The New York herald., 1922-06-24
SHERIFF WAS IDLE
Guard Colonel Declares
County Official Re-
fused to Obtain
Outside Aid.
MAYOR A NINE LEADER
Comedies Massacre, but
Declares NOn-UniOn Men
Started Trouble.
HERRIN NOW Is QUIET
Nurses Care for Wounded,
Though Threats Are Made
to Fire Upon Them.
HERRIN NOW is QUIET

Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
HERRIN. ILL.,. June 23.-Riddled with
bullets, their clothing torn to shreds,
three more victims of yesterdays
massacre OF employees of the Southern
Illinois Coal Company's Strip Mine.
were found to-day. They were taken
from small pond near the mine by
party of searchers who had received
an anonymous tip that they would
find score of scabs in the pond"
The casualty list with the addition
of the three bodies found to-day brings
the total of recovered dead here to
twenty, of which only eleven have
been identified, including those of the
two miners who were killed in the
first clash at the mine on Wednesday.
OF the nineteen wounded men, Of
ficially reported, thirteen are at the
Herrin Hospital. According to DR..
j. T. Black. chief of the hospital sur
geons, four are dying. An even chance
for recovery is extended for the other
nine. Volunteer nurses are caring for
the victims. disregarding threats Of
firing on the hospital.
Opsn hostilities In the mining area
have stopped and no immediate re-
currence Is expected This Is the opin-
ion OF mine and county officials after
two days OF fighting between strike
breakers and union men.
Mines to Stay Idle.
No otta,,nt ,.,iI - ,,,ado Cor tt,x ,ras
ent to operate the strip mines. and tho
thousand of miners in Williamson
county are temporarily content with
victory.
While II is believed there will be no
more disorders since the non-union mine
has been completely dismantled by
dynamite and torches. yet there Is \
feeling of dread among many citizens
who are anxious TO see order restored.
City officials. however. are confident
that they have the situa ton in hand.
Citizen committees from Marion and
Herrin have Joined in asking officials
of strip mines not 10 make further at
tempts TO operate with imported labor,
and II is believed no effort will be nada
to open the mines until the union miners
and operators have reached an agree
ment.
Although shots were heard early to-
day In various sections OF the county
they were credited to celebrants as no
fighting was reported. Rifles and shot
guns OF every description, which were in
evidence several hours yesterday, no
longer are seen.
Parties searched the wood TODAY for
additional bodies. Unofficial reports were
received that as many as twenty had been
seen in the territory surrounding the
mines. Some are believed to be hidden
In pits and may not be recovered for
several days. One of the officials OF
the mine workers union who Is active
In conducting the search for other VIC
Tins of the massacre declared that this
total number of dead will exceed thirty.
A swarm OF men and women taxed
the capacity of the improvised morgus
all day. They passed In Indian file,
viewing the bodies. apparently more in
terested In noting the wounds which
killed the men than in the identity of
the victims.
Mayor Finds Son Dead.
One of the most pathetic features OF
the day occurred when James Shoemak-
er, aged Mayor of Charlestown, Ill. en-
tered the morgue and in passing the
line OF bodies suddenly halted and cried
out: 'My God. It's my boy Willie :" His
son William had been employed as an
engineer at the mine.
IL was learned that the son had been
attacked by the mob when he protested
against the fatal beating of c. X. Nc
Dowell. superintendent OF the Striu
mine. Mcdowell was beaten TO death
by the frenzied miners because he was
unable TO keep up with the march OF
the prisoners The inability was due 70
an artih -ial leg.
The young engineer was son-in-law
OF William J. Lester, president Of the
coal company. Besides Engineer Shoe
maker and Superintendent Mcdowell the
others identified are Arthur B. Miller OF
Chicago. an OVERSEAS veteran. whose dis
charge bore the name James Songhuze
and in whose pocket was card bearing
the name u. Overton, Poseyville Ind.
and John Emil Fred Lang Anton Nut
kovich. Allen Novine and G. Z. Davis.
In a formal statement Mayor A. I.
Pace OF Herrin. a sub-distrlct mine on
cial, conceded the massacre was tho
work OF mob of union strikers. but
sought TO place the blame for tho mob's
murderous impulse on the Staying OF
two strikers. who. he averred. had gone
to the mine on Wednesday to attemp,
20 get the workers TO leave town.
sherin IL Blamed.
Col. Sam N Hunter OF Adit.-Gen,
Carlos Blacks staff. who has been an
official, observer here all week attaches
further blame for the trouble on Sher-
IN Melvin Thaxton. a former union
miner. He told of repeated pleas from
superintendent Mcdowell for protection
and recting developments indicating ap.
troaching trouble.
Colonel Hunter declared that he
turned over to Sheriff ThayIon these