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Show Ten Members M Are Badly Infured Attack Home of West Virginian and Battle Resulted Five Hundred Hun-dred Shots Fired. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Nov. 22. A community across the river from York-vllle York-vllle was the scene of a fatal feud between be-tween lhe family of John Wallace and the Curry brothers. Mrs. Wallace fired into a crowd that was attacking her house and fatally wounded Thomas Curry. The Curry crowd then seized the brother of Mrs. Wallace, hound him hand and foot and laid his head upon a log. One of the Curry brothers was about to decapitate the boy when Wallace Wal-lace fired into tho crowd and dispersed them. The Curry crowd later resumed their attack, when Mrs. Wallace was shot twice. It is estimated that about COO shots were exchanged and that ten members of the mob wero badly injured. The Wallaces finally escaped, Mrs. Wallace riding to Loulsla, Ky.. and giving tho alarm, and Wallace escaped to York-vllle. |