N.C. Calls Up State Troops In Response to Battle in W. Va. Coal Fields, July 17, 1922

Desperate Battle Fought in Coal Fields. . . Governor Morrison Orders Out Five Companies of State Troops. . . Sheriff and Number of Deputies Killed in Fighting Miners. . . State Police Hurrying to Battlefield. . . Miners Involved in Gun Battle; Houses Fired in Nearby Town. . . Mine Is Attacked. . . Rain of Bullets Halts Ambulances Enroute to Scene of Fight

Wheelsburg, W. Va., July 17—(By the Associated Press)—Thomas H. Duvall, who was with his father, Sheriff H.H. Duvall when he was killed in the fight at the Clifton mine with marchers from Pennsylvania this morning, was this afternoon elected sheriff by the Brooke County Court. He at once took charge of the situation, with the assistance of Sheriff Clause of Wheeling, and a body of State police.

The known dead stood at seven this afternoon—Sheriff Duvall and six unidentified members of the attacking party whose bodies were brought to Wellsburg. Four wounded were in hospitals and 13 prisoners were confined in the Welllsburg jail.

Brook County deputies at Cliftonville were searching the wooded hillsides near the mine for other bodies, it having been reported that a dozen or more had been killed. Fire at the mine was extinguished after the tipple and part of the tracks from the mouth of the mine had been destroyed.

From the front page of The Charlotte News, July 17, 1922