The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-18
A TEXAS HORROR.
determination OF a Family of Beauti-
full Children.

determination of a Family of Beauti-
full Children.
Correspondence st. Louis iobe-Democrat.
Hockey TEX, Oct 1.-The ''Hockley
horror" as the Lynch tragedy and mas
sacre are called, is still fresh in the
minds of the people of Texas. Be it
said to Ahe honor of the great body of
the people-leaving out criminals and
their sympathizers-that this dreadful
deed continues to excite their honest in
dignation. This extraordinary and
wholesale slaughter of an entire family
at one fell swoop, is indeed bevond all
odds the most horrible affair of the kind
that has disgraced the present century,
and 1t is doubtful if the most bloody pa
ges OF history, even the darkest legends
of antiquity, contain so dreadful mys-
terry. The murder of the princes in the
tower, or the horrible revelations of the
dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition,
have nothing to equal the silent terror
of this fearful crime.
George w. Lynch, a most respectable,
honest and honorable citizen-a native
of Texas-a Master Mason in good
standing years and years ago married
Miss Hargrave, belonging to one of
the most reputable families of Central
Texas, They lived happily together,
beautiful home surrounded by every
thing that makes that sacred place hap
Ply, and all the comforts of an ordinary
rural residence. 1t was situated in Wal
Ter county, seven miles northwest of
Hockey, looking down upon the limpid
waters of Spring creek, q mile to the
westward, to whose sandy hanks q prai-
RE of tall grass swept down. In the
background were outrageous groves of
broad spreading trees, flanked on either
side by fields white with the staple of
the South, or waving with corn. In a
clump OF oaks was located the family
mansion. Trees waved above the gal
lery" or veranda, and beautiful shrub
berry tended by the hand of Mrs. Lynch,
such as usually adOrns a southern home,
was tastefully arranged around the
house.
Besides the father and mother-the
latter having died two weeks before the
dark tragedy that ushered her offspring
into eternity-the family, now in their
graves. consisted of the following
Miss Carrie Lynch, a beautiful Young
girl of seventeen; Miss Lorraine Lynch,
her handsome young sister, aged thir-
teen years; Lode Lynch, Abigail Lynch,
Jerome Lynch, aged eleven years; Chi.
ma Lynch, Phoebe Lynch, and HAYES
Lynch. The last mentioned was the
innocent babe "a few weeks odd be-
queathed by the tender wife of Mr.. Lynch
to his keeping, and which also persisted
IN the contiagration set by the hand of
the deViliSh assassin.
A Globe Democrat correspondent to-
day called upon George Lynch, the IA
ther of the Inflated family, who, since
the affair, and the more effectually to
recover from his wound, has been re-
moved to Hockey, where alone, in the
midst of his friends, his life is Deem
ed safe from the same internal demons
that sent his innocent children to their
graves When the correspondent aIlud-
ed to his lost ones, the unfortunate man
burst into tears and wept like a child.
Said he: They say the bodies of all
my children were recovered from the ru-
ms OF my house; but know better. on
ly six bodies were found.''
What became of the other two, and
was the body Of Miss Carrie one of
them ?"
II do not know;n and Mr.. LYNCH vvho
is strong man, mentally and PHYSICAL
ly, averted his gaze and shed tears again
Hence the question arises among the
Mortified people of Texas, If the body of
Miss Carrie Lynch, his unfortunate girl
was not recovered from the ruins of5the
burned building, if she was not burned
up with the other children, what Vas
her fate9 AbductionP The future alone
must answer. The question at last must
be solved. when the earth and sea give IN
their dead, and the guileless spirit Of
the young girl conffonts her murderers
in the great day of account.
Lypch's story is as follows: sAfter
attending TO some farm duties, he enter.