller, a guard
at the Revere mine of the w. ]. Rainey
Coke Company, was burned, with all its
' contents, at l O'Clock this morning.
Tho family was absent. Neighbors
said they saw flames in. the house,
which leads them to the belief hat the
structure had been broken into and set
on fire.
Several additional mines in the Con-
neisyiile coke region are now produc-
ing coal, while others are undergoing
Cleanup process preparatory to opera
ton. The Donald mines Nos. / and 2
OF the Consolidated Coal Company, at
Gray's Landing, are shipping coal by
both rail and river Two loaded coal
cars were moved from the Romeo mine
OF the H. c. 'Frick Coke Company yes
terday.
While the vast majority of the
miners who are on strike ignored the
government order to return to work,
their action was anticipated by the
operators. They are being daily re-
Placed at many partly active coal
mines and coke plants, it is said.
General Reopening Monday
Monday will see the first attempt at
:. general resumption in all parts of
the affected portion of the lower Con-
heilsyille region. Many prominent
operators have signified their inten-
uon OF resumng next week.
Miners in the Brownsville section,
on being appealed to by operators to
return to work in accordance with
resident Harding's proclamation, re-
FUSED to consider the proposition.
AT the ". j. Rainey Coke Company
WORKS notices posted calling on the
men to return to work were torn down
and trampled on.
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