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) THE OMAHA PEK: SATURDAY. JUNE 21. 1022. Sour Survivors of Mine Horror Reach Chicago Torn. BWdinp, WiMKyetl Willi 1-Var ami Carrying BucUiot, Men Tell of KxiM'riencc Omah) Itrr I fr4 Wlr. Chii'4. I ii ti .'.'.-Turn. bleed ing, wild ryot uith tear and wild an assortment of biulshot in thrir hack', ("Mir urvivor of the Herrin mine maji're reached Chicago to il.iy. They had slipped out throtiigh the death cordon by rrawhtiK through liru-h, swimming rivers and riding on the rods of f rctjjht trains. liny wen' utterly exhausted, hav ing gone without tooil ami only such water at they could lap up from sink- hole, as iliry feared to o near any habitation They told a heartbreaking story of brutality and charged that the law officers of the flcrrin district are hand in glove with the assassins, all union miners, m the work ot kill ing and maiming men who had been employed in the mines. Attack Carefully Planned. Joseph Sodter, who has eight buckshot in his hack, says the mat nacre was carefully planned and the intention was not to permit any of the men in the mines to escape alive and tell what happened. Sodter and two other were told they would be escorted to a point ol safety. Their enptors took them in an nutomoliile to a place about a m:!e from Her rin. There their passage was blocked by a car drawn across the road. The driver got out, osten sibly to see if he could move it, but ran into the bushes. Instantly a fusillade began from men con cealed in the bushes. Sodter man aged to drop out of the car and crawl into the bushes on the oppo site side of the road. Then he ran until he came to a river. He swam across, with pursuers peppering him with shotguns. There was a call for rifles, but, by the time they were brought up,, he had reached the Pimples Keep Young Men Down! They" Make Women, Too, a PunleJ How S.S.S. Stops Skin Eruption PositiYsly. 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As they mounted the tencc, all wrre shot, falling upon the barbed wire. 1 heir murderers continued shooting into the bodies until they were perfectly limp. Meanwhile, the brother Klk called Uernard to one side, put him in a flivver and drove Mm away while the rest of the gang were finishing up the men on the fence. Murderers Were Foreigners. "Mot of the murderers were for eigners," said Neman), "I saw very few white men among them. The women, too, all appear to be, dark skinned foreigners and they were more savage than the men, if that is possible. "I left three of my buddies hang ing on the fence, and 12 of them were shot down before they could reach the fence. While I was concealed in some dense shrubbery, I saw about 20 miners searching through the woods for refugees. They wrere all foreigners, talking in a forrign lan guage, hut I could make out the word 'scab.' I looked across the prairies in front of me and I could see men be ing 'pegged' from the woods on each side of the open space. I saw at least seven men shot down in that space. "I followed through the woods to the north and came upon" three men hanging from a tree. Their bodies were riddled with bullets and their faces were mashed and cut until they were just masses of bloody bones and flesh. In another small clump of woods I saw three more men hang ing, all terribly mutilated. An elderly man named Schclpert, who saved me because we were both Elks, guided me through the woods and, although we met parties of gun men, they did not molest us, because I was under Schelpert s care. He finally conducted me to a water tank and I got on the rods of a freight train that stopped there, reached St. Louis and from there came home. It was hell." Mine Operators to Ask Damages First Test Suit Under Recent Coronado Decision to Be Started at Cincinnati. Chicago, III., June 23. (By A. P.) Legal action for the recovery of damages sustained by the Southern Illinois Coal company as the result of the mine riots at Herrin and the destruction of the company's strip mine there will be started imme diately against the United Mine Workers of America' and the county of Williamson in behalf of the com pany and the families' of its dead employes, F. W. Bull, attorney for the coal company, announced today. The suit against the United Mine Workers, the attorney pointed out, will be the first test suit under the recent Coronado decision by the United States supreme court holding labor organizations liable for dam ages. The suit against the United Mine workers will be filed in the federal court at Indianapolis. Doctor Leaves on Tour in Radio-Equipped Auto Dr. J. D. Houston, accompanied by his wife and son, Dan, 9, left Fri day morning for a three-months' au tomobile tour through Yellowstone park, the Rocky mountains a.nd to his ranch in Wyoming. 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The fleeing men thereupon wrre shot down, bratrji to death and one was known to have been hanged.' Although a number of the min ers shuddered at the slaughter, all say "they got jut what they de served." Cry Goes Up. As soon as the 4-1 strip employes surrendered yesterday morning a cry went up for the lives of the captives, persons who say they were eye witnesses, state. The cooler element, however, advised that the prisoners be marched into town, paraded before the towns people and then sent away. The cooler element marched just behind the prisoners, who were at the head of the procession, and the disorderly element flocked behind and beside them. There were cries of "beat it" which grew into a chorus, but the leaders withstood the demand un til they arrived at a wooded sec tion about three miles from here. There the clamor increased and the mob pressed around the fear stricken prisoners, some of whom mumbled, apparently in prayer. Fight to Death. Witnesses say the leaders, feel ing unable longer to resist the crowd's clamor, said to the pris oners: I'Yes, you'd better beat it." Then followed the massacre. How many of the prisoners re alized that it was to be a flight of death cannot be known. Between the road and the woods on the right side, there was a barbed wire fence. Most of the prisoners, probably thinking vague ly that it would be something to have the fence between them and the mob, began climbing through the fence. They had difficulty with their suitcases. There were shouts of: Scurry Into Woods. "Drop your suitcases, you won't need them," which appealed to the humor of the jeering mob. Most of the prisoners dropped their suitcases and scrambled through and scurried into the woods. The shooting was under way and the killing was on throughout the woods.' Men were running and dodging and the crowds were fol lowing and shooting