sentences:  These include the Bloody Vendetta (1876), armed confrontation between families and associates during the waning days of Reconstruction; the Carterville Massacre (1899), a Coal Strike (1906), the Herrin Massacre (1922), the Klan War (1924–1926), and the Birger/Shelton Gang War (1926).During the so-called Klan War, a mob of perhaps 1,300 men were deputized by the local sheriff.Starting on 1 February 1924, the pose began raiding the homes of local mine workers, mostly Italian immigrants.