Evening star., 1933-10-05
TROOPS SUMMONED
AS. Is ARE WOUNDED
|BY STRIKE P|CKETS
Illinois Miners Fire on Every
One Using Highway Near
Harrisburg.
HOTEL, RAILROAD BRIDGE
AND HOMES ARE BOMBED
1900 Men B:siege Members Of
Rival Union-Thrse Tour.
lists Shot.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Ill. October 5.-A
day and night of terror in the coal min
ing region brought troops to Southern
Illinois today after Is men had been
shot, hotel bombed and a railroad
bridge blown up.
The outburst was due to the militant
acts of pickets friendly to the progress
sive miners, who tried to stop work in
a mine manned by United Mine Work
ers.
After bombing several homes of min
ers and firing on citizens. the pickets
formed a 15-mile line around the No. 43
mine of the Peabody Coal Co. and shot
at every one going toward the mine.
Passersby Fired On.
Persons travelling the highways with
out knowledge of any trouble were shot
at by pickets. There were some 1,500
pickets and they would not allow doc
tors or ambulances to enter the line
where wounded miners lay for hours.
The first company of the 130th In
| fantry, National Guard arrived at 1890
| am. and marched to the Peabody Mine,
where l,500 progressive pickets had be.
| sieged score or more mine guards anC
| United Mine Workers all night.
| At least Is casualties were reported,
| five of them among the men impris-
oned at the mine, three tourists and
several United Mine Union members,
who tried to go to work at the mine.
| Five more companies OF GuardsmeI
were en- route.
Concentrated Along Road.
The fighting was concentrated along
| State Highway 13, from Harrisburg to
Marion The mine, which Is half mile
outside Harrisburg. was being worked by
United Mine Workers from Williamson
County.
The trouble has been brewing for
several weeks. 1t came to head yes
terday. when six bombs were exploded
| in Harrisburg. Two more tremendous
blasts last night destroyed Big Four
Railroa dBridge. cutting off the only
railroad communication with the mine
! and the Grand Hotel in El Dorado.
| With the arrival of troops, the battle
spirit of the pickets died. A squad tore
through the town square of Harrisburg
and sent all loiterers home. A few were
slapped to gain speed, but the others
quickly fed before bayonets
The remainder of the company struck
out for the mine and the sight of the
! khaki quieted the besiegers. Route 13
was at once opened to ambulances and
ordinary traffic. Truculent miners faded
into the woods ana the guns which had
been Haunted throughout the town all
night disappeared.
Greeted by Bullets.
Members of the United Mine Work
ers' Union of Williamson County, who
attempted to report for work in the
Peabody mine, were greeted by bullets
when they arrived at a point three
miles east of Shady Rest, headquarters
OF the former notorious Birger gang
| of bandits
| The first account of the rioting came
from Lewis Dodd of Raleigh, Ill, who
was shot in face and shoulder by
snipers on route IA as he was on his
way to work in a Harrisburg packing
house. William Bowers of Raleigh, his
companion, was slightly wounded.
I'VE were driving moderately fast.
Dodd said, when about 20 pickets
started firing on us near Peabody
Mine. No. 43. Both of us were struck
in the first volley and, when I ducked
from the bullets, the car struck bar
ricade across the road, throwing both
of us into ditch and wrecking the
car
THE pickets came over to us and
seeing We were not miners. apologized
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