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SEVEN MEN KILLED
IN COAL NINE war
Nest Virginia Sheriff Falls In
Battle With Mob.
SON TAKES HIS OFFICE
Heavily Armed Band Of Miners From
Across Pennsylvania Line Attacks
From Ailis-Beiieve More Are Dead.

Wellsburg. W. Va, July lS.-Sheriff
H II. Duvail and six men are Known
- have been killed and large mum
,er wounded in night ar the Clifton
mine of lie kichiand Coal company,
II Brooke county, ten miles lfon
Wellsburg. near the pennsylvania
state line. The dead were brought 10
Weilsburg and the wounded taken 10
Wheeling hospitals.
Deputy sheriffs and state policemen
are searching the wooded hills around
fhe Clifton mine for DO IL II moro
men believed 10 have b ,en killed IN
the attack. Sheriff Duvall and the SIX
unidentified dead have been Drought
10 Wellsburg, but the author slt> eN'
press belief That others loSl their lives
Fire, ignited by the attackers, Was eX
tingui>neu after the mine tipple ana
part of the tracks from the moth OF
the pit had been burned.
Thomas H. Duvaii, who was WIZ
his father. the sheriff, when lie "as
killed. WAS elected SherlH by tht
Brooke count court. He al once tooB
charge of the situation, with the as
Sis1ance of sheriff Clouse. of Wheel
ing. and Il body Of state p"iltt.
Young Duvali, who was with III:
father at the mine when the fight toof
place, ccom,&tnied the body Of Th'
dead sheriff 10 their home here.
There had been rumors for son
time that the mine was To be attacked
because il had been operating non
union" said Duvall, and we heard TIN
attack was 10 be made soon. I,in
sheriff had detail of men al TIL
mine. but he gathered up number
of others here in Wellsburg, and w
went OFT To the mine. The repor
WAS that ii big crowd of men were OF
their way from over the state line II
PENNSYLVANIA. and after he reached
the mine the sheriff placed guard
around the property.
Nothing happened until about day
break. when firing began from The tok
of the hill above The mine opening
We replied To the fire, and the Sherlr
ordered the men TO move up the nil
They Responded. firing as they Went
The sheriff reached the top before al
was killed I saw him a f,W minute:
before and he was hurrying after &
small part of the mob. l suppose h.
Mas killed shortly after that. because
| found his body there when | can't
up.
THE mob seemed 70 be armed with
all kinds Of guns, and had ahundan
ammunition. because they kept shoot
ing. even after we had broken thei
line. and the were running over thu
hill.
Some of them, evidently, got in be
hind us, because they exploded {
charge of dynamite under the tipple
and it was blown up. l think ii caugh
fire and was burned to the ground, al
though / don't know. We were bus,
trying to break up that mob.
Il don't know how many of tn.
men who ATTACHED us were Killed
There We're at least eight, for l an
sure thar / saw many bodies. Ther
may be others out in the wood
through which they ran when we Wen
I'D the hill | know lot of them wer
wounded, but, of course, it will taxi
some time 10 get the exact number
as the less seriously wounded Weri
helped away by friends.
There must have been 300 or 4Os
in the mob, while. Sheriff Duyall hat
not more than about twenty men will
him.
I'VE succeeded in capturing some O.
the. men in the party-nine l believe
and we brought them here undo
guard | don't know who they an
yet. None of the dead stranger ha
been identified"