Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-18
Attack kMadeonNoIl
 Union Mine in ". Va.
Sheriff and Three Other Men Killed Three Men of At lacking Forces Were Wounded and 43 Captur- ed.

Wellsburg, w. a., July 17.-(By the sAs P.)-Four known dead, whose bod les lay in the morgue here tonight, were silent witnesses of the gun fight which ragged for more than an hour at day break around the Clifton mine of the Richland Coal company at CIintonville ten miles away Sheriff H. H. Duvai who led his little, band of deputies against mob, said to have crossed from the union coal field of Pennsylva- mia, was among those dead The oth- l CTS are: Francis Nilich. Monnessen, Pa ---- Crook an unidentified man.
 With Sheriff Duval, when his men pressed battle against the attacking force and. drove them back from the mine. after the tipple had been fired and at least two of the participants had fallen, was his son Thomas He saw his father shot down, the body later being found to contain marks of seven bullets but he continued on with the defenders. Not long afterward, when the fight was over, he.was made sheriff of Brooks county, in his fathers place, 1 by court order
 l Watchers at the mineg were waiting l for the ruins of the tipple burned in the attack to cool before searching for bod- lies of two men believed to be buried ull- der the debris.
 Rumor persisted that the bodies in the morgue by no means represented the to- tai casualties of the fight. but none of l the deputy sheriffs would confirm re- ports that numbers of men had been shot down and their bodies dragged through the woods by their companions. Errors in repeated announcements at the sheriff's office during the day that ! at least seven men had been killed and their bodies brought here were account 1 ed for tonight by an official who said l that men now known to be wounded 1 were at first reported dead
 1 Three wounded men of the attacking | force were in hospitals in Wheeling and 13 others, captured by the deputies in i the battle were in he Ohio county jail not far away. Nine prisoners, three of whom had been shot, were confined ir the Wellsburg jail, seven of this num- Der had been taken i'll the woods around l the Clinton mine late this afternoon by state police, who. 1t was reported to- 1 night were continuing the search. On the other side of the state line four miles away, troopers of the Penn l sylvania state contabulary were or l guard, operating in conjunction witt I the West irglnia forces. It was expected l by the authorities that they would hf
 reinforced by ,25 others from Harris burg.
 Thomas H. Duval. who was in ths I fight with his father. but escaped u9l hurt, was elected sheriff by the count1 court. and, among his first duties, ar | ranged with ". s. Wi1kin prosecuting
 attorney, for a special grand jury to Tn vestigate the fight. He also. conferred | with the coroner for the inquest ant then filed charges of murder against 2 men who. he alleged, took part in tn
 battle Nearly all of them the author
 tiles said, were, from the Cross Creel
 section. just over the border iii Penn
 sylyania.
 Prosecuting Attorney Wilkin. report
 ing to Governor E. F. Morgan. a
 Charleston today. said the situation
 here was "deplorable' For the pres ent it was said. no call will be sent fo
 the National Guard as the authoritie
 felt the situation was safe in the hand ' of Captain White, who has arrived il Il the county with company of state DO .l lice.
 With forty-three prisoners in custody
 three in Wheeling hospitals, Is iii Ohi
 county jail there, and 25 in jail here
 deputy sheriffs armed with 200 "Joh . Doe, warrants charging murder ar
 securing the country as far as the Penn sylvana border and a large force c
 state police and deputies guarding tn striking miners, tent colony at Clifton vile where battle between a sheriff
 force and a large crowd of men toda
 resulted in the deaths of at least fou men and the wounding of others. Tn
 situation in Brooke county was late tc
 night: tense.