Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-13
SIX KILLED N A RAID.
Terrible Result Of Battle Be-
tween Officers and Kentucky
Mountaineers.
Shooting Occurred Near Middles-
boro at Turner'S Saloon,
Noted for Murders.
Believed That Half a Dozen OF
the Wounded Will Die Of
Injuries.

MidIesboro, KY, Feb. 13.-Six are
dead and as many more dying as the
result of BATTLE between officers from
Middlesboro and mountaineers. The
battle, which was desperate one, was
fought between 4 and o'clock yester-
day afternoon at Lee Turner's Quarter
House" saloon, three and half miles
from Middlesboro.
Last month Turner had some mules
and other goods levied on for debt.
and q few nights ago he with others
went to Virginia, where the property
was taken, secured what was formerly
his, and returned to the Quarter
House"
Yesterday Deputy Sheriff VIII
Thompson summoned posse OF ten
or fifteen men for the purpose of ar
resting Turner at his saloon. The
Louisville and Nashville refused to
convey the officers to the saloon, and
they footed it thru the moutains. Tur-
ner had heard that an attempt would
be. made to arrest him, and he and his
men, fifteen in number, gave the officers
a warm reception. The saloon is we'll
suited for an attack like this. 1t is
built of huge logs and is surrounded by
a thirty-foot fence, in which loopholes
are cut so that the inmates can shoot
at outsiders.
Turner's surrender was demanded.
His reply was a volley. Charley Cecil
of Middleboro was riding a pony in
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one, who is believed to have been Mike
Welch, Turner's bartender, raised
window of the log house and shot Cecil
who fell dead. Instantly the murderer
fell back, pierced by a half dozen bull
lets.
Then the firing began in earnest. The
officers. scattering and hiding behind
trees and rocks, poured a calling fire
into the mountain fortress. In the fight
John Doyle, former railroad man, was
badly wounded. perhaps fatally. and
Simon Bean, another, exrailroader shot
in the hand. The. town men gathered
closer around Turner's place while
shots whizzed around them. AS soon
as Cecil was killed his companions de-
termined to burn Turner's rendezvous
and in the midst of the battle man
applied a torch to an exposed side of
the building. A few minutes later the
building was in flames.
Several of the mountaineers came
to the windows and were Immediately
shot down. The posse surrounded the
barricade, determined to let none es-
cape. Lee Turner and some of his
friends. however, in some way es-
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eight miles from Middlesboro Several
of his men, 1t is thought, persisted in
the flames.
1t is said the posse lost more than
one man and that some of the Middles-
boro fighters may now be lying dead or
dying in some of the hollows surround
ing the Quarter House."
Some of the deputies came in last
night with their rifles over their
shoulders. They state that half of the
men are still at the Quarter House"
and that they will return with rein
forcements. 1t is feared that the trouble
lis not at an end. Turner, who has
killed several men. is not one who is
easily cornered, and 1t is believed that
he will organize band and avenge the
death of his friends and the burning
of his saloon.
Turner, the proprietor of the saloon.
graduated at Rose Hill. Va. He was a
brother of Wild Bill Turner, who was
killed several years ago. The Quarter
House" is widely known because of the
number who have been killed there
Placing the days number of deaths at
six the score is now fifty-nine killed
and thrice that number wounded.
The body of an unknown man found
III the ruins of the burned Hotel Ven
dome at Minneapolis has been partly
identified as that of Nj. d. Akers, of