The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-03-12
HORRIBLE.
4 Family Of Seven People 0uf-
deco6.
The Murderer Then Commits Sui.
ctd0.
Alter Firing the Tated Building.

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From the Sc. Louis Times.
DR.. Wheeler returned home Last
evening from visit to Monroe coun.
ty, Illinois. bringing news Of q most
shocking tragedy in the vicinity Of
Fish Landing. He stopped on Thurs.
day night at the house Of Mr.. Cava.
nagh, a farmer, with whom he was &C
quainted. About o'clock his host
raped at his door, calling to him in
an agitated voice to get up quick.
He complied, and on going out found
Csvanagh looking in the direction Of
. bright light q quarter of q mile
away. "That," said the farmer excit-
edly, as his friend from the city Joined
him, sis the farmhouse of my poor
friend Kaiser. We must go and see
what We can do"
We hurried across the fields in the
direction of the light and were the
first to arrive at the burning struc-
ture. None of the family could be
seen and the flames had gained such .
hold that it was utterly useless to try
to enter. They shouted for the farmer
and threw sticks and ciods against the
door, but the only response was the
CRACKING OF THE FLAMES
as they found their way upward to
ward the roof. Other neighbors came
hurrying up. each fresh Accession ask
ing anxiously, "Where's the old mani"
"Where are the boYs!" "What does
this meant"
1t was a mystery that no one at
tempted to answer. A score Of farm.
ers gathered about the building and
prevented the FIRE from spreading to
to the out-bui!dinga. Where it was
possible they caught hold Of portions of
the burning structure, the clapboards
and pieces of the roof, and dragged
them away that the flames might find
as little food as possible, for the earn
est desire was to get inside and solve
the mystery Of the non-appearance Of
the family. That consisted of old
Moritz Kaiser, his wife and six chill
dren. The house was substantially
built. occupying ground space Is by
20, with a kitchen addition. and hav-
ing an upper half story. By dint of
hard exertions the farmer succeeded
in checking the flames and shortly
after daybreak the framework smok-
ing and burning slowly stood out desc
lately in the morning light and it was
made possible to enter and search.
An hour later, eight corpses lay in
a row in the front yard, and Monroe
county had furnished . sensation with
out a parallel. Kaiser and his whole
family had perished, but
NOT By THE FLAMES.
The entrance to the house was In the cen
ter of the front, facing the road to Waterloo
fifteen miles to the northeast. The entire
lower story Was one large room. To the
right, on entering, vas situated the bed in
which slept the mother and the two young.
est children. In the corner on the left Was q
= cot, where the old man slept BY himself
The boys beds were upstain, and access "a
the upper sto-y was gained BY . fight Of
steps which went up from the further left
hand corner of the main living room.
The portion of the burned building 6rs'
examined was the right hand corner, vhers
had been the bed in which the mother and
the two little children slept. The love-
half of the bed had been almost entirely
burned, but over the upper part the timber
had lodged and the flames had been Tough
away BY the farmers. Under the debri
could be seen forms, and when the ruins hat
been cleared of slight met the eye whicl
appalled, the stoutest heart. M1. Kaise
lay with little Tommy, aged three. besid'
her, and Ellen. the baby. two months old, Of
her breast. They lay on their backs, viii
the upper portions Of the bodies IN,
the faces veil preserved. but the limb
roasted and twisted out of all human sem
blance. The pillows were
| DRENcHED m BLOOD,
which. having been heated BY the fire, zen
up sickening odor. Nm. Kaiser had tw
deep wounds, one on either side OF the heai
and each penetrating into the brain and sul
6cient to cause death. The heads OF th
little boy and the baby were crushed in IN
the brains exposed. The positions Of th
bodies indicated that they had been kilIe
and the bodies arranged in the bed befol
the flames had been started 70 destroy d
evidences Of
Theaearchen then turned TO the old farm