BLOOD NEAR PETERSBURG
Ironton Register, December 27, 1888
Note from editors: Petersburg is now known as Coal Grove, Ohio.
Last Monday night, while the Memorial Church Sunday school, just below Petersburg, was enjoying their Christmas eve festivities and were filling the children’s hearts with joy from a well-loaded Christmas tree, there was a crack of a pistol outside the church, followed by the noise of a wretched fracas.
The happy scenes were forthwith changed into alarm and excitement, and immediately, Samuel Carey rushed in at the front door, followed closely by Sol Kimball. The latter was stopped at the entrance, though he couldn’t go further because of the loss of blood and the pangs of a shot in the side of the head near the ear.
Carey and Kimball had been quarreling outside of the church. It is said they were both under the influence of liquor. The quarrel soon became an altercation when Carey drew out his revolver and blazed away at Kimball, hitting him below the ear. Kimball, too, had a revolver and jerked it out when Carey sought refuge in the church, pursued by Kimball.
So great was the terror in the church and so eager the desire end the excitement that some people sought to get Carey out of there as soon as possible, so he was allowed to exit through a window. Once out, he made a good escape and has not been seen since. The wound Kimball received is painful, but at last, accounts will not prove fatal.
We learn that since the above was in type, nine shots were fired altogether, so other persons must have taken part in the melee. Kimball had no revolver but closed in on Carey and took the latter’s revolver from him. It was then that Carey ran to the church, and Kimball followed, trying to get a shot at him. There have been no arrests.
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