The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-04-22
FATAL BATTLE
Near WEIGH, W. Va, DescTib-
cd BY Louisa Witness.
Jack Fagg Was Present When One Of
These n. & W. Shooting
ScTapes Occurred.

II you are ordered to get out Of
hotel located up the Norfolk q
Western railroad don't stand upon
the order of your going. but go at
once. Don't hesitate or handy
words with the landlord--in this
case it was a landlady. Mr. Jones
don't ask for his front name, he
didn't have time to mention it,
not only hesitated but was fool
enough to return with several glass
es of Dutch courage to back him
up. Jones had gone into the Club
House of the Pocahontas Smokeless
Coal & Coke Co., and was acting
real naughty at the breakfast table,
The club keeper, a woman named
Click, ordered him out at the point
of a pistol. He returned, and we
will let one OF our townsmen. Jack
Fagg, tell the rest:
Il shore thought the bar had me
today. While taking. or waiting rath-
er. for an order in the Pocahontas
Smokeless Coal q Coke Co.'S store
at Hemphill, one-half a mile below
Welch, the d--dest racket broke
out right near the store in the
eompany's club and boarding house.
and when the smoke OF battle had
cleared away old man Jones--I thin
his name is Charles--was dead, with
two bullets in his anatomy, his SON,
about 22, was shot through the
lungs and died in about two hours
in the WEIGH hospital; another son
was shot through the lobe Of his
ear and also in the arm. Mrs.
Click. who runs the Club, had the
whole side of her face knocked off
aud one eye knocked out and il
'fnow in the hospital. and is still un-
conscious THE hospital is just
across Tug river from the scene Of
the shooting.) The is the sam,
woman whose husband was shot ant
killed six months ago by Supt. Bax
ter in self defense. Mr.. Baxter Il
Supt Of the WEIGH Coal Co.. which
is about 100 yards from where tn
trouble occurred.
'The officers say Mrs. Click kill
ed Jones, ST., while Robt Taylor
store manager of the Pocahonta
Company, killed the young Jones
!, Taylor has burnt the wind or par
egorically speaking, proceeded I
separate the atmosphere in tn
direction of Sacramento, Cal. an
! IL he keeps up the gait he startei
' with he will be due there next Fri
day about 1880 P. G. The young
! est Jones boy who was shot throug
! the ear and arm, was reputed I
have gone up the hollow back .
the WEIGH hospital Anyway. tn
a eye-witnesses say that the onl
3 thing they could see was an oblon
/ hole in the atmosphere in the d
rection he started
! Il don't remember much abou
q it; for being of highly nervou
n temperament, during the excitemer
/ tainted and fell off the counte
in bin Of dried apples and the
e did not find me for nearly an houi
4 and after they had thrown both he
/ and cold water on me | came t
and after came to l was uncor
i scious for three-fourths OF an houl
E or until they had anointed m
q throat on the inside several time
e in rapid suction, with a mixture Q
d snakefoot oil and 'sperrets OF fei
menti But | am happy to stat
that am now 80 far recovered a
n to be able to set up and take nc
tice. But the doctor says for fea
d | will have nightmare tonight tha
| had better hang a halter and
{ crupper on my bedpost and be 0
: the safe side. But, honestly, nov
| was skeered.
Your nervous wreck,
JACK FAGG."