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Show Lee Calvin Tells Com- mittee of the Rain of f .l i Bullets From Rifles and Machine Guns s;r Wlien Armored Train j; Passed Through Holly Grove in West Vir- j ginia; I ONE MAN KILLED, WOMAN WOUNDED Latter Limps Into the Room and Relates j Story of the Attack j; and How She Tried to (i Protect Her Three Lit- tie Ones From Leaden 11 Hail. j CHARLESTON, W. Va June 14. 8 About a single battle iu the coal strike j on Paint and Cabin creek districts ecu- tered today's inquiry by the senato n committee investigating the coal mine strike. Almost all day tho comm'ittcq H heard statements of the attack on Hoi- ly Grove,' a strikers ' camp, from an ar- Jf mored train run up into Jhe strike dis- If trictfon Februar3' 7. c tl The eonimittoo was astounded at the f testimony of Lee Calvin,, an ex-mine guard, ono of the men in the armored ! train when the strikers' camp was l fired on. Cisco Estep, a miner, was killed and Mrs. Annie Hall wounded. ' Calvin, called by the attorneys for the miners, told a sensational siory of the HoJIy Grove attack. After relating i that he had been a "chief guard'-" on ) Cabin creok, and had loft, the district jf because of tho shootings there, he said jf that Sheriff Hill and Quiuu Morton, a l mine operator, had met him in Charles- j! ton and prevailed upon him to join a uj party going up Paint creek in the ar- J mored train. ' 1 1 Used Machine Gun. If "There were ten or twelve men in j tho car attached to tho train," said ;j Calvin, "and when wo got just above I ) Paint Creek junction, all 0f them be- j j gan getting their rifles. The' tried to give me a rifle, but I told them I had j i no shooting to do. Tho br,nkemah camo ; through the train and turned down tho li lights. He told us not to raise win- i dows, but to shoot right through the i ' windows. I was leaning out of an open : window and as we camo up to Holly S Grove, I saw a stream of fire start r out of tne baggage car .msc anead, ; where the machine guns were mounted. i The stream kept up as wo went -i through Holly Grove. "As we passed I saw three or four J flashes of fire from the tents." "Wero there any shots from the " touts before tho shooting began from tho train?" asked Attorney Belcher, J 1 for the miners. I . "I didn't see any," said the wit- , , ' ness. "I just heard tho ongina whis- -j tlo blow and tho shooting from the train began." Accuses Operator. Tho witness said that Quinn Morton, ono of the operators, wa3 on the train. ( When the train had passed the min- 1 ors' camp at Holly Grovo on its way 1 to Mucklow. he said, Mr. Morton came $ running back through the car. k "What did he say?" asked Belcher. h , "He said, 'Back up tho train and 4 we will givo them another round.' C "He wns talking to the sheriff, and t, I'm not sure, but I think the sheriff ; i told him something about thore being f I wonion and children up in those touts ' t and ho would not shoot." y 111 At this statement, Seuator Martino ' 1 of New Jersey, almost leaped from his J I chair. , I I What sort of a man is this man .i Quinu Morton?" he shouted. ''Is he i an ordinary American citizen that he . j could order such a thing?" U Tho attorneys for tho coal operators j 1 were on thoir foot in a moment and j for a time the committoe room was in I confusion. , , . , . ! "Mr. Morton will bo broucht before 1 vour committee," Bhoutod Attorney i Jackson, "and you will seo him and j j talk with him." 1 "God help me, then," remarked Sen- M ator Martine. J i Attorneys for the operators protested against Senator Martine 's remarks and ' I aft or some argument they were told j bv tho committee that thoy would be J j Hiven an opportunity to cross-examine ' (Continued on Pago Three.) . ' mm 110 llNBS vernor Glasscock ISdtfte Committee 1IW" of Mines HByfcl (o Arbitrate. MT Pg Ono.) lklon by Mr Belcher peatcd the statement mWwSL Norton c&mo through tho 'tack QP tbe tr,ai? and