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Hellraisers Journal – Friday June 10, 1921
Mingo County – Lick Creek Colony Raided; Striking Miners Arrested
From The New York Times of June 6, 1921:
ARREST FORTY IN MINGO.
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Military Authorities Accuse Them of
Violating Martial Law.
WILLIAMSON, W. V Va., June 5.-Forty-two men, residents of the Lick Creek Tent Colony of idle miners, near Williamson, were arrested today and locked up in the county jail charged with violating the proclamation of martial law recently imposed following disorders in the Mingo coal fields.
The purpose of the raid, said Captain U. R. Brockus of the State Police, was an attempt to bring to justice those who had fired upon motorists in the vicinity of the tent colony during the past few weeks. Decision to make the raid, it was said, followed when reports reached State Police Headquarters that an automobile in which five persons were riding was fired upon this morning. Five bullets struck the car, according to the reports, but no one was injured.
The arrests were made by State Police and deputy sheriffs, headed by Captain Brockus and Sheriff Pinson, and consisted of about forty men, all heavily armed. No resistance was offered, but the authorities declared that eight armed men fled into the mountains when the posse reached the camp. One was captured after an exciting chase. The prisoners will be examined tomorrow.
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[Emphasis added. Photograph added from Literary Digest of Dec. 18, 1920.]
[Note: “deputy sheriffs” often means deputized company gunthugs.]
From The Butte Daily Bulletin of September 29, 1920:
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, June 20, 1920, Speeches Steel p213
https://books.google.com/books?id=vI-xAAAAIAAJ
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735035254105/viewer#page/1/mode/2up
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-June 6, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/20407417/
IMAGES
Strikers & Families, Lick Creek Tent Colony, Lt Dg p16, Dec 18, 1920
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=iBU8AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA11-PA16
BF Thugs Law n Order in WV, BDB p1, Sept 29, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045085/1920-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
Map: Lick Creek at Tug Fork, Mingo County, West Virginia
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/10+Lick+Creek+Rd,+Williamson,+WV+25661/37.6620169,-82.2358334/@37.6625911,-82.2405915,5650m/am=t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!4m7!1m5!1m1!1s0x88457e3bb51927dd:0x4c4cdfa8cf34c811!2m2!1d-82.2326898!2d37.6647008!1m0?hl=en
Tag: Lick Creek Tent Colony WV
https://weneverforget.org/tag/lick-creek-tent-colony-wv/
“Interethnic, Family, and Community Exchanges”
…During WV Mine Wars, 1900-1922
-by Lela Dawn Gourley
Old Dominion U, 2019
-see page 100: Chapter IV re Community in Tent Colonies
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=history_etds
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Fire in the Hole – Hazel Dickens