Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-06-30
HELLISH MURDER.
A Cattaraugus Indian Beaten to Death
ON a Lake Shore Train.
The Body COOlly Thrown from the Car
Window.

BUFFALO, N. Y, June 26.-Details of a
cowardly murder near Dunkirk have Just
reached this city. Late last evening a
party of Irishmen with their wives board
ed a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad train at Dunkirk, bound for An
COLA, they having attended funeral at
the first named place. In the same car
with them were two Indians belonging
to the Cattaraugus reservation. The lat
ter were considerably under the influence
of liquor, which the Celtic representa-
tives appeared to be unduly excited over.
Scarcely had the train started before four
of the Irishmen began an insult on the
Indians without apparently having any
provocatlon. Almost helpless from i'm
bibing so much Of that which cheereth,
the Indians offered but little resistance
to the assailant'sr blows, and they we're
beaten most brutally. The scene in the
car could not be done Justice 10. PaAse-
.noniun1 would have beer silence as i )
pared to the confusion which reslsaed
within that car. Women screamed IN
their highest notes. Men haIlooed, hile
the yeffs of the unfortunate red EIpn are
described as something terrible. The
combatants passed from one end of the
car to the other, the Indians endeavoring
to escape from the furious Irishmen,
whose rage had become SO great as to
turn them for the time being into demons.
They jumped upon their more than help
less victims, stamping on them, and il,
perchance, one of them got up he was
promptly knocked down. The women
in the Car had to climb upon the seats in
order to escape from maddened Celts, and
one man had his wrist dislocated in en-
deavoring to interfere, and also to rescue
his wife. The conductor was in the car,
but claimed that he was utterly power
less to seperate the men.
Several other Irishmen exhibited de-
sire to join in the brutal affray, but their
frightened wives clung to them and held
them back. One of the number, who
showed a more belligerent disposition
than his comrades, was held by the hair
of his head by two females. In short
time the four had got one Of the abort
gines down in corner near the closet,
and they turned their entire attention to
him, kicking and maltreating him in a
most inhuman manner. He was soon in
an insensible condition. AS final act
one of the ruffians raising his foot high,
iammed his heel on the head of the life
less red man, probably driving out what
little life had remained in him. Then
dragging out the body which, during the
atfray, had been nearly stripped of cloth
ing, the monsters lifted up one of
the windows and threw him out. The
last that was seen of it, it was rattling
over and over down the steep embank-
ment. This devilish work completed,
they kicked and hammered the second In
dian for few seconds and then threw him
down on one of the seats. Then they sat
down, drew out their pipes and smoked
as complacently as though one of the
most common events of their life had just
occurred.
At the first stop an effort was made to
get the conductor to run the train back
to see what had become of the body, but
he refused to do so. The murderers got
off at Angola, but nobody had made any
they disappeared, and at pres.
ent no one knows their homes. A pass
enger on the train. however, on arriving
in this city, made known the facts to the
police of the city, and they, in turn. noti-
fed the Angola authorities. The Indian
was this morning found dead near the
fence at the foot of the embankment, and
removed to Angola. No cause is assigned
for the outrage, and the conductor and
5rain hands are bitterly reproached for
not helping the unfortunate Indian.