The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-09

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Dispatches received on the afternoon of
the LIST inst, almost Immediately after the
time when it was known that Neal and
Graft, the two men charged with being ac-
completes in the cowardly outrage and
murder and burning which is now familiar
to every one by the name of the " Ashland
tragedy" were to be transferred from Cat
lettsburg to Lexington under change of
venue, conveyed rumors of bloody battle
between the troops sent into Boyd County
by Governor Blackburn and mob who
seemed determined that if the prisoners
were to be taken away, they should
be taken dead. The feeling that was
known to exist in Boyd County
gave color of certainty to these rumors,
and it was known that Governor
Blackburn's indiscreet threats had only
intensified the popular excitement. The
popular impression was that, according to
law, the prisoners could not be taken out
of the Judicial District in which the crime
was committed and must be sent to one
of the other two counties, Lawrence or
Carter. The Court decided upon change
of venue to Carter County, but it was or
dered that the prisoners should be re-
hlofeu W Lexington Pehdlng their trlai.
This was undoubtedly the circumstance
that led to the immediate breaking out Of
hostilities and to the bloody and disastrous
conflict, the story of which is told in the
following dispatch:
ASHLAND, KENTUCKY, November l.
To-day has closed the saddest that has ever
dawned in the history of Ashland. The murderers,
Craft and Neal, have added additional sorrow and
suffering to this outraged people, This noon about
twenty-five boys and men, some of whom we're in
various stages of intoxication, seized the switch
engine of the A. C. and ]. R. r. and a coach be-
longing to the s. " Road, and went to Catlettsburg
after the prisoners, very much against the wishes
and Judgment of the nractcal and sensible mart of
the community who last n;obt ooye mn all home.
of pettino the murdero-, ovov fror The soldiers
on acconnt of the STRENGTH of tho latter and the
superioritv of their arms Nodemonstration we've
made nv this crowd bovever in catlettsburg and
tho soId;or,, .roooo5aa IN ,..,;n, ,ho r,;snner,
aboard the steamer Granite STAT, about q
without anv offer of interrinntion being made.
The crowd ON the train. however. started back
to Ashland. where thew arrived ahead of the boat;
and about twenty bovs ran down and seized the
ferryboat. put a pistoI to the Captain,s head and
commanded him to put out in the stream to inter-
cept the Granite State. The ferryboat in a slow
tub, and their efforts were plainly fruitiess from
the start. Unluckily some foolish fellow on the
ferrvboat to the sorrow of MANY homes i'm Ash
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| s11eHrty yvouNpEn.
| Mart Dunlap, Alex Harris. John Gallagher
Julius Sommers. Thomas Bird. Mrs. B. Butler. A,
III. Dickson, Thomas Demerera, N E. Ball. Dr.
| ellis Martin Gear, Robert Lawther, ]. W. House
| Colonel Reppart numbered among the killed
was an old and highly ed citizen of seventy
odd wears universally loved and fayorite of both
old and young. He was the father-iu-law of Col.
onel Douglas Putnam. ir, Superintendent of the
| AC&IR r Co. and we'll known in Marietts