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An armor-plated train was used against striking miners during the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike. On February 7, 1913, coal operator Quin Morton, Sheriff Bonner Hill, and several railroad men and deputies, armed with rifles and a machine gun, rode the train through the miners’ tent colony at Holly Grove. They opened fire, killing UMWA miner Cesco Estep.
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Hollygrove, West Virginia · United States
