Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-09-30
EASTERN News.
A Most Brutal and FlGndlSh Tragedy
in Texas.
THE SKULLS OF TWO NEGROES
CRUSHED WITH AN Ak.
The Knights of 4 Dor and the
Wyoming Troubles.
a ROWLING AND DESPERATE
MOB IN MONTREAL.
Four Negroes Lynched in
North Carolina.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND APPOINTING
"HoME" MEN.
Four Negroes Lynched in
North Carolina.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND APPOINTING
"HoME" MEN.
Especial TO THE sENI1NEL.I

A Fiendish and Horrible Tragedy.
GALVESTON, Sept. ga News Austin
special says: A horrible tragedy was
enacted here last night, in which a negro
man and o negro woman were brutally
murdered by having their skulls crushed
with en- ak. They were servants in the
family of W. B. Bunham, editor of the
Texas Court Reporter, and occupied a
shanty in the rear OF his premises on
Guadalupe street. The names of the
victims are Orange Washington, Grace
Vance, Patsy Gibson and Lucinda Bodery.
From the testimony and surroundings it
appears the assassins entered the room OF
the sleeping occupants through a window,
and before any Of them awoke succeeded
in striking all four of them on the head
with an AZ. Selling Grace Vance they
dragged her through the window, and
threw her over a fence, then pulled her
through the weeds across a vacant lot to a
rear stable. At this place she must have
recovered consciousness, rs there are evi
dences of a great struggle all around. She
was oyerpowered. and her head battered
TO a jelly with q brick, and, apparently,
while she was struggling between life and
death they outraged her. While the fends
were committing this horror Lucinda
Bodery, recovering somewhat from the
wounds she had received, regained sniff
cientstrength TO get up and light u lamp
in the shanty. One of the assassins, see
ing the light, returned, and. sticking his
head in the window, cursed the woman
aud ordered her to put out the light. At
seeing him she screamed and ran from the
building. He leaped through the win
dow, put out the light and followed and
overlook the fleeing woman just as she
got to the front gate. There
was another desperate struggle, during
which Bunhsm, who was awakened by the
wonan's screams, threw open his front
door, not knowing a murder had been
committed, and thinking the disturbance
was a simple row. levelled his gun at them
without any intention of shooting, and
ordered them to cease their noise. The
woman, by her desperate struggles, freed
herself from the assassin, aud running To
BuDham threw her arms sbcut him and
implored his protection. saying the man
had murdered every one in the shanty
The murderer ran away as soon as the
woman appealed to Bunham. The officers,
however. think they will capture the muir
derers. as they have several clues and the
description obtained from Lucinda Bodery.
Grace Vance was dead when found.
Orange Washington died at an early hour
yesterday morning. Patsy Gibson and
Lucinda Bodery are in a hospital. There
are hopes that Lucinda will recover. but
there are no hopes for Patsy. All the vic
Tins are terribly mashed in the head and
face. The details OF the crime resemble
closely that OF the murder of Mary Rainey
and daughter o few weeks ago, and it i.
generally believed the same fends COM
mitted both crimes.