Mccreary-Pulaski County KyArchives News.....2 Slain On Trains March 13 1911 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Lou Hudson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001143 May 12, 2004, 12:56 pm 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. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/