The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-11-29
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A Women Attacked and Torn to Pieces sy
Dogs,
INafchez Democrats ~

A Dogs
1 lNatches DemocratI .,
| The people OF Natchez were on Sunday
4 last shocked beyond description by the
annonncement that Mrs. James Fagan,
an estimable and industrious lady OF
this city in humble life, had been, at q
quarter after O'Clock that morning, at
tackled by three fer0ei0us dogs, and 80
torn and mangled that her death was
| imminent. -s
Mrs. Pagan was an humble. industri--
Gus, hard-worklng woman, wife OF MI.
| James Pagan and mother OF o family,
consisting Of two girls and one boy. Fhel
family resided at the eastern end Of
! state street, next neighbor to Mr.. Will
lam Abbott. ON Sunday morning, her
cow not having returned IN due time,
she went in the direction OF the bayou,
lust beyond her residence, to look Tor the
cow.
At about quarter after O'Clock, the
barking of several dogs, mingled with
screams, were heard in the neighbor-
hood OF the bayou, between Mr.. .Gastrelps
residence, ON Homoehitto street, and the
late residence OF Gen. Clark Routhland) },
in an easterly direction. In a few mtn-
utes a colored boy, name not known to
us, employed by Mr.. ID. u. Eustis, who
was q attracted ir by me barking Tggo,a,, ana ID
street, Coming toward town, ana
lcrying out that a woman
Ihad been almost eaten up by
ldogs, designating at the same time the
location. The boy, when he reached Mr..
i Eustis, described to him what he had
Witnessed. He said he had been attract
ed by the screams, and going to the spot,
Hound a lady Mrs. +. in drain or gully
of the bayou, her head only being out OF
lth = hndV
submerged, and three dogs, which he de-
scriDed lerociously biting and tearing at
her; he had, on seeing the situation,
driven the, dogs away for some distance,
land then came Immediately after hav-
ling done so to notify Mr.. Eustis and get
help.
MIR. Eustis, Immediately after hearing
the boys narration, proceeded TO the
spot. There he found poor Mrs. Fagah
Submerged, as we have said, in the
waller OF the gully up to her neck, and
lher lace (all then visible aaove the
r water) most horribly lacerated, the dogs
lhaving eviuently made most furious at
} tack and taken OUT whole pieces OF flesh.
This was probably about twenty min
lutes alter the dogs had done their dread
ul work. When Mr.. Eustis proposed to
help the poor woman out OF the water,
she, with heroic modesty, disclosed the
horrible work the dogs mad done, saying
to him (Mr. E.) that the dogs had
stripped the clothing from her per-
son, and requesting MIR. Eustis to
get shawl or blanket to cover
lner before she should get out of the
water. What agoniZing torture she
must have endured i'll this assertion OF
her modesty can only be imagined when
it is known that alter Mr. Eustis had
sent to Mr.. FL. Nj. GastrelPs house, the
nearest to the scene, and got blanket,
and she had been taken to Mr. GastrelPs 8
house to die, as the sequel proved, from
: her terrible wounds, uesplte every al
tention ON the part of Mr.. and Mrs.
lGastrell and the ministrations OF some
Of the best ply sicians, Drs. Metcalte and
McPneeters, it was found that not only
the poor woman's face had been torn to
pieces, but that her breast and arms and
limbs had been stripped OF flesh, and yet
she lay there in the water, this poor,
!, bleeding, lacerated woman, a martyr to
most excruciating agony for the sake oi
womanly modesty.
Mr.. Gastrell, Mr.. Eustis, and others,
took the poor woman to Mr.. GastrelPs
J residence, and there, before two O'Clock
I after having received her last sacra.
ments of her Church, she died. About
the spot where she had been discovered
and rescued, alas, too late, were found
evidences Of a most fearful contest be.
, tween the poor victim anu the terocious
dogs. Her shawl, strips OF her clothing,
OF which she had been almost entirely
denuded, and great pieces OF flesh from
almost every part Of her body, were
lound within short distance OF the
: place, scattered in every direction.
| Gentlemen who sfterward went to the
scene OF the terrible tragedy tracked the
dogs up the right bank Of the bayou for
considerable distance.
The boy who first came upon the
scene describes the dogs as white
spotted bull dog, black dog with a
white neck. and black dog with long
: hair, and we hear that Mrs. Pagan her.
self, who never lost consciousness from
| the finding OF her to her death, concurs
with the boy exactly in the description.
Since writing the above we have seen
Mr. Eustis himself; he tells us that the
| boy left his residence at about half-pasl
, s O'Clock, TO take some COWS over to Gen.
Clark's Routhland place; that on the
way he heard the dogs, and looking in
I that direction, saw Mrs. Fagan's hand
, being pulled to and hither by them; thai
the boy then came to him (giYing the
alarm along the way), and told him. Mr.
Eustis, that ''the dogs were eating Q
: woman up." Mr.. Eustls FASTENED TO the
, place indicated, and there found Mrs
Pagan very much in tae condition above
, described. Mr.. Eustis c0rroborates sub
stantially the account already given o
, | her modest refusal to be taken from tht
water until covering was obtained fol
her person.
Her own statement Mr.. Eustis tells US
J is that she found the dogs (describin,
them as we have stately furiously at
tacking her cow, which had not beer
kept up for two days, and she attempted
to keep the dogs of the COW, when they
. set upon her, and the rest of the SAT
! story is already told.
ii Now, shoot the dogs. then hang thu
J man that kept and owned them. Thatl
our verdict.-ED. STAR.l
II Chiueea Gtudanfa