Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 18??-????, 1889-06-04

weather Indications
Showers. slightly warmer, south erly
winds.
FIENDs IN HUMAN FORM.
Tretehes Caught PIundering and sIutilat
ing the Dead Pour of Them Are
Driven Into the River


JoHNsTowN. June 3.-The way of the
transgressor in the desolated valley of
the Conemaugh Is hard, indeed. Each
hour reveals some new and horrible
story of suffering and outrage, and every
succeeding hour brings news of swift
and merited punishment meted out to
the fiends who have dared to desecrate
the stiff and mangled corpses in the city
of the dead, and torture the already half
crazed victims of the cruelest of modern
csitastrophies. As the roads to the lands
round about are opened tales of almost
indescribable horror come TO light, and
deeds of the vilest nature perpetrated in
the darkness of the night are reported.
just as the shadows began to fall upon
the earth Saturday evening party OF
thirteen Hungarians was noticed
stealthily picking their way along the
banks of the Conemaugh toward Sang
Hollow. Suspicious of their purpose.
several farmers armed themselves and
started in pursuit.
Numbering the Dead.
Soon their most horrible fears were
realized. The Hungarians were out foI
plumber. Lying upon the shore they
came upon the dead and mangled body
Of Il woman, upon whose person there
were a number of trinkets of iewelry
and two diamond rings. In their efforts
to secure the plumber the Hungarians
got into a squabble, during which one of
their number severed the finger upon
which were the rings and started on
run with his fearful prize.
The revolving nature of the deed SO
wrought upon the pursuing farmers,
who by this time were close at h. nd,
that they gave immediate chase. Some
of the Hungarians showed fight, but,
being outnumbered were compelled &c
flee for their lives. Nine of the brutes
escaped, but four were literally driven
into the surging river and to their death.
The inhuman monster whose atrocious
act has been described was among the
number OF involuntary suicides.
Another incident of even greater mo-
ment has just been brought to notice.
At $50 o'clock an old railroader, who
had walked from Sang Hollow, stepped
up TO number of men who were con
gregated on the platform of the station
at Curranviile and said:
Vengeance Is swift.
"Gentlemcn. had a shot gun with me
a half an hour ago, | would now be- a
murderer. yet with no fear of ever hav-
ing to suffer for my crime. Two miles
below here / watched tlifec men going
along the banks stealing Jewels from the
dead wives and daughters of men who
have been robbed of all they hold dear
ON earth.
He had no sooner finished the last
sentence than five buriy men, with looks
of terrible dct srmin ltion written ON their
faces, We're on their way to the scene OF
plumber, one with a coil of rope over his
shoulder and another with revolver IN
his hand. In twenty minutes, so il is re-
lated, they had overtaken two of their
victims. who were then in the act of
cutting pieces from the ears, and fingers
from the hands of the bodies of two dead
women. With revolver leveled at the
scoundrels the leader of the posse
shouted:
Throw up your hands or I'll blow
your heads Off.
Two Villains Lynched.
With blancied faces and trembling
forms they ol,eyed the order and begged
for mercy They were searched, and as
their pockets were emptied of their
plumber. the indignation Of the crowd
intensified. and when the bloody finger
of an infant. encircled with two tiny
gold rings, was found in the leaders
pockets a cry went up tolynch them.
Without a moments delay ropes were
thrown around their necks. and they
were dangling to the limbs of a tree. in
the branches of which, an hour before,
was dangled the bodies of a dead father
and son After an expiration Of half an
hour the ropes were cut and the bodies
lowered and carried TO pile of rocks in