at them. When one fell, the crowd closed in and fired a volley into the prostrate form. The throats of two were cut. - As the men were shot down, crowds gathered and watched them breathe their last, jeering and scoffing. One of the wounded men to whom the correspondent talked in the woods, said he was a steam shovel worker. The men who crowded about him said: "JTou ought to know better than to try to take the bread from a union man's mouth." Blood Lust Satiated in Illinois Mine Field (Continued From Page One.) citizens still brought in reports of bodies lying around the country; but, through all of it, there was no way of fixing a definite number. In the wounded .list, there were 16 in the Herrin hospital, three reported in the Carbondale hospital, and a number of others union striking miners believed to be lying in their homes. There was little question lakes and seashore that the esa.t number of dead never will be known, A doini or so were believed ut be si the bottom of a pond. No one termed inclined to drag the pond. No searching parties have been organised to see bodies in the woods. In Cold Blood. All reports, whether from miners or from strikebreaker or mine op erators aurre that the killings really were a massacre that the victims were shot iojn in cold blod after they had put up their nag and ur rendered thrmselves and their arms to the attacking forces. Many per nit in the count y uphold the slaughter a a right lul act of judg ment. Citizens gathering on street corners last night and today laughed and joked over the alfair and proud ly boasted that "Some of these days people will realize that it doesn't pay to try to break a strike in William son county." Jn the morgue women and chil dren, as they paiscd through, com mented on the accuracy of the shoot ers who brought dewn these victims. Men who opriilv boast that they were in the attacking force related with apparent pride the stones of what in war times would be called brutality. The story of the attack on C. K, McDowell, strike break ers' superintendent, was related by many. McDowell, with only one leg, was beaten to death with stones before being riddled with bullets, ac cording to persons who say they were eye witnesses. Stoned to Death. He refused to march with the other prisoners, who were tied to gether, and told to run down the road between lines of attackers who poured buckshot, ri tic and pistol bul lets into them as they fled, saying that he'd just as soon die where he was. He died where he was said to have made this statement. The mine safe was looted and one man, with some $1,500 in bills, stood with a semi-circle of men around him and dealt out the bills, like cards, according to wounded men who were there. The correspondent saw men wounded almost to death kicked around in the scorching sun in dusty roads. He saw men chased through helds like rabbits by shouting per sons who opened lire, once catching him accidentally between two fires. Surrounded by armed men, lie saw a knife plunged into the throat of a wounded man who in his dviug breath gasped a plea: "In the name of my mother, in the name of your mother, m the name of our God, give me water," only to receive laughter and such jibes as:- "Where you're going you won't see water," as a reply. Mothers carried babies into the morgues and up to piles of bodies in the roads with such remarks as "Take a look at what your papa did, kid." No Word of Sympathy. He watched a man walk to the bed side of a dying man and curse him and jeer at him as he breathed his last. Through it all, although the fight area was traversed a dozen times, there was not a word heard of sympathy for a ictim. The senti rA Public Concert Every Evening on the Mezzanine Floor by Gus Edwards and his Singing Band. They also entertain in the Main Restaurant during lunch eon and dinner. You are cordially invited to hear them. 350 Cool Rooms 350 Cool It Saves You Money- T N T On your Fleet of Trucks or Your Pleasure Car. ment seruied to be that strikebreak ers deserved slaughter and that these had received it. l-w of the dead could be positively identified. Most of them lud been rifled of all effects. After lying piled in the morgues yesterday, ihry were rutblarued lat night. Scores watched the processes all through the night, making unprintable remarks about the bodies. The order of Governor mall last night to hold I.IKX) men of the mil itia in readiness in Chicago, was greeted on the Mreet here with sar castic comment. A member of the police force told the correspondent that if troop were sent here, he'd "take the night police force and clean them mil." Inquiry developed that he was the night police force himself. "Nothing to Report." Orticial statements were scarce. Everyone talked of the fight and many freely related their own expe rience"., yet none even knew of it, officially. The killed simply "dropped dead," it was explained, when official statements were asked. No one was murdered, it was said officially. It was remarked that there had been 27 killings here since January 1. All that remains of the Lester mine is a heap of ashes, for it was set on fire shortly after the attackers cap tured it. Early today Sheriff Thaxton told newspaper men that the situation was well in hand and there was no dan ger. That was the only official state ment in the early hours of the day. Walioo Business Man Refuses Filing for Governorship Lincoln. June 23. In an irojiical .statement filed with D. M. Amsbcrry, secretary of state, today, L. E. l'larek, Halioo, for whom friends filed a petition to place his name on the democratic ballot for the gover norship, declines to accept the filing or make the race. 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There is a certain company in the city of Omaha that is selling this medicine which is pending investi gation for infringing upon our rights. The final out come of ths matter will be made known to the public in a few days. Respectfully, MR. AND MRS. E. R. LEEPER. f i lend whom I a!as hrl.! irrin and attrition." s4d M men i ine r.uwt oe i jhs mit formed of the assassination of l Marshal Wilson in LomMii. Ansitry in Belfast. Belta.t. June ,M.-(By A P- The situation line was one of great anxiety today owing to the high state of feeling over the assassination of I'ield M.tr.lul Wilson in London. Special precaution were taken in th disturbed areas, but the military and police were forced to tire on inoh several times, The casualties by mid fotriinoii were six wounded. The area mainly affected is situated twreu GrosveiK-r street ind Falls road, iiiiully every member of the Ul ster government is under police pro lerlioii. 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