During the 1912-1913 Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike, coal companies imported strikebreakers, called "scabs" by the miners, to keep the mines operating. To move them through the strike zone, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad fitted a train with armor plating and machine guns, and the Bull Moose Special became both a transport for strikebreakers and a symbol of intimidation against striking miners. On the evening of February 7, 1913, coal operator Quinn Morton and Kanawha County Sheriff Bonner Hill boarded the train with ten deputy sheriffs and several railroad special agents, with about twenty-four heavily armed men in the armored car and another car. Hill was headed to Mucklow to serve John Doe arrest warrants sworn out by Morton for several men involved in a shooting earlier that day, and had boarded the train after missing a passenger train. Morton had loaded the train with rifles and ammunition, supposedly for Mucklow's protection against attacking miners. Late that night, with its lights off, the Bull Moose Special approached the Holly Grove tent colony, where miners had already moved many women and children into dugout shelters in anticipation of trouble. When the train reached town, Morton, mine guards, and deputy sheriffs opened fire on the colony with rifles and machine guns, and both sides exchanged intense gunfire. Because many noncombatants had been evacuated, only one miner was killed, though several others were injured, including a woman shot in the foot. Hill did not join the assault and said he had no knowledge of a planned attack, while Morton claimed self-defense. The only injury on the train was a slight bullet wound to the engineer's hand. Mine guard Lee Calvin later testified to Congress that after leaving Holly Grove, Morton said, "We gave them hell and had a lot of fun. Let's back up and give them another round."