The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-11-07
SWIFT VENGEANCE.
A WAR OF DIFFERENTIATION GOING
ON IN WEST VIRGINIA.

Hundreds of Men Lying in Ambush for
Their Neighbors and Shooting Them
Down Like Dogs. All the Result of a
Family Feud.
PARKERsBuRG, w. Va, Nov. l.
The latest information from Lincoln
county, the scene of the double lynch
ing, confirms the first report and adds
to the enormity of the crime. Green
Mccoy andSMilt Haley, the victims,
before they were murdered, confessed
that in attempting to kill the Brum-
fields they were carrying out a writ
ten contract made between them and
certain parties whose names were not
given, the consideration of which was
$500. A band of regulators, it is
claimed, exists in that neighborhood,
who engage persons to commit MUIR
der. Mccoy and Haley were selected
to kill the Brumfelds, who were re-
garded as very obnoxious The al
legged Iynchers were part of the posse
that were conducting Mccoy and Ha
ley to Jail.
After the Brumfelds had been at
tackled. a party was formed to avenge
themselves upon the Brumfield assail-
ants. A dozen of this party went to
the sheriff and rendered their assist
ance to escort HALEY. and Mccoy t~
Jail. They started with the prisoners
to the county seat. They were COM
PEELED to remain over night at the
house of man named George Fry.
During the night, when the sheriff was
asleep, the rest Of the party took the
the prisoners to the woods Then they
demanded that they confess to the
Brum6eld murder, and when the pris-
oners told the story, the twelve men
dubbed them till they were insensi-
BILE. TEey then beat their heads al
most to jelly and strung them to a
tree. While hanging, their bodies
were riddled with bullets.
| The report that the lynci ers went to
the Jail is untrue, as the best accounts
say there were no lynchers except the
posse who were supposed to be pro
tecting the prisoners. That there will
be any uprising of the people, or thai
they are armed or divided into factions
and ready to fight, is generally denied
What gave rise to the story is the fact
that two or three men bought quite 6
quantity Of ammunition this week al
Huntington but it was for proper
pun poses.
Mrs. Brnmfeld, who was so brutal
! ly beaten, is said to be dying.
FATAL EXCHANGE OF sHOEs
MILTON, w. Va, Nov. 1.-Th,
Hatfield Mccoy feud appears to hav'
become a war Of determination. Th,
Brumfield family, frenzied by tn,
murder of AL Blnmfeld and his wife
have joined the Hatfelds, raising thei
numbers 10 250 men.
On Wednesday, John and Charles
Blumfield and George Hatfield wen
to Huntington, enlisted about a doze,
; of their relatives who work in the Gin
! cinnati & Ohio shops, bought abou
: one hundred repeating rifles, one hun
dred and twenty-five revolvers an,
several thousand cartridges, and load
f ing the goods into ten wagons starte
' for the scene of the feud.
8 While at supper that night at tn
e farm house of Mrs. James Brown
b who was born Hatfield, the part
e was fired at from ambush. The Hat
o fields returned the volley, but in tn
8 darkness could not see with what RI
e suit. Johu Brumfeld, the leader, wa
o wounded, and after the firing, Mr..
}. Brown was found lying dead in he
o house with bullet through her necl
t The excitement here is intense, an
Q the Governor will be asked to sen
e troops here.
e MILTON, w. VA, Nov. 2.-Repor
of another terrible battle between til
Hatfelds and McCoys reached hel
last night. Thursday night part
of about thirty of the McCoys can
across Brumfield camp in the wooe
a about six miles from Green Shoal
y Both parties were bound for the hea'
}, quarters of their respective faction
: and were heavily armed. When tt
n McCoys discovered their enemies, the
p crawled up through the dense unde
E brush and poured in volly ON the
Ie sleeping foes. In an instant it was +
b turned, and the Hatfielas, though t,
d ken by surprise, were so much bett'
d armed than the McCoys, having r.
j. peating rifles, that they soon put the
le to fight. The one volley fired by tt
y McCoys did terrible execution. Hs
re dozen men were wounded and tv
n were slain.
Ut After dawn the Hat6elds found ty
ID more dead men, and four desperate
e. wounded men were captured Son
.e of the wounded McCoys must ha'
It been carried off by their friends,
OF the trail of their retreat through Il
woods was marked with blood stair
The prisoners captured are Charl
Lambkin, John Cain, - Cain al
Pete Mccoy. Names of the dead a
unknown.
in As soon as the story of the Alta
tn and capture was told sort of cou
hit martial as held. The prisoners we
us not allowed to spea ak in their own d
n tense, and after u short deliberation
he vote ON their life or death was tax
r. by the entire Hatfield party. The
ia suit was unanimous, and the thI
dy men will be tied to trees and shot
les sunrise today.
in The courier who brought this ne
hit was shot at twice from ambush wh
riding through Lincoln county,