Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-07
vANDALs PUT TO DEATH.

JOHNSTOWN, IA, June 2.-Ihe way
of the transgressor in the desOlated
valley of the Conemaugh is hard, in
deed. 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 10 the tiends
who have dared TO desecrate the stiff
aud mangled corpses in the city of
the dead, and torture the already
half-craZed victims of the cruelest
of modern cataStropheS. As the roads
to the lands around 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 brought to light.
Just as the shadows began to fall
upon the earth last evening a party
of thirteen Hungarians were noticed
stealing their way along the banks
of the Conemaugh towards Sang
Hollow. Suspicious of their purpose,
several farmers armed themselves and
started i'll pursuit. Soon their most
horrible fears were realized. The
Hungarians We're out for plumber.
Living upon the shore they came up
on the dead and mangled body of a
woman, upon whose person their
eagerness TO secure the plumber the
Huhgarians got into squabble, dur
ing which one of the number severed
tbs finger upon which were the rings
and started on run with his fearful
prize. The revolving nature of the
deed so wrought up on the pursuing
farmers, who by this time were close
at hand, that they gave immediate
chase. Some of the Hungarians
showed fight, but being outnumbered
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 linhu-
man monster, whose atrocious act
has been described, was among the
number of the involuntary suicides.
Another incident of even greater
moment has just been brought to
notice. AT $50 o'clock 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 Curran-
vile, and said: Gentlemen, had | q
shot gun with Inc half an hour ago |
would now be murderer, yet with
no fear of ever having to suffer for
nv crime Two miles below here |
watched three men going about the
banks stealing the jewels from the
bodies of the dead wives and daugh-
ters 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
tarrihln 1At Nuritrnn
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
twenty minutes, so it is stated, they
had overtaken two of their victims,
who were then in the act of cut
ting 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 "
With blanched faces and trembling
forms they obeyed the order and
begged for mercy. They were search
ed, and as their pockets were emptied
TO their CHASTITY finds the indignation
of the crowd intensified, and when a
bloody finger of an infant, encircled
with two tiny gold rings, was found
among the plumber in the leaders
pocket cry went up: Lynch them!
Lynch themr Without a moments
delay ropes were thrown around
their necks and they were dangling
to the limb of tree in the branches
of which an hour before was entang-
led the bodies of dead father and
son. After the expiration of half
hour the ropes were cut and the
bodies lowered and carried to pile
ofrocks in the forest on the hill above.