Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-06
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO rHH RsooRD-UMoN.l
Terrible Texas Tragedy.

killed her FIVE children and then herself DUR
ing fit of insanity. On one of the large
ranches about twenty miles TO the southwark
of Lampasas there lived for four years past
quiet, well-to-do Mexico, named Antonio
Valdez, whose family consisted of wife and
five children, the age of the eldest child being
10 years, and that of the youngest years.
The wife. who was about 80 years of.age, had
been subject to epileptic fits and spells OF
melancholy of long duration. On Wednes.
day the afflicted woman was attacked with
fit of UNUSUAL severity. When she had re-
covered from her spasm her husband went to
work to herd flock of sheep belonging to
the ranch. He had been gone but short
time when his wife rose from her couch, and
with huge butcher knife, which had care
lessIy been left within her reach, began her
terrible work of destruction Her eldest
child. sweet girl OF 10 years, was the first
to fall victim TO her maniac mothers cruel
blows, her head being almost severed from
her body. With that method peculiar to in
sane persons, the woman in quick succession
slew the other children, hacking and stabbing
them in shocking manner. Suddenly, tax
ing parting look at the dead before her, she
plunged the knife into her own breast, reeled
TO a corner of the room aud fell dead. Dur
ing all the time this horrible tragedy was be-
ing enacted her serving woman, peoD, was
powerless TO prevent it, from al sct fear. The
husband was soon apprised of what had hsp-
penei.
Young Orphan Girl Brutality Outraged.
MILWAUKEE, October 5th.-The mystery
surrounding the disappearance Of a young
orphan girl about week ago was solved yes
terday, and the solution develops the facts of
one Of the most horrible outrsges ever known
in this country. In passing the old stock
yards near the corner of Twelfth and Hill
streets, Superintendent Whitehead, of the
Humane Society, noticed two young men
leave one of the ruined stables, and, after
glancing hastily around. start up the street.
He went to the barn and there found young
! girl, apparently about II or Is years old,
lying on pile of hay in half-unconscious
condition. At police headquarters it was
ascertained that she was Mamie forester,
who had been missing since last Wednesday,
and that she had been drugged by party of
roughs and brutality maltreated. According
to the girls story she left home on Wedn 49,
day afternoon, met young man whom she
knew, and the two drank q glass of wine.
Then she became unconscious, and, when she
came to her senses, she was in 3 car near the
Lumbar yards Of the st. Paul track, near Hill
street. A dozen men were with her. She
remembered being taken along the railroad
track, and as she partly regained conscious
ness, bottle of whisky was placed to her
lips and she was compelled to drink until her
memory was drowned Again she revived
and found herself in dark woods, blazing
fire lighting up the surroundings and reveal
ing a party of seventeen roueh-looking men
as her csptors. She was dosed with liquor
and drugs until her reason again departed.
When she regsined consciousness third
time she was lying as found by Superintend-
baf ha1 wit
cold and still partly under the influence of
drugs and liquor. She was unable to move
and could scarcely articulste when discov-
cred. The girls family was notified and she
was taken to the home of her brother. She
is in a very critical condition and suffers
greatly from the effects of exposure, hunger
and the treatment she received. The officers
are searching for the perpetrators of the out
rage, with the chances fsvoring the arrest of
the entire party.
Gambler Fatally Burned.
New ORLEANS, Ocsober 5th.-At Provi
dence, Natchitoches parish, on Sunday night,
six Negroes section hands on the New Or
leans and Pacific Railroad, and Ned Brad
field, or Bradford, sat down to plsy game Of
cards. Luck was in favor of BTadheld. who
succeeded in winning all the money of the
other gamesters. The losers became violent
in their demonstrations against Bradheld ana
insisted on his returning the money that he
had won. Naturally, he refused. An at
tempt YVES made to take from him the money.
He resisted violently and so angered his as
sailants that, in their rage, they threw the
unlucky winner on log fire and held him
down over the blaza, holding him by each leg
and arm Bradfald, in his agony, managed
to wrench himself from the grasp of the me-
groes, but not until he was terribly burned.
II l. Nd
pletely burned away. In this mutilated con-
dition he managed to walk several miles in
search of assistance. Remedies were applied,
but the man died in great agony on Monday
morning.
Texas MurderersCaptured.
CHICAGO, October 5th.-Detectives passed
through here last night for Tilden, Texss, in
charge of man named Clabe Young, who is
wanted for the murder of a man named
! O'Donnell in November, 1873. The prisoner
was arrested on ranch seventy miles south
of Rswlins, on the Union Pacific Railroad,
where he was living with Mrs. Caste, hav-
| ing driven the husband of the woman away.
| 1t is told of Young that he and his brother
carried on a career of brigandage in the
southwestern part of Texas for number OF
YEAR. robbipg stages, etc. The murder of
O'Donnell resulted in their being driven from
the country.
The POstmaster-GeneraI sued.
New ORLEANS, October 5sh.-The National
Bank has brought suit against the Postmaster
General for 800 600. 1t is alleged that the
order directing that money orders addressed
to the bank but intended for a lottery COM
pany shall not be delivered, was intended to
charge the bank with fraudulent practices
and illegal action, and has seriously damaged
its business.
Approach of Winter.
PoRT JARVIS IN. ", October 5bh.-Last
night was the coolest of this season !; Their
mometer 26'. This morning a white frost
covered everything. Ice half an inch thick
formed. All crops not killed by the Sep
tember frost are now destroyed. Many grapes
in the Delaware valley were frosted. Buck
wheat and corn are total failure. The
drought made them late, and the frost destroy
ed them.
Accidents on the Rail.
PHILADELPHIA, October 5th.-The in bound
train on the North Pennsylvania branch of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ran
into street car of the Union line at Sus-
ouehanna avenue and American street this
morning. The car was demolished, and all
the passengers more or less injured. Ten
persons, VINO were the most severely injured,
were taken to the Episcopal Hospital, and
two have since died. The driver of the street
car was 10 the car at the time of the accident.
Those who have died are James Hammill and
James Dsvine. Among the injured was a
woman named Mary Sellers who was terri
bly, mangled. She and several others are ex.
pected to die.
LArER.-The names of the dead are as fol-
lows: John McKsown, gardener, leaves q
wife and seven children John Hammill,
coal dealer, and several others badly injured.
There was no conductor on the car, and the
drivers duty required him to guide his team
and see that fares were deposited in the box,
and at the same time watch for trains at the
railroad crossing.
COLUMBUS, October 5th.-A section of a
freight train ran into the csboose of another
train on the Newark division of the Pan
handle road this morning, killing Thomas
Cranshaw, brakeman, and iDjuring another
man.
The Brooklyn Bridge Cable Cars.
New York, October 5th-The cars run
upinterruptsdly on the bridge now. Super
intendent Martin returned from Chicago,