On March 12, 1911, H. M. Holloway, a White male Deputy Sheriff with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department who also served as a detective for the Queen and Crescent Railroad, was killed in the line of duty in Stearns, Kentucky. The incident occurred during a period of significant labor unrest and violence known as the Queen and Crescent strike, which involved white railroad firemen protesting the employment of Black firemen on the Cincinnati Southern Railway. Tensions in the region were extreme
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