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Show CORONER ENDS EXHIBITION OF MUTILATED DEAD , SLAIN 'SCABS' I TO BE BURIED IN RUDE BOXES f 1 Bloodstained Community Complacent Over Disbanding Disband-ing of National Guard FUNERAL IS HELD Thousands Walk in Cortege of Union Miner at Herrin HLRRIN Juno 24 Hie United S'uto government took hand III the Investigation of the mine warfare 'or-! rors ln-rv tonight bj si-nilln.'i a department depart-ment of juMleo Investigator who col-1 lected Information from both union of-lieials of-lieials .in.) wounded men who are mi-I dcrgoing treatment In the hospital here. BY .1 AMF.S L KILU.ALLUN (I liter national News Service) HERRIN Ills.. June 24. Conscious of hnv ing done no wrong in but' :herngl at least twenty human beings perhaps per-haps twice that number bloodstained! Herrin tonight settled back complac-j ently and smiled over the news that the stute of Illinois will not send troops, Into their domain Thoy "knew " They had been quietly asserting all along that the authorities wouldn't send any troops to their dlstrKt. Iti might start somehlng." they lntlmai-1 cd. The self confident community, given somewhat to boasting, spent tho eve- ii 1 nig much as they did any other Saturday Sat-urday night Tho men stood around in groups and g"--ilp'd . i browsed In 'the numerous "soft drink" establishments establish-ments where a dubious liquid wa.i dispensed at 16 and 2& cents a swal-jlow; swal-jlow; the women and kiddies sat on the front porches or took in the picture pic-ture shows. The town's big "show" which has been running for two days, a the morgu the "'exhibition" of the 'dead "scabs' was closed on orders of the coroner. BLAMES NON-UNION MEW During the day, the war district was visited by Qocrnor Len Smalls mill- ltar commission headed by Major I General Milton J Foreman, and was; lalso visited by Fronk Farrington. the 'radical president of the Illinois miners, who, while sincerely regretting and deploring the tragic happenings here. blamed the non-union men as Instlga-i tors of the hostilities. It was on the strength of General Foreman's report re-port that Governor Small decided that' the troops under mobilization ln Chl-;casro Chl-;casro be not sent to this district Late In the afternoon, the entire city of Herrin and thousands of other 'persons for miles around attended the picturesque funeral of George Henderson Hender-son strlklm; union man the first victim vic-tim of tho massacre of Herrin. Led b a band, more than 5.000 per-r.ona per-r.ona on foot and In automobiles, mada their way through the main thoroughfares thorough-fares of Herrin to the little cemetery on tho outskirts of tho city s, il l M RHOI'KKSION. Immediately following the band came several thousand miners, wolk-ing wolk-ing eoa'.lestt in the hot sun. their heads Lowed solemnly and marching four east N"' o sound tjfuld bs heai 1 aS the funeral procession wemb-d Its way through the town. The business houses were closed. Just behind the marchers came the white hearse carrying the body Tho pall U'..n m .1. alb . vi and with v.hlti gloves on their hands, marched besido the hoar.se men came the long line of automo-i biles, the last of which wuk out of. sight of the sye along the straight road leading to Herrin. In the machines were miners and their entire families. Among thohti In the procession were Mayor Face and Stale Sonator W. J Bneed, DECEASED liXTOLIiICB. At City cemetery, wberu the bod) was laid to rest, local officials SX-toletl SX-toletl the il. ceased IlendTSon, affectionately affec-tionately known In ll- rrtn ur "Joodv was 43 yearn old. single and a veteran of the world war where he served ln Erranos with th Canadian forces. Ths decision of the govorDur not to send the mobilized national guards to th war .on was hased on the rocom-naendatioll rocom-naendatioll ": Major General Foreman TROOPS NOT NERKED. Qeneral Foreman summoned Mayor a r Pace and Hugh Willis, leader of the 10.000 union miners ln this district dis-trict to a conference In the Ly-Mur Hoti I ai which the situation was gone over in detail. Mayor race and Willis assured the! general thai no further trouble was Intended or expected and declared that the sending f soldlor.s would bo "unnecessary "un-necessary and Inadvisable." Willis "guaranteed'' that there would be no fr.sh outbreaks The general left for other paru oi the war area without consulting Sher- (toalLuuc-U on I'ago TvFO.J oo SLAIN 'SCABS' TO BE BURIED IN BOXES t ontinuod from Page One) Iff Melvln Thaxton, who had assured the military authorities as late as Wednesday, Wed-nesday, the i j lf lit before the masFacre. .the troops were unnec eisary and that the local authorities could control the I then menacing situation After rocfhipg General Foreman's report. Governor Small at Waukegan ,.-nnounced that he would order Adjutant Adjut-ant General Carlos Black to demobilize ithc troops General Foreman had ad- vised thai there would be no necessity jfor troops unless outside workmen were again brought into the district. Responsible citizens In Herrln agreed, he said, to report to the adjutant general gen-eral or Governor Small In tho event of further trouble BLAMES GOAL COMPANY, Farrlngton, the Illinois miners' union un-ion chief, who Is now In the trouble rone, asserted In an Interview that he deplored the Herrln massacre but contended con-tended that hostilities were precclpltat-led precclpltat-led by the action of the Southern II- llmnl.H f'onl romnnnv In worklnc th1r mlne with non-union men. He said the operators "acted against the best advice that could be given them." He declared that tho mine guards irtartod tho trouble, when, on Wednesday afternoon, aft-ernoon, they fired on a group of miners, min-ers, killing two, both of whom, he said, wore unarmed. The sixteen men whoso bodies lie In the smelly morgue will be burled tomorrow to-morrow night, Coroner William Mc-Cowa Mc-Cowa announced on his arrival here this evening from Marlon An Inquest will be held prior to the burial which will take place In Potter's field. BOXES FOR COFFINS. Crude wooden boxes have been built for use as caskets. Tho closing of the morgue late this afternoon greatly disappointed the morbid public Thousands of persons have Come from miles around to view the lacerated bodlea half clothed In their white shrouds. Townspeople have passed the bodlea time and again poking at the wounds and commenting Jokingly on the appearance of tho dead men. Men held back the white cloth covering the faces of the victims so as to permit the wives and children to witness the spectacle. The heat today was intense and electric fans wore installed. The list of known dead was brought up to 24 late today when Howard Hoffman, of Huntington, Indiana, died at the Herrln hospital. There still are fifteen wounded at the hospital, all of whom, It was said, would probabl recover- |