KENTUCKY GUN FIGHT
COALFIELD STRIKE TRAGEDY FOUR KILLED, TWENTY INJURED Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright MJDDLESBORO (Kentucky), April 15. (Received April 16, at 10.60 a.m.) Tragedy again grimly overshadowed Kentucky’s soft coal fields this morning when four men were killed and about 20 others wounded in a serious gun battle in which machine-guns wore used following an attempt by the C. 1.0. United Mine Workers to organise the labourers at Forkridge, where the mines have been operating during the work stoppage of the union coal mines. Fifty carloads of union miners approached the mine early in the morning, but wore stopped by guards. Fierce lighting then broke out. The dead include C. W. Rhodes, president and general manager of the company, K. W. Silvers, president-treasurer, and also a deputy sheriff and one unionist.
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Evening Star, Issue 23861, 16 April 1941, Page 6
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