| Show KILLING OF COLORED MINERS o 1 Ind Immel March 8 Tho om report of or Chris Evans who vas IM sent Bent to the West Vest Virginia coat coal fields to Investigate the killing of colored miners nt lit has hils been re received reo re calved nt at the headquarters of ot the Ihl Unit United United ed Ell Mine Workers The report says sas that Gen Germ St Sf ClaIr who Is in the tho attorney for forthe forthe the tho coal cOllI companies created an nn agitation tion to have lIae the men arrested and taken that Immediate Immediately ly I 1 arrangements were made with lIh time the United States SInteR marshal by the maine workers to give bonds for 01 nil who were arrested but that later lator on account of or an agitation creat created ed el by Deputy Marshal Cunningham ham the agreement entered into with the tho marshal was las broken and Cunningham was nil sent cent to arrest time the men According to the report there was a great crEul feeling against Cunningham and the men decided not to allow him to lo ar arrest arest artest test rest est them and he was driven away Mr Evans Eans says sas that he be sent a telegram to the tho men to submit quietly but that the time cail companies who own all nil of time the tele Ide telegraph telegraph graph and telephone lines connecting with sith tho time town refused to deliver deller It and before he lie could get any message to time the thomen themen men maca Cunningham and his hili deputies who he III said sold were the worst charac churoc characters tars he could collect wept went to the town a II second time stud and killed tho the miners in inthe inthe the night in iii their beds bed Mr Evans says a that he went to the scene of lit the trouble the next morning sifter after 48 8 men amen had hod been arrested for tor a n conspiracy to kill Cunningham and found there In a u house hous occupied by a colored man the dead bodies of Wll Wil Wilham Hum ham JI III Dodson William Wiiliam Clark ClarIs and Rich Richard Richard ard nn Clayton Claton all ull colored The report continues On Inquiry wt we found that the tho wife of or the colored man loan with four children together with eight colored men moan were store in the house and that about daybreak all who vho were Inside were sere awakened by shots being fired tired Into Inlo the time house from time tho outside This shooting took place ploce without any anything anything thing being sold to those on the In inside tilde side and time the th three colored men 1 I have mentioned were found round den dead on the Two rW were vero In in their night clothes and the theother other one was partly dressed with one shoe on partly laced and tIme the other foot bare We Ve visited another house where Jo Joseph Joseph seph lay In bed mortally wound wounded ed ad having been shot through time the win window dow ns as he was stooping to put on his trousers after getting out of bed lived hived with his sister and she made the statement nt at tIme the Inquest that she plead pleaded ed ad with those shooting not to kill her J In reply Cunningham said Women and children must mount take care of themselves In no Instance could we me find where these people had been nuked asked to surrender until after the deputies had commenced to shoot at the occupants occupants pants of the houses named We next went to time the house of Lucian who was wan considered mortally wounded I nm am ltd led to understand that after the shooting referred to this man maim with others returned time tho lire fire of tim tho tease posse and this Is the only Instance where any attempt wets was made modO to return fire on the part of the miners During time the shooting In many Instances the themen themen men and women pleaded with the tho men outside to have mercy on them but their cries were met with derision and curses curies Our investigation proves con conclusively elusively that no effort had been made to shoot or resist except In the ono one case cash mentioned hut but that nil would have hare been too glad to have surrendered It they had been allowed the opportunity to do so Mr Evans says that tIme the coroners Jury returned a verdict of felonious killing against Cunningham for the kil ling Hug of William Dodon |
