On This Day in West Virginia History, February 7th

February 7, 2023

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

On February 7, 1913, mine guards, operator Quinn Morton, and Kanawha County Sheriff Bonner Hill boarded an armored train known as the "Bull Moose Special." That evening, they attacked a miners' tent colony at Holly Grove on Paint Creek.

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