The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-02
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
IN THE HATF1E1D-wCoY rEUD.

The Results of an Investigation by News
paper MAn-Govsrnor Wilson's Action
Criticized ssvsrsIy-o Quiet That May
bs Followed by Big Storm.
PIrrsBURaH, Pa, Feb. 1.-The Time
this morning contains five columns con
cerning the Hatfield Nc Coy lsud in Logan
county, West Virginia, and'Pike county
Kentucky-WTitten by Charles 8. Howell
q member Of the staff Of the paper, wht
has spsnt some time ct the seat Of wal
gathering the facts upon which tho lettel
Is based. The correspondence 10 Of 4
most interesting and thrilling nature and
pulports to be the first true statement ol
the affair which has yet appeared. The
correspondent Gays that twenty lives have
been sacrificed in the fOud, and that wo-
men and children were not spared. he
alleges that the Hatfield. Mccoy troubles,
meayer reports Of which have been cur.
rent for q month, have been threatening
for several days to develop into serious
interstate complications. Governor Buck.
ner, Of Kentucky, and Governor Wilson,
OF West Virginia, have had portions Of
the troops OF their respective States avail
able for operations on the banks OF the
Tug river, ostensibly to take care Of the
Interests OF these Sovereign States" The
soldiers, according 10 lost reports, have
lbeen ordered bRck 10 their homes, but
THAT Is no indication that the troubles are
ended.
The Hatfeld.McCoy war, diyeated OF
the coloring with which asgiduous cores
pondents have clothed It, and OF all the
aentiment with which the representatives
OF the two States have invested 1t, is sim.
ply succession Of cowardly murders by
by night. All OF the murders have been
Cruel, heartless and almost without tho
shadow Of provoCStion. Given, on the
one hand, family with its ContingentD Of
the same blood, allied aud Cemented by Q
common desire to ayenge an imaginary
affront, and on the other another family,
small in the matter Of alliance and collat-
eral sympathies, doomed to destruction by
the larger one, and the case is stated.
INTERESTING CoSCLUsIoNs.
Several columns Of history" relating to
the feud follow, based upon information
derived from reputable sources, and the
details OF all the murders and outrages
and recent capture Of some Of the particle
pants are given minutely. Nearly all
these facts have already been published
In a iragmentary way and the correspond
ent's report confirms them in detail.
The most important developments in
the correspondence, are at its conclusion
as follows:
THE CRowNIEG PIECE OF DRvILTRY
in connection with the feud was reserved
for the night Of January l, 1855, when
thirteen Of the Hatfield gang, headed by
James Vance, surrounded the Paul Nc.
Coy homestead, near the mouth OF Pond
Greek, burned the house with its contents,
killed the son and daughter, beat the
mother over the head with the butt Of q
gun till they thought she was dead, and
left the little children to die in the cold
on the mountain side among the bushes,
to which they had escaped In their night
clothes. While the house was burning
the father and husband fred two shots
with tellingefect. Three new.made graves
are TO be found in the Hatfield settlement,
and a number Of the gang are known to
be wounded.
After burying the dead, Mccoy removed
his family TO Pike Court House last week.
The story was obtained principally from
Mr.. and Mrs. Mccoy, who show unmis-
taxable evidences OF the intensity Of their
suferings, and is
FULLY CoRRoBORATED
by others. No one knows why the fiend-
ish malignity should have been kept up.
But once has Mccoy attempted to retail
ate. That was few days ago. Even now
no feeling Of resentment is manifest. He
spoke like o man who had been bent and
almost broken by the weight OF his atlllc-
tions and grief.
~ used 10 be on very friendly terms
with the Hatfelds before and after the
war. We never had any trouble till SIX
years ago." he continued. ~ hope no
more OF US will have to die. I'll be glad
when it's all over"
The killing OF Calvin and Alfara on the
might Of January lat became known the
next day at the County Court house.
Measures were taken at once TO capture or
kill portion Of the Hatfelds. Twenty
or thirty men under Deputy Sheriff Trask
Phillips crossed the Tug near Pond Greek,
in Pike county, Kentucky, on January g..
Within thirty yards Of the house Mrs.
Vance hailed Phillips with "Who are you
and where are you Roing"
"Who are you aud where are you 90
ing?" was his rejoinder.
"Ithink they are after you, pap, shrek
ed the bold woman, and moment later
Old Vance arose from his concealment be-
hind her. During the shooting which
followed Vance was killed.
On the night OF January 8, Phillips and
posse arrested Valentine Hatfeld, three
MSyhorn brothers, Tom Chambers and
Rev Yancey, Selkirk Mccoy and Moses
Christian. Others Of the Hatfislda were
captured in Mcdowell county, West Va,
about the same time, and landed In Pike
county jail.
On January 10, Sheriff Phillips and
posse charged old "Ance" and Compan-
ions, and all fed except Jim Dunpany,
who was killed by Jim Mccoy, an uncle
Of Randall Mccoy.
Mr.. Howell then proceeds with his mar
rative as follows:
THR PRISONERS IN JAIL.
Isaw all Of the prisoners this morning
in the Pike jail. They are oil confined in
two email cells, Tho jail ia small one,
but 1t Is as we'll built as any in the coun.
try and all appliances for the detention oil
prisoners are as good. The prisoners are
good types Of their locality. Old "Wall''
Hatfield is tall, powerful, well.propor.
toned man. He has iron.gray hair and
moustache to match while pair Of rough,
shaggy eyebrows almost conceal eyes Of q
greenish gray that are forever eyading the
the person with whom their owner may
be talking. Cool and eeli-posssssad at al