Mccreary-Pulaski County KyArchives News.....2 Slain On Trains March 13 1911
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Fayetteville Democrat, Fayetteville, AR

Deputies and Negro Firemen Fall in Strike War
Shot From Mountain Sides
Hidden Riflemen Bring Down Victims as Engines Speed By.
   Traffic on Queen and Crescent Line Is Finally Halted -- Armed Men Search 
Cabs of Locomotives for Negroes at Different Stations in Kentucky -- 
Engineers, Warned by Threats to Use Dynamite, Refuse to Work.

Special to The Washington Post.
   Somerset, Ky., March 12.  -- The crisis in the strike of white firemen on 
the Queen and Crescent route of the Cincinnati Southern Railway was reached at 
Somerset and Glenmary, Tenn., today, when two deputy sheriffs and four negro 
firemen were added to the six already slain by sympathizers of the strikes.
   Shots fired from the mountainside as the trains were speeding past brought 
the officials of the road to the conclusion that it was a useless sacrifice of 
life to attempt to continue running trains.  All traffic along the road from 
Somerset to Chattanooga is tonight at a standstill.

   Armed Guards Fired Upon.

   Following the attacks on trains yesterday scores of railroad detectives 
were mustered into duty and every freight and passenger engine carried, as 
guard, at least two armed men.
   The first outbreak today occurred at Glenmary, Tenn.   James Carl, a 
detective on southbound freight No. 78, was picked out by mountain marksmen as 
the train was making 30 miles per hours, and shot above the heart.  Almost 
simultaneously the negro fireman, whom Carl was protecting, fell upon the pile 
of coal he was shoveling, a bullet through his brain.
   The injured man was taken off at Oakdale, Tenn., and rushed to the hospital 
here where he lies in a critical condition.  The body of the negro was taken 
to Chattanooga.

   Deputy Sheriffs Killed.

   H.M. Holloway, deputy sheriff and Queen and Crescent Railroad detective, 
was shot about 8 o'clock tonight, at the town of Stearns, while on guard at 
the company's coal shutes.  About half an hour later, Deputy Sheriff County 
Lovett (sic), who was also on guard at Stearns, was found shot through the 
head.
   Kings Mountain, some distance from Stearns, was the scene of a double 
killing at about the same time.  Two negro firemen were shot on trains 
proceeding through the village.
   Every station south of here is lined with strike sympathizers, and at every 
step, even at water tanks, armed men have examined engine cabs for negroes.  
Many of the latter are kept at work by threats of detectives.
   At stops along the line they are hidden in the tender while white men stand 
guard.
   All along the line mountain sympathizers with the firemen are stationed 
within shooting distance of the railroad and every train that passes is fired 
upon.

   Engineers Refuse to Work

   Warning that bridges would be dynamited indirectly reached the officials of 
the road, and this rumor, together with the constant danger under which they 
are working since the strike opened Thursday, tonight brought engineers to the 
point of quitting the throttle. They have notified the officials that the risk 
is too great, and they will not move a wheel even under guard.
   Brakemen on the line also delivered an ultimatum, in which they said that 
unless the company took steps to remedy the situation at once they would 
strike in sympathy with the firemen.
   Several machinists of this city have been discharged because they refused 
to take the place of the strikers have appealed to their union, and as a 
result the machinists may follow suit.



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