Robert Harmon

In the midst of escalating tensions between union and non-union laborers in the small mining town of Coal Creek, Tennessee, Deputy Sheriff Robert Harmon, a male, lost his life on Sunday, February 7, 1904. The fatal encounter was a grim culmination of a day already marred by violence. Earlier that day, guards employed by the Coal Creek Coal Company had opened fire on a group of striking union miners at the local train station, killing three men. The guards were escorting non-union workers to the ...

Deputy Sheriff Robert Harmon

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