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On the 25th, Governor Morgan again asked Washington for help,

so President Harding sent General Harry Bandholz to investigate.

He interviewed leaders on both sides and told Mooney and Keeney that despite stepping back,

he held them responsible for what he saw as the miners' excesses.

Bandholz issued them an ultimatum.

These are your people.

I'm going to give you a chance to save them, and if you cannot turn them back,

we are going to snuff them out like that.

This will never do.

There are several million unemployed in this country now,

and this thing might assume proportions that would be difficult to handle.

Keeney and Mooney urged the marching miners to turn back by appealing to their patriotism

to obey the federal government.

By the 27th, thousands of miners had agreed, and were waiting for trains to take them home.

But on that very same day, Chaffin sent 290 police into the town of Cloteer to carry out arrests.

A group of miners ambushed them before they arrived.

On the 28th, rumors spread that police had shot women and children in the firefight,

and angry miners who'd planned to go home now returned to the march.

Some historians say that Chaffin's raid was a case of terrible timing,

while others argue that it was calculated to provoke the miners.

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