REVOLVER BATTLE
TWELVE KILLED IN VIRGINIAN
TOWN.
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{Received May 21. 9 a.m.)
. NEW YORK, 20fch May. The New Ydrk Times states that seven detectives, thres miners, one agitator, and the Mayor were killed in a revolver fight at Matewan, West Virginia. The_ trouble arose from an attempt by detectives to eject from their "frontier homes the families of miners, who were on. strike, and shooting became general. The situation became quiet .early in the night.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 120, 21 May 1920, Page 7
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83REVOLVER BATTLE Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 120, 21 May 1920, Page 7
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