The New York herald., 1922-07-18
SHERIFF is SLAIN
Found, Face Up, Hold
ing Two Guns He
Emptied Into Mob
Attacking Him.
FIGHT LASTS ALLNIGHT
Mine Guards Dynamite
Property to Prevent
Spread of Fire.
43 MEN ARE CAPTURED
Strikebreaker Is Killed in In
vasion of Mines in West
Virginia.
43 MEN ARE CAPTURED

SpecioI Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALr.
WELLsBURo, w. Va, July 17.-Sever
known dead, including Sheriff H. H.
Duval of Brooke county; five seriously
wounded and forty-three prisoners
make up the toll of a battle between
striking miners and the authorities at
the Saledka mine of the Richland Min
ing Company at Cliftonville, five miles
above Wellsburg and approximately
the same distance from the Pennsyl-
vania State line. soon after o'clock
this morning.
All of the dead save the Sheriff fell
in the ranks of the invaders, who
marched during the night from Avella.
Pa, just over the State line. The
slain miners are unidentified foreign
ers. Four Of the invaders and a spe-
cial deputy. Irwin Mozingo. the only
defender with the exception of the
Sheriff to fall, are receiving treatment
in hospitals. The other prisoners are
lodged in the Ohio county Jail at
Wheeling, charged with murder. All
refuse to talk.
1T Is believed two more strikers were
killed and cremated in the burning
tippie. which was fired by the invaders
during the attack. Several wounded
are thought to have been carried away
by the attackers in their retreat after
fight lasting an hour and half.
Eye witnesses tell of seeing at least
two fallen comrades picked up by the
attackers before they disappeared in
the underbrush. The twenty-seven
prisoners were taken during and after
the fight. most of them having been
found hiding near the mine.
Three Attacks Repulsed.
The attack came soon after daybreak.
200 to 500. sweeping down from the
brush-covered hillside above the mine
mouth. Ten special guards had been
stationed in the power house and tipple
Those In the tipple. giving ground before
the high powered rifles of the invaders
retreated down the incline and escaped.
Mozingo being the only one wounded.
Three attacks were repulsed by the
guards within the tile walled power
house and after falling In their third at
tack. the invaders poured oil on the
tipple. fired it and retreated into the
woods and underbrush.
Sheriff Duvai and four deputies. who
had taken roundabout course to a posi-
ton several hundred yards behind the
mine mouth. In the hope of cutting off
the attackers. whose presence in such
large numbers was not suspected. were
attracted by the firing at the mine. and
started back.
Duval. according to Scot Hough, one
Of the deputies who accompanied him. in
structed his son and deputy to take
the right wing and Hough and another
the left. with himself bringing UP the
center. In this order they came into
direct contact with the retreating at
tackers. -Four of the invaders were
killed in this encounter and several
taken prisoners. but when the four depu-
ties and their prisoners got back to the
mine mouth, Duval was missing.
He was found few minutes later by
his son, Thomas II. Duval. lying face
up with bullet hole through his head
The ball had entered the forehead. Both
the Sheriffs guns had been taken and
his face was powder burned. He was
shooting with both weapons when last
seen by one>of his deputies.
strfkebreakcr Killed.
Late this afternoon Brooke county
,,tH 70 de Ay,tf Al "
who had participated in the attack.
with they exception of the captured
men. NoSe Of these. mine officials said.
were among those who had been en-
pioyed at the mine and were on strike.
Ono of the dead, however. was a strike-
breaker. He was with the invaders.
The mine. which normally employs
400 men, was reopened less than two
weeks ago, after remaining idle since
the coal strike was declared. Only
nifty men were employed at the timc
Of the attack.
Sheriff Duval received word at Wells
burg Just before 10 o'clock last night
that a band Of armed marchcrs had as
semblcd ut Avella with the expressed
intention of marching on Cliftonville.
He and Deputy George Caldwell left
Immediately for Avella. leaving instruc-
tjons for three other deputies TO follow
Immediately. At Cliftonville II was
found that only the fourteen mine
guards. the mine superintendent, J. c.
Edwards. and the Ave deputy sheriffs
were available to protect the mine.
Efforts to telephone to Wheeling and to
Aveiia proved futile. as the wires were
cut.
Efforts were made to trace the march
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