HL-mother round.' TwheD the train reached tf ibovo Holly Grove, the Kcaoxea car remained there Ktn until the last battlo of O' tie committee that he ClKuBpany bookkeeper named WKbins lillod in tho battle, KSf 4118 Wllo tbat day. - when they brought . :2ntietcherf" he said, 'him l rBj dim who were shot in tho HLj declared that Chesapeako jjMESlru hfld " slugged" him St&Kfctoc hotel because he had , ''Kgj men and -women who I imhtnv nt -rears of arduous l,-Kgv'(MHrom the West Vir-k'jflvrf" Vir-k'jflvrf" told, today the com-Sug com-Sug rlda of the controversy. BjL'tk'Ule of a peaceful com-l:W com-l:W wnUntfld people, trans-PBCi.titster trans-PBCi.titster of war, and mem-W mem-W -jBot'idite committee Eat back - vwld glances as witness after vEtfl tia story of tbe strike. rf'Bitoeji for striking miners ' Hdthir use. They called about ' jBsu iid women of the hills ' .1 (ommittea of tho attack j,fcls tABp at Holly Grove. jKjTittonieys for the mine op-Kcsftd op-Kcsftd that they would ehow jmM fab' was fired on from tho HiM tie machine guns in tbe were turned loose, tbe AjMtttivtd into tbe rocord tos-SuHpf;B!s tos-SuHpf;B!s and womon of Holly WwHttdttBiripHon of the armored HHM'Uliitd from Harry Arthur, j9jH( eployed by the Chesapeake 3JHf a2rc3 as a brakeman on the 'mll iti De sheeting of Jflpi incased, the baggage car jBrtii and the two machine jBitad to as io give the great- .-MferMg! through the protect- Woman on Stand. fcwJall, who limped into jBjPta room, told tbe com-If com-If Yielded her three lit-Rn lit-Rn tho bullets by hid-HjjlB hid-HjjlB chimney corner of her MjJLHolly Grove when tho jWsi-.mada its appearance. W B5? - been shot through F which passed r--M?PlMe on her parlor iable. 1' dBfand women described '1 f J 61076 1vll0n thc kjBf?1? the creeks, the activi-j;ttEB activi-j;ttEB guards and' the spe- Chesapeake & Ohio "'nlce district, and the mmti$ discussed gHT'tU or today's witnesses. EF"1 testified that a man KH talkine on a Cabin mmWJ' wot from a closet in K'X '"Rsnient with a mine Bnninol action had over SKi tfi ootinff 3 far as H?inori 6aia that IBtf.'Lv ehavior of the MVlt paraded through WffFt declared ho had been KSk. i A?.or Bpeckl aent MSAn 0n ,tho "armored un"n to shoot ,JK S 01 10 W11' our m' Save similar testi- 'Wfft Tutors began m mer 8herff Hill, aBked "t!!itn'2 give any orders to 'Imki men load" .jK u 1 Rive orders eitbor go Im vln '"niseic who thfs & Grove. The siination without altering the original story told by Calvin. The committee ordered Calvin to return re-turn on Monday. The operators were allowed to put on two witnesses in advance of tho opening open-ing of their case Monclav. George Car-soy-, a coal minor, said that in the Ohio field a line was imposed upon him by tho union for working in a non-union mine in West "Virginia. Hillborn Pierce, another miner, told a similar story. Conductor Testifies. C. D. Honakcr, a conductor on tbe Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, was today's to-day's first witness. He said that prior to April 30, 1913, mine guards in Cabin Creek rode on trains by virtue of passes. He gave the committeo the names of a number of guards and the numbor of the passes they carried. These guards, ho said, wero all armed. Mr. Honaker said his train had been stoned three times during tho strike. Former Governor Glasscock was re-! re-! called to the stand for cross examination examina-tion and said that the first trouble broko out at Boomer, a unionized mine ontside of tho Paint and Cabin Creek districts. A lengthy correspondence between the governor and the operators on the question of arbitration was placed in the rocord. Aftor his first proposal was refused bv the operators, Mr. Glasscock framed a new proposition, which he believed eliminated recognition recogni-tion of the union. This second proposal, pro-posal, bo said, was likewise rejected by tho operators, although accepted by the miners. Ownership Question. Senator