INHUMAN ACTS
ATROCITIES BY MINERS GHASTLY HAPPENINGS IN AMERICA. WOMEN BEATEN TO DEATH. By Telegraph.—" Press Assn. —CopyrightAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, June 23. The latest reports from Herrin, where non-unionists guarding the mines were attacked hv strikers, show' that the massacre w a-s even more ghastly than was at first believed. The bodies of five women, some with infant* in their nrnm, were found beaten to death. One refugee declare* that he saw the bodies of fiftexm miners thrown into a lake with rocks tied round their necks. Others were tied together, and dragged behind a motor-car down a rocky road, and then allowed to lie in the hot sun. Their wounds were not attended to, and they were refused water. Two thousand troops have mobilised at Chicago and Springfield, ready to proceed to the minefields in case of renewed outbreaks.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11246, 26 June 1922, Page 7
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