| Show SIX MEN tEN KILLED IN KENTUCKY BATTLE BArILE Engagement Between Middlesboro Officials and Mountaineers Was Most Desperate MIB MIDDLESBORO Ky Feh Feb 13 Six Six men are d dead ad and a as many more are as dying is t the e result of ot a battle between officers from Mi and moun moun- The battle which was one of ot the most desperate in the history of mountain w warfare are occurred bet between een 4 arid and 6 6 o'clock Clock last evening g at Lee Turners Turner's Turners Turner's Turners Turner's Turn- Turn ers er's Quarter House saloon three three and anda nd a half miles mlles from Middlesboro Last month some mules and other goods of ot Turners Turner's were levied on In payI payment pay pay- I ment for a debt and a few nights ago I It Jt Is Js alleged the lie Ilie with others went ent to Virginia where the property had been taken secured what was formerly his Ills and returned to the Quarter House Today Deputy Sheriff Wat Thompson s summoned a posse of ten men Inert mentor for tor the purpose of arresting Turner at athis athis athis his saloon The Louisville Nashville railroad refused to convey y the officers to the saloon arid and they walked through the mounts mountains i Turner had heard that a an 1 aU att attempt would be made to arrest him and he and his men fifteen In number gave the officers a a warm reception The I saloon was well suited for an an attack like this It was built o of logs and andas was as surrounded by a foot 30 fence In which loop holes were cut so that the Inmates could shoot at outsiders Turners Turner's surrender was demanded I Ills His reply was a round of shots Charley Chari Char Char- i ley Jey Cecil of ot MI Middlesboro was vas riding a IB apony pony pony In fn plain view of the Turner menI men men I S Someone meone raised a window w of the log house and shot Cecil who fell dead Instantly In the man at the v fell ba back k pierced by half a dozen bullets Then th this the firing beg began n In ea earnest est I The officers scattered anti an hl hiding behind behind be be- hind trees poured a galling fir fire Into the mountain fortress In the fight John Doyle a r railroad d man was shot in the hand The town men gathered closer doser around Turners Turner's place undaunted by bythe bythe the shots which h whizzed aro around n l themAs themAs them As As' soon as Cecil Was as killed d' d his companions com corn determined to burn Turners Turner's rendezvous and in the midst of the battie battle battle bat bat- tle tie a man applied a a. torch to an exposed exposed exposed ex ex- ex- ex posed side o of the building Soon the building was Several of the mountaineers me c came crne to the window and were Immediately shot down The Then n members embers o of the posse surrounding th the barricade were determined to let none escape Lee Turner Lurner and several of at his filep friends s however In s some me manner mariner esI es r I and he js s Is at Mingo Mines eight miles s' s from ili Middlesboro Several of his men p perished lit in the flames All sorts of rumors are float afloat tonight one being that five were killed and that five more perished In Inthe Inthe inthe the flames It Is also believed that the tha posse lost more men toen than one and that some of the Middlesboro fighters may now be lying g de deEd dead q or dying in jn some of the hollows surrounding the Quarter Ho House se Placing P today's number of deaths at six ine nine persons per per- sons ve be beeS bee'S ri killed d th there ther re and and twice that number wounded as asa a a result of the feud c. c |
