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Show OMINOUS IN WEST VIRGINIA Strike Believed on Again; Fear Present Pres-ent Lull Foretells Coming Storm Charleston, W. Va June 10 With Industrial war again declared In West Virginia, tho sonata coal strike Investigating In-vestigating committee today confronted confront-ed H situation critical and compiled ed. Word from tho Iso'nted sections of Paint creek nnd Cabin creek that tho strike was again on drifted Into Charleston from half a dozen sources, sourc-es, and representatives of mine open ators, miners nnd sthte officials sought In vain for definite word from the little lit-tle camps along the creeks. With tho New river district, a few miles away from the creekB nwnltlng only the match to set off a conllngrn-t'on conllngrn-t'on of excitement, the state otllclnls today watched the situation with fear and trembling. For days tho New river riv-er miners havo threatened trouble "lhey number about L',000. Beforo tho case for the operators was commenced the attorneys for the miners were petmlitpd t cnll n 'lumber 'lum-ber of witnesses. W. II AdklnB ssild he paw a group of guards climb the hill niiout Holly Grovo the morning of February S and n few minutes later, ho sn'd, shot" wero fired from the hill Into tho mln ers' tents In Holly Grovo. Attack on Town Described Zed I). Zeller, who wai :n Holly Grove when tho shooting began repeated re-peated tho story of the clash, awj Qulnner Biggs, another Holly Grove miner, described tho attack on tlio town from tho nrmored train. A. H Hontiker, n merchant of liol- ly Grove, said ho was arrested by fifteen fif-teen mino guards and taken from His house Ho hald allowed miners to erect tents on his property, ho said after they had been ejected from Urn company's houses. Guards he declared, declar-ed, had dumped the furniture of forty or fifty minors on his land and ho had allowed them to remain. Elizabeth Fish, a pretty, ollvo skinned skin-ned mountain girl, said she and May Claypool, In company with another girl, were met by nine mine guards, who ordered them to wade the creek, enforcing tho order with their guns One of tho girls tried to remove her shoes and stockings before entering the water, which at that point was waist deep. Drove Girls Into Water "She got one shoo off," said tho girl "when the guards told htr she wals too darn slow and drovo her in the water." Several miners told of their experiences experi-ences with mine guards. Mu'-h ' mutative testimony as tq conditions I In the field beforo hnd nfter the strike I was pressnted by several miners. C ! I. Wo ''man, a fltnblo boy, said that cv ' system was mainly respon-3ib respon-3ib i . tho trouble. II "If jou'll take the guards out of i there," ho said, "the men and oper-( ators would bo able, to get together Mr. Workman said the guards were still at work on Cabin creek. j C, R. Shaw of Parkersburg said h |