GHASTLY CRIMES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 432, 24 June 1922, Page 5

GHASTLY CRIMES.

MASSACRES IN ILLINOIS. FIVE WOMEN KILLED, MINERS’ BODIES THROWN INTO LAKE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Jane 24, 9.10 a.m. NKW YORK, June 23. The lale.-i reports. from Herrin, Illinois, show dial the massacre was more ghastly oven than at llrsl believed. The bodies of live women, some -with miauls in their arms, were found beaten to death. One refugee declares that he saw 15 miners’ bodies thrown into a lake with rocks round their nock.-. Others, tied together, were dragged behind a motor-ear down a rocky road and then allowed to lie in (he hot sun with their wounds unattended to, and they were refused water. Two thousand troops have been mobilised in Chicago and Springfield ready to proceed in the minefields in ease of renewed outbreaks.—A. and N.Z. cable. MEN BEATEN TO DEATH. MUCH BRUTALITY SHOWN, NEW YORK, Juno 23, The mine war near Herrin, Illinois, will probably go down as the most brutal debauchery in the history of Labour conflicts. Hundreds of union minors, inflamed by liquor, marched off their prisoners after the non-union labourers at the mine, had surrendered, and beat many of them to deaHi. They hung others and cut them to pieces. Dynamite was used to blow up many thousands of dollars’ worth of property. Innocent men were corralled and butchered under the most horrible circumstances. Probably (50 men were killed, and more than 20 so seriously wounded that they are not expected to live. The union miners’ wives followed the murderers, applauding their acts. Spectators declare that the carnival of blood and destruction went on for more than a day.—A. and N.Z. cable.