Salt Lake Herald | 1895-02-24 | Page 1 | An End at Last

A END AT LAST DEATH OF FOUR 31E3T SETTLES ALL TROUBLE A ICentucky Sociable the Rcsnlt ot IVlLicli Will Doubtless Prove Satisfactory Sat-isfactory to All Save the Participants Partici-pants S Sargeant Ey Feb 23 News has just reached here that three men were shot to death and a fourth mortally wounded In a fight between the Smith I Cox factions near Osborns gap Dickinson Dickin-son county Va Wednesday afternoon last The men Involved in the diffi culty had long been regarded as terrors in the neighborhood and for years the families have been deadly enemies According to the best information obtainable ob-tainable Rob and Sam Smith had been at the gap and were on their way home when they met Ben and Lem I Cox on the road about two miles from I town All four were under the Influence In-fluence of liquor The Smiths drew revolvers re-volvers and commanded their enemies to surrender Instead of which the Cox boys jerked out weapons Then a general fight was begun and lasted for nearly half an hour When the smoke cleared away Rob and Sam Smith and Ben Cox were found lying dead on the road and Lem Cox is so badly wounded that his death is expected ex-pected hou sly The killing of these men puts an end to the feud that has long been prominent in criminal clr des in this section of the country < i