INDUSTRIAL WAR.

Grey River Argus, 26 June 1922, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL WAR.

THE HERRIN BATTLE. WORKERS CAPTURE OF MINE. NEW YORK. June 23. Latest reports reaching the military authorities estimate that 35 were killed in the mine riots gif Herrin. There has been heavy damages to property indicating Hint dynamite, was used’. The workers on strike stormed a stockade at tho mine manned by guards employed by a detective agency. The bodies of five women, some with infants in their arms, were found beaten to death. One refugee declares that he saw 15 minors’ bodies thrown into the lake, with rocks round their necks. Others were tied together and dragged behind a motor car. Hundreds of miners marched the sdnekade prisoners, after the. surrender, boating some to death. Dynamite was used to blow up many thousand dollars’ worth of property. Innocent men were corralled and butchered under the most horrible circumstances. Probably 50 men were killed and more than 20 were so seriously injured that they are not expected to live. Union miners’ wives followed the murderers applauding the acts. Spectators declare that the carnival of blood and destructions went on for more than a day.