Show whisky raids 4 aa are bloodless eight stills are destroyed in the mountains of kentucky without a casualty MAKES interesting STORY although numerous shots were fired by revenue men and mountaineers not a death Is reported chase leads to stills lexington ky raids upon moonshine stills in the mountains of kentucky have become bloodless according to government agents who recently conducted one of the most important raids made in years whether the shooting eye of the mountaineer or the secret service agent has become dimmed or whether the desire sire for less killing has reached into the far mountain recesses Is a disputed point but the fact remains hat bat 12 revenue agents raided and de troyed eight large stills in whitley bounty fired numerous shots and were wred alred at numerous times but so far as Is known knowd not ft a casualty was recorded standing in clumps of sparse shrubbery on the lie top of knobs along laurel fork in whitley county sentries posted apparently by moon shiners watched the operations of federal prohibition hibi tion officers during the recent sensational sat ional raid in the south america section of whitley coi pity vity according to members of the party the raiders from the office of chief field deputy 0 G mcfarland mcf arland were reticent about tho battle reported mohave to have raged about the stills there a thing in it they yere were unanimous in saying we just went in there and destroyed eight stills there were a lot of shuts shots fired but how many of them were fired at us we dont know that was all there was to it number of shots fired the raiders from the local office were steven cornet and charles winfrey rey who were the leaders of the raid J n H reynolds and joe cavanaugh they were accompanied by sheriff renfro of whitley county and seven deputies steve cornet after some persuasion told of the raid we left williamsburg liams burg on the morning of december 3 and went via holden tenn the nearest railroad point into the section of whitley county known to the natives as south Aroc america rica he said we hunted there for stills in the hollows of laurel fork and olean fork sources of the cumberland river we destroyed eight stills in all the first still destroyed was one owned by dewitt gibson we arrested the lie three gibson boys without any trouble they were at their home the next nest still we believe belonged to a man named williams the next nest two destroyed were owned by persons whose names we could not dot ascertain we had no trouble the first day although a number of shots were fired in the distance I 1 could not say post positively that the shots were fired a at t us but think that possibly they were signals to warn the countryside that raiders were about we could see men e 11 standing on the top of the knobs where they could see the road winding around the banks of laurel fort fork which I 1 believe Is the crooke crook edest d i stream in the world Sora emes it Is hard bard to tell which way A t runs the second day we continued the search along laurel fork it was at this time that the nearest to any r real al trouble occurred we left an old man named parsons and another man to guard the mouth of a hollow while we searched it just after we left the guards B bards a mountaineer popped out from behind hind a tree fired several 67 aliota at the guards with a pistol and ran chase chasa leads leade to we gave chase firing as we ne ran the man foil fell but when we searched we e could find ny no trace of him this led ed to one of the amusing incidents of the trip during the chase we found two stills of which we had had no inkling the man led my party directly to an 80 gallon still which we destroyed st another section of the baity we had become divided during the chase found the second still on oil the opposite side of the hill from that down which the fugitive ran we did not find out who owned either still we then went up a hollow where we found another still this was a n rough hollow and we lye had to climb over boulders bowl ders and hang on to trees to get to the still we then started in the he opposite direction two miles down another rough hollow we found the last still destroyed A lot of shots were fired on the second day by both natives and ourselves but nobody was hurt |