New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COLONEL GOODLOE WORSE,
THE WOUNDED MAN UNDERGOES A HEROIC
OPERATION.
STATEMENTS OF EYE-wITNEssEs OF THE DUEn
TO THE DEATH IN THE LExING.
TON PoSTOFFICl

TON PosToFFICE.
Lexington, KY, Nov. 0.-Colonel Goodloe ~
a :4O p. N. to-day underwent an operation. He
was under the influence of anaesthetics and no
reporters were allowed in the operating room.
Alarming symptoms set in this afternoon, Colo
mel Goodies pulse was / 20, and temperature I05
This evening an Associated Press representative
interviewed DR.. Conner, OF Cincinnati. The doctor
said: " We have Just performed heroic operation
on Colonel Goodloe. The operation showed a per-
foratlon Of the omentum and the bowels The
omental adhesions had already formed, and the
bowel wounds were closed consider his copdi-
tion very critical and think there is very littis
hope of his recovery
An eyewitness of the Swope Goodloe fight SAW:
" 1 was standing in the money department in the
lobby of the postofice when l saw Colonel Swope
and Colonel Goodloe at their boxes, getting mail
| heard angry words pass between them. They
then turned toward each other ard Swope drew
his pistol, Goodloe drawing knife at the same
instant. The two men rushed at each other
Swope fired and then Goodloe stabbed him.
do not think Swope hit Goodloe at the first shot,
but the first thrust from Goodloe's knife was un.
doubedly fatal one, as Swope staggered back;
with Goodloe closely following. and stabbing
rapidly. Swope turned slightly and fired again,
this time hitting Goodoe in the abdomen. Swope
then retreated, with Goodoe right after him.
Harry Swift, the distributing clerk Of the post
office, who putting the mail into the boxes
when the tragedy occurred, says: Swope and
Goodloe were waiting in the corridor Swopa
had emptied his box and holding his letters
and papers in his hands when few words passed
between them. simultaneously they pulled their
weapons Swopes pistol was leveed at Goodloe's
head, but his hand was pushed aside just the
pistol went off. The ball struck the glass front
of 362, smashing the glass; and the ball giancina
upward. Another shot followed the first very
quickly, and as the two men were close together
this evidently was the ball which took effect in
Goodoes abdomen. Swope put both hands con.
vulsvely against his breast and staggered forward
and fell upon his face just at the front door of the
custom house. Both men scowled and snarled
like mad panthers, and it evident from the
first that it was to be fight to the death
No one appeared to be in the lobby; at least, no
one interfered."
Postmaster McChesney says: I was drawing
q money order when | heard ssme loud words
and two shots in the lobby. l rushed to the
in desperate encounter. Swope was backing
away and uttering loud eXcamations, and Good
loe repeatedly sttbbng him all the time"
After the aifray the news was Immediately sent
carriage to the hotel where her wounded husband
lay. One of Colonel GOOdloe's daughters tainted
when she heard the news.
Colonel Swope said few days ago that he
knew if he and Goodloe met the issue would be
DEATH and said that in such case he preferred to
be the slain rather than the slayer for the
that Colonel Goodloe bad a large family dependens
upon him.