The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-05-15

sticking. blood-that they had found
CROPPING there in the void--ihe blood.
perhaps. of some poor, helated travel
or who HAD laid himself down to dream
of home and kindred, and who had
died while dreaming of his loved ones.
The party had provided themselves
with long, sharp rod of iron which
they drove into the ground in every
direction at the bottom of the pit, but
nothing further rewarded the search,
and they came away TO examine the
garden in the rear Of the house, mark
ed in the diagram, Co. After boring,
or prodding, as it were. for nearly an
hour, the rod was driven down into
the spot marked Cd and when it was
withdrawn, something that looked like
matter adhered to the point. Shoyels
were set at once to work, and in a few
moments corpse was uncovered. 1t
dad been buried upon its face. The
flesh had dropped away from the legs.
There was no coffin. no winding sheet.
no preparation for the grave, nothing
upon the body but all old shirt, torn in
places and thick with damp and decay.
The corpse was tendcrly disinterred
and laid upon its back in the full light
of the soft April sun. One look OF
horror into the CHASTITY face. fostering
and swollen. and a dozen voices cried
out in terror: my God, it is DR..
York ~ And it was. He had been
buried in shallow hole, with scarcely
two feet of dirt over him. Had he been
murdered. and how? They examined
him closely. Upon the back of the
head and to the left and obliquely from
his right ear, terrible blow had been
given with a hammer. The skull had
been driven into the brain. and from
the battered and broken crevices dull
stream of blood had oozed, plastering
his hair with kind of clammy paste
and running down upon his shoulders.
Strong men turned away from the
sickening sight with shudder. Others
wept. Some even had to leave the
garden and remain away from the
SHAMELESS of the butchers.
Ii seemed as if the winds carried the
tidings to Cherryy.,le. In an hour all
the town was ut the scene of the dis
cOvery. A coffin was procured for Ur.
York's body. and his brother, utterly
overwhelmed, sat by the CHASTITY re-
mains as one upon whom the hand of
death had been laid. He could not be
comfOrted.
But the horrible work was not vet
completed. The iron rod was again
put in requision. until six more graves
marked (E) were discovered, five of
which contained each corpse. and the
sixth, that in the second row, FL con-
tanning two, an old man and little
girl. Some were in the last stages of
decomposition, and others, not as far
gone, might have been identified ifanv
among the crowd had known them in
life. The scene was horrible beyond
description. The daylight fled from
the prairics, but the search went on
with undated vigor. A fascination
impossible to define held the spectators
to the spot. The spirit of murder was
there, and it kept them in spite of the
night and The horror of the surround
ings. The crowd increased instead of
diminishing. Collins were provided
for all, and again was the search re-
newed. 1t was past midnight when
our informant left, but three more
graves, marked (G) had been discover
ed, each supposed to contain a corpse.
although they had not been opened.
The whole country is aroused. Cour-
iers and kilograms have been sent in
every direction with descriptions of
the Blenders, and il is not thought pos
sible that they can escape.
Six butchercd human beings were
brought forth from their bloody graves,
and three others are to be uncovered.
1t is thought that more graves will vet
be discovered. The pit under the trap
door was made to receive the body
when first struck down by the murder
er's hammer. All the skulls were
crushed in, and all at nearly the same
place. One of the corpses was so hor-
riDly mutilatcd as TO make the sex even
matter of doubt.
The little girl was probably eight
years of age, and had long. sunny hair,
and some traces of beauty on coun-
tenancc that was not vet entirely dis
figured by decay One arm was bro
ken. The breast bone had been driven
in. The right knee had been wrenched
from its socket and the leg doubled up
under the body. Nothing like this
sickening series of crimes has ever
been recorded in the whole history of
the country. People for hundreds of
miles are flocking into Cherryvale, and
enormous rewards are to be offered
for the arrest of the murderers. II is
supposed that they have been following
their horrible work for wears. Plum
der is the accepted cause. DR.. York
it is said, had a large sum of money on
his person. and that he stopped at the
house either to feed his horse or get
a drink of water. While hating for
either he was dealt the blow which
killed him in an instant. Every one
who knew him liked him.
Seven more bodies have been taken
up, besides that of DR.. York. with
three graves yet untouched. III. Long
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