Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-07
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THB LUCAN MASSACRE. Bloody Vengeance of a Vigilance
 Committee, AWHOLE FAMILY MURDERED. The Victims Buried Amid Intense Excitement. THE FICTION AT LIVERPOOL. Defeat of the Home Rule
 Candidate.
 
WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED.
The Victims Buried Amid
 Intense Excitement.
THE ELECTION AT LIVERPOOL.
Defeat of the Home Rule
 Candidate.
NEW DOMINION.

gle for Life-A Young W0man's Des- perate Fight-Funera1 of the Victims Vigilance Men Arrested Intense Excitement in the Township.
 LUcAN, Ont. Feb. 6.-The massacre of the DonnelIy family, at their homestead last Tues day night, by masked men, is still the engross- ing topic here. A boy, aged thirteen years, named John Connors, who was in the house at the time, tells the following story of the occurrence They sat up till 10, talking about the trial for the Ryder arson, and Bridget, the niece, who came out from the Donne1lys' old home in county Tipperary only year ego, sang some Irish songs. About midnight there was loud knocking at the door, and party of masked men entered and said to Thomas, who was sleeping in the kitchen, that they had 8 warrant for his arrest. They seized him and dragged him out and shot him in the yard. A moment afterward they burst into the old mans room, but the boy heard them coming and cIambered under the bed. Some of them had guns and others spades and clubs, and the lad heard them pounding the old man and old woman and fighting with Bridget In few minutes all was over, and they poured coal oil over the floors and walls and fired the place. Young Connors remained under the bed until the fire drove him out, when he ran about half mile to the house of g neighbor named Whalen. The next day visit was paid to the house. On the floor of the first room down stairs, in which the old couple slept lay their bodies, that of the old man be- ing charred almost beyond recognition. His head was split across the left side, the gash being four inches in length, and his right arm was nearly severed just above the elbow. The old woman had been literally brained, and there were three big cuts on her shoulders and neck. A broad-axe, such as is used for making square timber, lay in corner of the room, the blade covered with blood and human hair. There was little or no blood on the floor of this room, the flames having licked it up. In the second room lay the body of the son, Thomas, and clots of blood leading into the yard showed that he had been killed there and his body heaved into the burning house. Near his body lay that of Bridget, the niece, a girl of twenty three years. She also had fearfully mangled, the wounds having been inflicted, no doubt, while she was trying to defend herself. Her long, black hair had been torn out by handfuls and lay scattered over the floor. All the bodies were dressed in night clothes which were torn to tatters. Thomas as there were no wounds on his body except a punshot in the abdomen, but the other inmates had fought desperately. Such of the light furniture as had not been consumed was standing piled up against the front and back doors and thrown together like barricade in the doorway dividing the two rooms. The rooms upstairs were completely gutted, but clots of blood and haddfuls of hair on the floor and sticking to the whitewashed log walls showed that the butchery of the girl had begun there.
 While the neighbors were examining this bloody wreck the son William came up from his house, three miles away, aud said band of masked vigilantes had knocked at his door shortly after midnight, and on his brother John, who lived with him, opening it. they shot him down and vanished. On hearing the report William jumped out of bed and rushed outside, stumbling over Johns body, but the vigilantes had gone. John only lived for two or three hours. He was shot twice in the abdomen, evidently with revolver. Nine arrests have been made, the persons ar rested being members of the vigilance com mittee, and more will follow. About two o'clock this morning Robert Donnelly, a brother of John and Thomas, arrived in Lu- can. No arrests have been made since last night, though it is stated that about ten more warrants are to be issued for the arrest of other members of the vigilance committee. An immense crowd came from all directions 10 8gGSuU CQ0 1uu0IhI OA Gho 4AAuAOcA0A A(OA- nellys At 11:3O the funeral procession left the house of Michael Connors, where the body of John Donnelly had been brought previous to the post-mortem examination at the coroner's inquest, and proceeded to the Catholic cemetery, where Father Connolly, the resident priest, had promised to meet the remains and celebrate high mass and bury them with the full rights of the church. It was reported on the streets yes- terday that Father Connolly had refused to allow the remains to be buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery, but the rumor appears to be unfounded. Several parties known to be members of the vigilance committee are said to be in town to-day. New revelations re- garding the burning of Ryder's barn, which was blamed on the Donnellys, are expected.
 The remains of the Donnellys were inferred in the Roman Catholic cemetery without any opposition or manifestations of unusual char acter. Father Connolly celebrated mass and delivered an affecting sermon, in which he states that when he came to Biddulph he did not know the Donnelly boys, but heard they were very hard cases, and was anxious to make them better if possible. But he was sorry to say he had not succeeded in accom- plishing this fact. He said he believed there were men bad enough in Biddulph to fight at bees, knock man down, main horses, burn down buildings and even kill man, but tragedy like the one that had recently hap pened he did not think any old man had any thing to do with, and that it exceeded in hor- TOT anything he had ever met with.
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