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===July 8, 1899: baseball game shootout ===
The baseball game was part of the local Independence Day celebrations. The night before, however, Rufus Lindsey was at home when shots were fired into the house; he had reported some neighbors to the revenuers. He refused to come out of the house, and the attackers responded by cutting down three acres of his corn.

The baseball game the next day was the perfect opportunity for Rufus and two brothers to take revenge. They accused some in the crowd, who denied it; the three Lindsey’s began firing indiscriminately into the crowd. Immediately fire was returned from Rectors, Howards, McKinneys, Bartons, Harris, and Bruce. The expanding fight moved up the hillside. Each Lindsey brother was injured, at which point they fled in a buggy. The crowd chased for half a mile when the buggy broke down and the Lindseys fled into the woods on foot. The mob descended on the buggy and set it ablaze. In the end, several hundred shots were fired and a dozen or more wounded.