Kenyon took up tho question of ownership of lands on Paint and Cabin creeks. "On Paint creek," said Mr. Glasscock, Glass-cock, "I have understood that outsido men were heavy stockholders. Tho Cabin creek mines, however, are ownod by West Virginia interests." "The witness named Judge James Christian of "Virginia, .former Representative Rep-resentative Connell of Scranton, Pa., and John H. Jones of Pittsburg, as some of tho outsiders who owued innd in tho creek. Under cross-examination by attorneys attor-neys for the miners, Mr. Glasscock told of calling a "stato wido peace conference," confer-ence," which assembled at the state bouse, and which was attended by some 400 or 500 "representative citizens" from all over tho state. Tho object ot the mooting was to discuss means of preventing and settling labor disputes. Operators Unfriendly. "Was tho attitude of tho representative representa-tive operators friendly toward thnt meeting7" asked Mr. Belcher. "I thought decidedly otherwise," said Mr. Glasscock. Ho said that a resolution presented by an attorney for tho operators, outlining out-lining the terms on which thoy would participate in the conference, precipitated precipi-tated an acrimonious dobato. "Tho mooting thus broke up," he said, "much to my mortification and disgust." When Mr. Glasscock was excusod tho miners' attorney again began to call tho women of tho strike region. Tho attorneys for the stato objected object-ed to reopening tho question of trial under martial law. W. A. Abofct, a delivery waon driver driv-er for an "outsido store, in the strike zono, said that mino guards prevented him from delivering supplies. J. H, Piko of Holly Grove said that mino guards shot the lock off his door, llo described the shooting up of Holly Grove from the armored train. Tho train was dark, ho said, but ho could see tho flashes of guns on tho trnln. "What did vou do when tho bullets bogan to fly?0 asked Senator Kenyon. I "Just stood and looked at thorn J said tho miner. Piko said that ho ivas ono of the party at the homo of Oristo Estep, whose widow last night told the committee com-mittee how ho died while trying to got his family into tho collur whon the bul-lots bul-lots from the train bogan to riddle his homo. Nono of the men at tho Estop house had guns with them. Alleged Brutality. Luther Hudnali was at Holly Grove during tho strike. He said he was taken from his homo by guards and taken to Mueklow. "During tho day they stood mo in front of tho Gatling gun," he said, "and at night thoy locked mo in a bos car." "Were you frightened when you wero in front of the Gatling gun 7" askod Senator Konyon. "I novor thought Td get homo no more," said tho miner. Hudnali said that tho guards told him thoy wanted "to-hold an inquest" ovor a dond raau. "My wifo bogged them not to take mo," ho said, "and thoy taken ahold of mo. Thoy taken ahold of my wife, too, beoauso she hung on mo." Ho was shown the body of a dead man who ho was told was Stringer, tho mine guard hilled at Holly Grovo. He took no part in any inquest and was never accused of participating in the killing of Stringer. Tho witness named a group of men who wero linod up before tho Galling gun with him and said that twenty-two men were locked up in tho box car. There wore no sanitary accommodations, Senator iVIarliuo elicited, and tho mpn werft kept in tho , car that, night. "You'o noon cattle packed in cars t4at way, haven't you?" asked Senator Sena-tor Martine. "Yes, sir, just that away." Ed Bragg, a deputy sheriff, said that for nine years prior to the strike ho had beou able to maintain law and ordor on. Paint crook singlohanded. "If anything happoned I'd got some of the minors to help mo," he said. Trouble first began on the creek, ho said, whon the mine guards wero first brought iD. "These guards paraded up and down tho creek," he said, "carrying rifles and rovolvors. Sunday and every other day. Then tho trouble began." |
