| Show 4 14 DI 20 HURT HURTIN IN GUN BATTLE AT COAL MINE SAT Shooting hooting Occurs In Kentucky Strike Quarrel MIDDLESBORO Ky April 15 AP Four AP-Four Four men were killed eight others were in hospitals and an estimated 15 to 20 received re received received re- re medical treatment early Tuesday after gunfire in this southeast Kentucky soft coal field The dead C. C W W. Rhodes 45 of Middlesboro president president-of of the Fork Ridge Coal company and of the American association association association as as- a combination of soft c coal al mining interests which founded found found- ed Middlesboro E E E. W. W Silvers Mi Middlesboro dl so e president and treasurer of the coal company Bob Robinson Tazwell Tenn a former Tennessee highway pa patrolman Sam Evans Middlesboro a miner minet Patrolman Guy H Harrell a r r e 11 of Middlesboro said the shooting occurred occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc just on the Kentucky side of the Tennessee Kentucky-Tennessee line near this mountain town and followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed a concentration of miners from this county county Bell Bell and adjoining adjoining adjoining ad ad- joining counties where union miners miners miners min min- ers have sought to stop all operations operations operations opera opera- pending settlement of work contract negotiations between the C United ClO-United I United O-United Mine Workers and coal operators of the Appalachian field The bloodshed came with a blast of bullets on a road leading to the Fork Ridge Co Coal l company mine which is about one mile inside inside in inside in- in side the Tennessee line Harrell said motorcades of miners miners miners min min- ers assembled here Monday night and proceeded toward the mine which has worked throughout the stoppage of operations in adjoining adjoining adjoining adjoin adjoin- ing Harlan county subsequent to the expiration of the union oper ator Appalachian contract April 1 Five men were killed in two gunshot affrays in Harlan county on April 1 and 2 as union miner- miner pickets sought to enforce a stoppage stoppage stoppage stop stop- page of ot mining there All Harlan mines since have suspended operations operations operations oper oper- under a truce arrangement sponsored by Governor Keen John John- son Tennessee officers were notified when the automobile and truck truckloads truckloads truckloads loads of men left here Tuesday night in the direction of the Fork Ridge property Harrell said Details Lacking Deputy Sheriff C. C C C. Harmon of Claiborne c co county o u un n t y Tennessee placed the time of the gunfire at about three hours before the day Continued on Page Fall Five Column Three 14 4 Killed 20 Hurt in Clash At Kentucky Mine Continued from Page One shift was to have reported for work at Fork Ridge Harmon said he was unable to determine at once what led to the shooting The wounded were registered at hospitals here as Earl Alley of Balkan Ky shot in left chest serious John Holland Cary Gary Ky shot in right thigh serious Millard Forester Cary Gary shot in left thigh serious Clayton Webb Capito Capita Ky shot in right hip R R. W. W Lawson Bell county sheriffs sheriff's sheriffs sheriff's sheriffs sheriff's sher sher- iffs iff's deputy of Field Ky shot in left arm Alford Smith Rella Ky shot in left leg and foot Walter Polly Arjay Ky shotgun pellets in left side and arm At the Pineville Ky community hospital a man listed as A. A J. J Napier Napier Napier Na Na- pier about 21 a miner of Rella Ky was reported in fair condition condition condition condi condi- tion with a wound in the right knee Harrell said he lie understood that thata a variety of types of guns and pistols were used and that there were no to hand-to-hand clashes All the injured he reported suffered suffered suffered suf suf- from gun wounds The officer related that his in information information information in- in formation was that the miners In in about automobiles and trucks of which a majority bore Harlan county license plates arrived near the mine shortly after midnight and tried to get the mine to shut shutdown down Both he continued began began began be gan shooting with shotguns and pistols There has been so much confusion it has been hard to get geta a clear picture of the trouble |
