Show TORCH IS APPLIED Great Mines of Pocahontas Coal Company Near Bramwell W Va Fired by Strikers Bramwcll 1 W Va Sept 2The great mines of the Pocahontas colliery company com-pany mc on fire This morning the strikers applied the torch to the various pOrtions of the mine near the west entrance which Is on the Virginia side and the mine Is now said to bo burning burn-ing furiously l The guards and strikers fired volley after valley at each other but at this hour It Is not known whether any OTIC was killed i The governor of Virginia will be appealed ap-pealed to to send troops to Pocahontas at once Tho situation is extremely critical The skirmish this morning between the strikers and the guards at the Po oahontas Coal company after the firing fir-Ing of the mine by the strikers has greatly angered the minors from the fact that a number on thlr side were severely Injurod I Is thought here that before tomorrow night troops will be either In the Flat Top region or en route Tonight the Pocahontas collieries company have the fire In their mine practically extinguished but that company com-pany has doubled Its force of guards as another attack at any hour Is feared Many shots have been fired from ambush am-bush toward the direction of the nonunion non-union minors going to and from work In thq Flat Top fields The Elkhorn region Is very quiet no violence having been ireportcd from that section to nlhl |