Hellraisers Journal: News from Battle of Blair Mountain: 400 Miners Surrender to U.S. Troops; Reporter Shot, Sticks on Job

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Quote Fred Mooney, Mingo Co Gunthugs, UMWJ p15, Dec 1, 1920—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday September 5, 1921
West Virginia’s Mine War Wanes as Miners Surrender to U.S. Troops

From the New York Tribune of September 4, 1921:

Battle of Blair Mountain, 400 Miners Surrender, Boyden Sparkes Article, NY Tb p1, Sept 4, 1921

Battle of Blair Mountain, Boyden Sparkes Shot Twice, NY Tb p1, Sept 4, 1921

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Quote Fred Mooney, Mingo Co Gunthugs, UMWJ p15, Dec 1, 1920
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2hg5AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA23-PA14

New York Tribune
(New York, New York)
-Sept 4, 1921
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-09-04/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-09-04/ed-1/seq-2/

See also:

Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals
A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
-by David Alan Corbin
PM Press, 2011
(search: sparkes)
https://books.google.com/books?id=zHH7BgAAQBAJ

West Virginia Coal Fields, Senate Investigation of 1921
https://books.google.com/books?id=954vAAAAMAAJ
-repub of article Boyden Sparkes:
“Jack Dalton v Bill Blizzard”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=954vAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA876

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