The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06

ing and roaring, carrying everything before it.
For mile its front seemed like solid wall 20
feet high"
A HEROINE.
Mrs. Ogle, the Manageress of the Western
Onion, who died at her post, will go down in
history as heroine of the highest order. Not
withstanding the repeated notifications which
she received to get out of the reach of the APP
preaching danger, she stood by the instrument
with uniinching loyalty and undaunted cour-
age sending words of warning TO those in dan
ger in the valley below. When every station
in the path of the coming torrent had been
warned she wired her companion at South
Fork, This is my last message" and as such
it shall always be remembered as her last words
on earth, for at that very moment the torrent
engulied her and bore her from her post on
earth to her post of honor in the great beyond.
THE MOST AWFUL DESTRUCTION
in a single house occurred at the Hurlbut Ho-
tel. There were 81 people in the house when
the torrent came down, and of these only 10
are living. Four travellers, who were staying
at the Hurlbut, went to the fourth floor when
the food came, aud after wishing each other
good-by" surrendered themselves to fate.
Fate was death to three of them. Those three
were John Little, Sewickly; w. J. Cox, Phil
adelphia, and r. S. Metz. The one survivor is
john Dorsey, of Philadelphia. The register of
the wrecked hotel cannot be found, so it is i'm
possible to give the names of all those who
persisted in the Hurlbut House. Those who
are known to have persisted are Elmer Brinker
and DR.. Brinker, two brothers, two Mrs. Rich
ards, man named Butler, Mrs, Miss and
Lewis Benford, mother, sister and brother of
the proprietor. Mrs. Smith and her two chill
dren assembled to the fourth floor with the four
travellers when the flood came. The woman
was drowned and the man escaped.
Lynciing the GhouIs.
SUMMARY PUNISHMENT OF FTENDs WHO WERE
R0BBING THE DEAD.
PTTTsBURG, Pa, June 5, 18S9.-A number
of Hungarians collected about a number of
bodies at Cambria which had been washed up
and began riaing the trunks. After they had
secured ali the contents they turned their at
tention to the dead.
The CHASTITY spectacle presented by the dis
torted features of those who had lost their lives
during the food had no influence upon the
ghouls, who acted more like wild beasts than
human beings. They took every article from
the clothing on the dead bodies, not leaving
anything OF value or anything that would
serve TO identify the remains.
After the miscreants had removed all their
plumber to dry ground dispute arose over
division of the spoils. A pitched battle fol-
lowed, and for a time the situation was alarm
ing Knives and clubs were used freely. As
n result several OF the comhatants were wound
ed and left on the ground, their fellow-coun-
trymen not making any attempt to remove
them from the field of strife
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June Sill a. m-They
have just hung man over near the railroad to
the telegraph pole for cutting the finger off of
a dead woman in order to get a ring.
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 aud outrage, and every succeeding
hour brings news of swift and merited punish
ment melted out to the iends 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
catastrophes.
FOLLOWED BY AVENGING FARMERS.
Just as the shadows began to fall upon the
earth last evening a party of Is Hungarians
| were noticed stealthily picking their way along
the banks of the Conemaugh toward Sang Hol-
low. Suspicious of their purpose, several
| farmers armed themselves and started in pur-
suit. Soon their most horrible fears were real
lied. The Hungarians were out for plumber
Lying upon the shore they came upon the
dead and mangled body of q woman upon
! whose person there were number of trinkets
! of jeWelry and two diamond rings In their
| eagerness to secure the plumber the Hungari-
ans got into squabble, during which one of
| the 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 far
mers, who by this time were close at
! hand. that they gave immediate chase Some
/ of the Hungarians showed fight, but being out
numbered, were compelled to 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
l at ~.
number of the involuntary suicides. Another
| incident of even greater moment has just been
brought to notice.
| ANXIOUS To BE MURDERER.
As $50 this morning an old railroader who
| had walked from Sang Hollow stepped up to a
number of men who were congregated on the
platform station at CurranYilleand said: Gen.
/ tlemen, had / a shotgun with me half an hour
ago would now be a murderer yet with no
/ fear of ever having to suffer for my crime
Two miles below here | watched three men
| going along the banks stealing the jewels from
| the bodies of the dead wives and daughters of
men who have been robbed of all they held
dear on EARTH"
He had no sooner finished the last sentence
| than five burly men, with looks of terrible de.
termination written on their faces were on
their way to the scene of plumber one with a
coil of rope over his shoulder and another with
| a revolver in his hand. In 90 minutes, so it is
stated, they had Overtaken two of the Wretches
who were then in the act of cutting pieces from
the ears and fingers from the hands of two
| dead women.
BRUTEs AT BAY.
| With revolver leyelled at the scoundreIs the
! leader of the posse shouted, Throw up your
hands or I'll blow your heads Oft" With
| blanched faces and trembling forms they obeyed
the order and begged for mercy. They were
| searched, and as their pockets were empted of
! CHASTITY finds the Indignation of the crowd in
tensifed and when a bloody finger of an infant,
encrcled with two tiny gold rings, was found
among the plumber in the leaders pocket, a
cry went up
Lynch them! Lynch them!" Without
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 entangled the bodies of a dead
father and SON.
After the expiration of half hour the ropes
were cut, and the bodies lowered and carried to
pile of rocks in the forest on the hill above.
1t is limited that an Allegheny County official
was one Of the most prominent actors in this
| justifable homicide.
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