Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1901 — Miners Battle with Union Men. [ARTICLE]

Miners Battle with Union Men.

Union coal miners and guards at the minep of the Providence Coal company, seventeen miles from Madisonville, Ky., clashed in a severe light with arms. The battle lasted an hour and a half. As a result James H. Smith, a unionist, is dead; George Crouch, another union man, is fatally wounded, while John West. Hut Dawson, and Nathan Bush, all guards, are wounded, none of them dangerously.