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Show jSTATE SOLDiERS ARECALLED OUT MACHINE GUNNERS ON HAND AT CORBIN AS RESULT OF FATAL CLASH Sheriff and Mayor Fear Further Trouble Following Death of Two Men In Gun Ficht; Special Officers Have Left Posts Corbln. Twenty-five Kentucky national na-tional guard machine gunners were here Saturday In response to an appeal ap-peal to Governor Cdwin Morrow by Mayor John Gilliam and Sheriff Young of Whitley county who agreed late Friday that the situation was getting beyond their control. The situation has been tense since the killing of two men and the wounding of two others in a gunflght between railroad workers nnd special police on the streets here early Tuesday. Tues-day. J. C. Braker, Louisville & Nashvill9-engine Nashvill9-engine dispatcher, and George Yaden of London, a special officer, were killed and Jesse Barker, switchman and Carl Day, special officer, were wounded. The officers according to one version of the fight, approached the railroad men to inquire concerning concern-ing a volley of pistol shots. It was claimed by surviving officers that Barker resented the ensuing interrogation interro-gation and the gunfight followed. Local officials were understood to have informed the governor Friday that since the fight Tuesday special police were resigning and it was impossible im-possible to secure others to fill the vacancies. |