Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-25
POUNDED HIS LIfE OUT

d.
a Prixe-Fight Mt 1T Louis, In which
Thomas jackson Il Battered Into
Jelly, and Dies from the hffsct Of His
Heating His Slayer Ed Ahear.r-A S1ost
Barbarous Eleven. Round Battls.
ST Louis, Sept. Is Thomas b. ackson,
u years old, died here at ~ O. clock Tues
day OF injuries sustained In prize fioht
with Ed hhearn local Hght-waight cham-
pton, Monday night Jackson fought
gamely for eleven rounds, but fell ex-
hausted at the opening Of the twelfth, and
was Carl from tho ring. The battle was
fought In Daily Bros saloon. The specta-
C0rs were Local sports who made up Q
purse OF $50, for which tho men contested,
TWO-ounce hard gloves were used. The
fight opened ut midnight
The flrst round was not particularly
bloody, but in the second science, was
disregarded and the men went at each
other. pounding at random and with the
full force and brutality aroused by their
now vicious instincts. No one could keep
any count OF the blows exchanged, and the
spectators shouted and cheered with pleas
uro at the way In which the mon were
lighting. When time was called it
was hardly possible to distinguish one man
from the other. Their bodies wero striped
and blotched with blood, their tights
stained and their gloves slippery and
shiny. Hasty efforts were made with
water and sponges to remove some of the
blood from their bodies, but with little
success Both men were bleeding at the
nose. but there was not time to attend to
small matters like that, and the third round
was called and the men were pushed for
ward, bleeding and staggering.
Tho third fourth md fifth ro,r dn u,aro
repetitions of tht first two The floor was
beginning to got slippery from tho blood
Of the fighters, and the blows would
glance and slip, owing to the soggy
condition of the gloves When fair
straight blow would be struck by one or
the other of the fighters 1t would be 90
cOmpanled by squelching sound, and left
q round red spot darker than the bloody
skin around it. The men slipped and slid
ON the bloody floor and wiped the blood
from their eyes with their bloody gloves.
So 1t went until the end OF the tenth round,
In the eleventh round the men were so
weak they could scarcely come up Jack
son was q pitiful sight One eye was al
ready closed, his nose was swollen to twice
the ordinary size and his mouth was sim
ply sickentng Ahearn was much In tho
same condition, although not quite so bad
Both plucked up and made an attempt to
fight and did for a few seconds. Then
Ahearn with an effort struck Jackson q
swinging blow which tioored him. Ahearn,
thrown by his own effort, fell on top OF his
antagonist
When the time-keepers called time for
the twelfth round Jackson was put on his
feet by his seconds and started forward
toward the center of the ring He had
hardly taken n SGAn when he fell hacE int,
the arms of his seconds unconscious
and the desperate and sanguinar
contest was ut an end Jackson Wa
conveyed to an upper room in tho
saloon, where he died in awful agony Ita
mother, Mrs. George M jackson, wife 1T
the well-known Greenbacker, was at his
bedside when he died. The young
mans body was taken to the morgue Tues
day afternoon Its appearance is most
horrible. The lips hang in shreds as
though cut by the mans teeth ut every
blow he received. and form bloody fringe
through which the redeemed teeth show
CHASTITY. His face is one hv1d mass of bat
tered human flesh, black and blue and ter
ribly swollen.
Detectives were at once detailed to ar
rest principals, seconds, ETC., and specta-
tors Ed Ahearn, the surviving principal,
was found late in the afternoon and lodged
in jail He seems to be proud of the game
fight he made, but asserts that Jackson
must of had heart disease as he did not
hit him hard enough to kill him.
Later in the day Dan and Jack DAILY, pro-
prietors of the saloon where the fight oc-
CURED, Mike Mooney one of the seconds,
Abe Quincy and Stephen A. Malloy, time
keepers, were captured.