Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-06
LYNCHED THERUFFIANS
THE ROBBERS OF CORPsEs HANGED
TO A TREE.

Summary Punishment Inflicted ON Villains
Who Were Found Mutilating the COrpses
at tJOhnstOwn-What n Pittsburger Saw
as the Flood Came Down.
A Johnstown, Pa, dispatch says: The
way Of the transgressor in the desolated
valley of the Conemaugh is hard. Each
hour reveals some new and horrible story
of sufft ring and outrage and every sue
ceeding Lour biingi news Of swift and
merited punishment meted out to the iiends
who have dared to desecrate the mangled
corpses in the city of the dead and torture
TIE already half crazed victims Of tl Is
awful catastrophe.
AS tie roads to & Q lands round about
are opened tales Of almost indescribable Lor
ror come to light and deeds of the vilest
nature perpetrated in the darkness of nigat
are brought to light.
Just as the shadows began to fall upon
the ca tn last evening party OF thirteen
Hungarians were noticed stealthily pick
ing their way along the banks of the Cone
maugh toward Sang Hollow. Suspicious
of their purpose several farmers armed
themselves and started in purs 1T Soon
their most horrible fears were realized.
Lying upon the shore they came upon the
mangled body of a woman upon who's,
person were number Of trinkets Of jew
elry and two diamond rings
In their eage!ness to secure the plunder
one of their number severed the finger
upon which were the rings and sta ted on
a run with his fearful prize.
The revolving nature Of the deed so
wrought up the pursuing farmers that they
gave immediate chase. Some of the Hun
garians showed fight, but, being outnum-
bered, were compelled to fee for their
lives.
Nine Of the brutes escaped, but four
were literally driven into the surging liver
and to their death. The inhuman mon
ster whose atrocious act has been described
was among the number of the involuntary
suicides.
At $50 o'clock this moi ming an old
railroader who had walked from Sang
Hollow stepped up to a number of men
congregated on the station plato m at
Gu, ranville and said:
Gentlemen, had l shotgun with me
half an hour ago l would have shot TO
kill. Two miles below here / wat t,hed
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 stalwart men, with
looks of terrible determination written on
their faces, were on their way to the scene
of the plunder one with coil of rope
over his shoulder and another with re-
volver in his hand.
In twenty minutes, it is said, they had
overtaken two Of their victims who were
then in the act of cutting pieces from the
ears and fingers of two dead women. With
revolver leveled at the scoundrels the
leader of the posse shouted 'Throw up
your lands or I'll blow your heads off. T"
They obeyed the order and begged for
mercy. Their pockets were searched and
the indignation of the crowd was intensi-
fled when a bloody finger of an infant, en-
circled with two tiny gold rings was found
among the plunder in the leaders pocket.
A cry went up: Lynch them! Lynch
theml''
Without q moments delay ropes were
tn own around their necks and they were
dangling to the limbs OF tree. in the
branches of which an hour before was en-
tangled the bodies of dead father and
son.
1t is limited that an Allegheny county
official was one of the most prominent
actors In TINS tragedy.
The pillagjng of the houses in Johns
town is something awful to contemplate
and describ,. Men a1e carrying shotguns
and revolvers and woe betide the stranget
who looks even suspicio lsly at any arti-
Gle.
A supply store has been established in
the FouI tn ward in Johnstown. A line of
men, women and children, extending for a
square, waited patiently to have their
wants supplied.
The scnool house has been converted into
a morgue and the dead are being buried
from this place. A hospital has been
opened near by and IL full of patients.
A prominent member of the Johnstown
safety committee said to-day:
"For Gods sake tell them at Pittsburg
to stop the rush of sights seers. There is
enough here to last for weeks and the NOR
bid curiosity of these people can just as
well be gratified later as now. The crowd
Of curious greatly embarrasses us. The
authorities must stop it. !"
Adjt. Gen. Hastings, N. G. p, and
Major Sanger have assumed entire charge
of Johnstown. One effect of this system
attic work is making itself felt. One town
Is guarded by a company of the Sixth
regiment Lieut.. Leggett in command.
New members were sworn in by him and
they are making excellent soldiers.
Special police are numei Gus and the
regulations are so st let that even the
smoking of cigars is prohibited. Gen.
Hastings expresses the opinion that more
troops are necessary.
Alexander Hart is in charge of the
special police. He has lost his wife and
tamil, Notwithstanding this great mis-
fortune he is doing the work of Hercules
| in his own wav