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In Illinois, meantime, coal trouble of another sort had festered in the bituminous fields. For 24 hr., 100 United Mine Workers were besieged in Mine 43 of Peabody Coal Co. near Harrisburg. When the coal company imported rival United Miners from another county, Progressive Miners started a small war. Along a 15-mi. front they laid siege to Mine 43, blew up a railroad bridge, cut power lines, shot away 5,000 rounds of ammunition, wounded twelve men behind the mine enclosure.
Off to the Midwest the shocked President packed eloquent Donald Richberg, onetime Chicago attorney and NRA general counsel. In Springfield, Ill. Counsel Richberg held a long conference with Governor Horner, emerged shaking his head to say: "The problem will take much patience and time."
Sullivan County, Ind. was put under martial law when co-operative miners battled unionists.