CENTRALIA ENTERPRISE AND TRIBUNE
CENTRALIA WISCONSIN
16 MAY 1891

 

GUNFIGHT IN THE SOUTH
     

THREE MEN KILLED AND ONE WOUNDED FOUR TIMES IN WEST VIRGINIA

 

Perryville, W.Va., May 11 -----Lewis Hall and his son, Lewis Hall, Jr., got into a quarrel near Knox Creek, with Samuel Steel and his son Hiram.

 

In the fight which ensued, Lewis Hall, Jr., was shot through the heart and instantly killed; Hiram Steel was pierced with seven bullets, and died in a few minutes.

 

Samuel Steel was mortally wounded, dying shortly afterward, and Lewis Hall received four slight wounds, but escaped to the mountains.

 

(Ona's Note:   When Lewis was killed in 1912, the article mentioned his killing of 3 men named Steel.