The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-10-29
THE GoLD-HILL SLA UGHrER.



FrOm he YirgiulEl New Enterprise, Oct. 4.
A Ktlealier six O'Clock last evening. a
bloody fight occurred ut Waller Defeat
shaft of the Justice Mine, in Gold Canon.
| between Lower Gold Hill and the Dew
| IFS Gate. This battle was between two
factions contending for the possession of
the mine. There has for some time been
trouble among the trustees ofthe Jnstice
Mining Company, and yesterday theside
represented by Mr.. Minear, President of
the company, appointed by c. +. Kellogg.
| formerly Of the Crown Point. superin-
tendent, in the place of L. +. Smith. the
superintendent now in possession of the
mine and works. Trouble was expected.
but nothing so bloody rs what finally oc-
Cured. There are said to have been ten
men in the Waller Defeat hoisting works
at the time of the fight. The Kellogg
party, headed by William p. kellogg,
brother of G. f. Kellogg, the newlyap-
pointed superintendent, numbered twelve
men.
The fight; such as II was-for the Kel-
logg party fired but two or three shots
lasted but three or four minutes Though
short the bate was decisive. -Four men
of the assailing party were killed and one
MORALLY wounded. f.I. .lI
The killed are: William p. Kellogg.
brother las we have saidl of q. +. Kel-
logg, the newly appointed superintend-
ent; Michael Cain, Michael O'Reilly, and
John Brown. III
The following is the best account of
the battle that we could obtain on the
spot; William p. Kellogg, with a party of
twelve or fourteen men, accompanied by
| Constable Haskins, went down0to the
Justice works for the purpose of taking
possession. The men with Kellogg were
armed, and he was determined that once
in possession he would hold possession.
1t was known that the Smith faction and
a force of men about the works, both at
the Waller Defeat shaft and at the old
Justice shaft who were to hold possession
of the work until they received instruc-
tions from Superintendent Smith to turn
them over. II appears to have been Mr..
Kellogg's idea to have talk with John
Dunn, foreman of the Justice, and those
with him, in order to find out what they
were disposed to do He had the men
with him in order to hold the works If
they were given to him-to hold them SO
that there could be no coming back. A
talk was had with Mr., Dunn, when he
said that he was ready to turn the works
over whenever Mr. Kellogg should come
with proper authority; that there would
| be no trouble about it, etc. 1t was then
thought there would be no trouble, and
Constable Harkin and Mr.. Kellogg start
ed toward Gold Hill. IN lu9b
After they had gone some distance Mr..
Kellogg saw his men going down toward
| the Waller Defeat shaft, About this time
six men left the old Justice works and
also made their way to the Waller Defeat.
Mr., Kellogg now feared that, his men not
understanding what had passed between
him and Mr.. Dunn, there might be trou-
BILE. He therefore told Harkin that he
would 60 back and stop his men from
going to the Waller shaft When he
reached his men they were close to the
building over the works, and still advan-
cling. An eyewitness of what now oc-
Cured informs us that Mr.. Kellogg got
before his men and tried to stop their
advance. The men in the building
warned them not to advance. While Mr..
Kellogg was thus demonstrating with his
men, two of them pushed past him, and
advanced toward the building. One of
these raised his revolver as he moved
forward, and instantlya volley was fred
from the building. Three men fell, two
so badly wounded that they died shortly
after, and ShefIit also mortally wounded.
Now ensued a sort of parley. Mr.. Kel-
logg told those within the building that
he desired to talk with them; to tell them
what he wished to do. He said that this
work must not 60 on; that he did not
come there to have battle with those in
possession of the works. He asked ifhe
might enter the works. They answered
he might if be came alone, but said fan
other man attempted to follow him they
would fire on the whole party. ...fu
Mr.. Kellogg now advanced toward the
building. He had reached the door, and
was just in the act of raising his foot to
step in, when he was fired on by those
inside, and fell down at the door, Mi.
chael Cain ran up to the building to bring
Mr. Kellogg away, he being still alive
when he was shot in the breast and
killed. During this time two or three
shots were fired by the Kellogg party at
those in the building. After the killing
of Cain there would seem TO have been
an entire cessation Of hostilities on both
sides, and outside parties were allowedto
approach and carry off the dead. ,.rus
The presumption is that when Mr. Kel-
logg advanced to the building some of his
men made move to follow, otherwise
the killing of him was most treacherous
and cold-blooded murder, as he went to
the building after being assured that he
would not be harmed.