Bull Moose Special
Inscription
Armor-plated train used against striking miners during the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike. On February 7, 1913, coal operator Quin Morton, Sheriff Bonner Hill, several railroad men and deputies, armed with rifles and machine gun, rode train through miners' tent colony at Holly Grove. They opened fire, killing UMWA miner Cesco Estep.
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