Show IT 01 TUE THE PITH they ll 11 1 a S rom and get el the worst or it sept 20 advises advices of a reliable nature received tod today to day d y from louisa ky say that on taeia twelve 1 pole creek near wayne 0 11 II on friday 1 a I terrible fight occurred between a sheriffs posse and a banz gang of italian laborers in which several italians were war k killed ad and a number wounded some weeks ao age a contractor oa on the norfolk 44 western railroad named keogh went away having numerous numa creditors among the number being the italians A new contractor took possession aion of the abandoned wor work kand and put a number ot of Is laborers borers to work in the cut formerly worked by the italians the latter refused to allow an anyone to work in the cut until they bigone bad received th their elrea pay y for the work done under keogh and rid proceeded to oust tha the new laborers tareo times the new now laborers wore run ran out tho the contractor applied to the court for protection I 1 and was fur 7 1 t I 1 dished a poe powe of a about b out a dozen me men a headed by sheriff wayne on vi friday i the bbs iff appeared and made an attempt to arrest tho the italians who fiercely restated and acdan an unequal combat resulted rebutted with forty or more italians oa on ono one side armed with stones stone s knives and revolvers an I 1 the sheriffs e men on the other the italians fought from behind trees stones and whatever mould shield a roans mans body the firing became general and lasted listed s some 0 m e minutes several italians were k lulled il le d mand and several wounded the sheriffs she riffa men man e with a few severe bruises about twenty italians were arrested and taken tomail to jail the remainder escaped in into 0 the woods Th of the fight ia is fort forty y or fifty miles from here and remote from railroad and t telegraph tle graph com commini mint cation |