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Show UNIONS FACE JG SUIT FROM MINE MASSACRE COAL COMPANY ! TO ASK COURT ! FOR WAGES 'Men Who Escape Mob I Reach Chicago and Tell Their Stories ;mine owner roiled (Claims Firm Dares Not En-I En-I ter County to Examine Wrecked Property CHICAGO. Jum 2S. (By the As- I aoclated Press) Men who successful- ly ran tho gauntlet cf bullets In the Hevrln. m.. mine war and then eluded elud-ed strike sympathizers who patrolled the roads near Herrin. arrived here Tuesday Tho refugees told their experiences ex-periences to attorneys for the Soulh-j ern Illinois Coal company and the evidence will be usd by tho company ln suits it expects to bring against the United Mln? Workers of Amerlcu and the county of Williamson lo re-co re-co er na mages. J Several of the half dozen men arriving ar-riving were cupiiycd ai the Herrin mine last Thursday morning bv striking strik-ing miners and .-trlke sympathiser. Their comrades were -hoi down when the captors indicated a barbed wire fence and told theni to "run for It." Fred Macey. a full-blooded Cherokee Chero-kee Indian employed at the Herrin I mine, told the attorneys his slory of ! running ihe gauntlet of fire 1MN W X 11 I "They say run lo fence." he explair.-1 1 cd. "They raise gun?. Me know what j come .Me xig z.ig this way, that way. Me dodge bullcti jump fence." Macey came through without a scratch. After escaping the first hail I of bullet, lu said he hid In a thicket while armed men beat the brush near him In search of any who had escaped Vorhon Wilson, of Battle Creek, f Mich., ,i carpenter was wounded in tho j shoulder wnen ;ic tried to escape through the bbrbdd wire fence at the i command of his captors. He also hid for several hours, then attempted to : make his way ou'. of the I errln flir t:'icT As he crossed floidi a short i distance from Herrin. he s n 1 a farmer i saw him and took a pot $ho! at hlin, hut missed. Thereafter he hid in thickets In the daytime an I traveled at night until out ot the danger -one.' .He arrived in Chicago Sunday with his i wounded shoulder still unattended. Ho , was sent to a hospital here-mki'M.m; here-mki'M.m; 'pi i;s Another man sa.,1 that whil- he was biding in a thicket an airplane which . he believed was being qscd by the strikers, flew only a tew fee; abOVO hts head. Some of the refugees said they had appealed lo th sheriff at Marion, III., lor protection and asserted that he had told them thai they had better j leave tow n In a hurry. Others told I of hiding tor hours in thickets white watching autos illicrl with miners pu- tro! the roads in search of employe of Ihe mine who hut escaped. I Follctt J Bull of the firm of Bull. j Lytlon and Olsoiv counsel for tho j Southern Illinois Coal company, said he had sent a man. a former resident i of Williamson county, to Herrin to .learn If the wounded men In the hospital hos-pital there could be removed. WOUNDED IN DANGER "This man. whose name I dare not divulge, Informed me that it would , be follv to attempt it " Mr. Bull said. i These men are In danger of attack at the hospital Certain death awaits them if they uttempt to leave. Wo do I not dure to send one of our own representatives rep-resentatives to Herrin. " cannot even try to identuy the dead. car fori ,the wound,., I or make a survey of the! I damage done at the mine." oo |