Hellraisers Journal: Battle at Mucklow Between Miners and Company Gunthugs Leaves One Dead, Many Injured

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Quote Fred Mooney re July 1912 Battle of Mucklow, Ab—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday July 31, 1912
Mucklow, West Virginia – Striking Miners Battle Company Gunthugs

From The Wheeling Intelligencer of July 27, 1912:

HdLn re Battle of Mucklow, Wlg Int p1, July 27, 1912

From The Pittsburgh Post of July 30, 1912:

Photos re Mucklow WV, Ptt Pst p3, July 30, 1912

Top, left to right:
Troop train arriving at Mucklow, W. Va. Every man on Paint Creek goes armed, and the excitement is intense.
General view of Mucklow, showing the company store and tipple on the left, and troops beginning their encampment on the right.

Bottom, left to right:
Prisoners accused of murdering mine guards. Twenty-two of these were taken on Saturday by Baldwin men, who surrounded them with an armed guard.
Tent and family of one of the destitute and evicted miners.

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Fred Mooney re July 1912 Battle of Mucklow WV
Struggle in the Coal Fields: The Autobiography of Fred Mooney, p33
West Virginia University Library, 1967
https://books.google.com/books?id=nE3tAAAAMAAJ

The Wheeling Intelligencer
(Wheeling, West Virginia)
-July 27, 1912
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092536/1912-07-27/ed-1/seq-1/

The Pittsburgh Post
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
-July 30, 1912
https://www.newspapers.com/image/86424966/

See also:

The New York Call of July 29, 1912, page 6
Editorial: “Making Savages”
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/the-new-york-call/1912/120729-newyorkcall-v05n211.pdf

The Wheeling Majority of August 1, 1912
“West Virginia Troops Help Coal Mine Thugs
Crush Men in Slavery”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092530/1912-08-01/ed-1/seq-1/

Everybody’s Magazine of May 1913, page 625
(search: mucklow battle july 1912)
https://books.google.com/books?id=3Z7PAAAAMAAJ

Tag: Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912-1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/paint-creek-cabin-creek-strike-of-1912-1913/

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