Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-03 | Page 3 | Cavalry Placed at Disposal of Commander Wood

CAVALRY PLACED AT DISPOSAL OF COMMANDER WOOD CHICAGO, Nov. 2. The war department depart-ment today placed at the disposal of General Gen-eral Leonard .Wood, commander of the central department of the army, the Fourteenth cavalry at Fort Sam Houston j for use, if necessary, In Colorado in connection con-nection with the strike of soft coal miners. In the absence of any develop- j ments Indicating trouble in the Colorado mine fields, no orders looking to early movement of the regiment were Issued. Federal troops already are in West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Tennessee and Wyoming for use in emergencies in the miners' strike, and ; General Wood was ready to dispatch fur- 1 ther regular army men to any dangei-ous j spot3 upon requests from civil authorities. authori-ties. A detachment of federal cavalry from I Fort D- A. Russell reached Rock Springs, -Wyo., and began patrolling the coal fields. I Governor Carey had requested troops yesterday. yes-terday. ' The First squadron of the Eighth cavalry cav-alry left El Paso, Texas, today for Gallup, N. M., for duty in connection with the strike, at the request of Governor Lar-razolo. Lar-razolo. State troops to the number of 1000 or more had been mobilized or ordered to mobilize in Colorado and Alabama, and in other coal-producing states the state authorities were holding their forces in readiness for any' emergency.