St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-14
KNITTED IN HIS vITALS.
Another Tragedy on the Be-
hemian Flats, the Result
of a Row.
Mike Rockvimer Stabbed in
the Back by PitileSs As
Sailants.
Clashing Nationalities Seek
to Settle a Long-Stand-
ing Feud.
Seven Participants in the
ARRAY Arrested by the
Police.

Closely following the sensational muir
der of Frank Kohout, another tragedy
was enacted last night on the upper
flats, resulting from the war of clashing
nationalities which has been unremit-
tingly waged during the past six months
between the Germans, Bavarians and
Bohemians on one side-an Polanders
on the other. At a shanty located near
the river on "Polecat alley" which is a
branch road running from the main
thorOughfare through disreputable
section of the flats, large party of Po-
landers were dancing, playing cards
and drinking beer. -Four men, who left
the place about IL o'clock badly intoxi-
Gated. proceeded UP the alley to
the main broad. where they met
and became engaged in an alteration
with Joe Heissler, a German in the en-
ploy of the Delaney stock yards. The
men came to blows and Heissler was
knocked down. The noise of the fight
ing men called out the entire party from
the shanty down the alley. Three Of
HeisSler'S friends heard the cries of the
enraged POlanderS and
HIS CALL FOR HELP,
and hurried to his assistance. Among
them was Mike Hockvimer, powerful
Bavarian, who has long been an open
enen.y.of the Polish element. On his
appearance the attention of the infuri
ated mob of men. women and boys was
diverted from Heissler, and the Bavarian
was attacked by the entire party. He
was felled to the ground by beer keg.
hurled at his head by Polander of
herculian proportions, but arose and
was attacked with clubs, knives and
boards and pounded until no longer
able to offer resistance. When the
Polanders withdrew from the scene of
the fight Hochvimer was left lying by
the roadway, bleeding profusely from
half a dozen serious knife wounds.
Heissler was badly bruised. but not
dangerously hurt. Hochvimer was re-
moved to his shanty, and the Waterman
from the stock yards telephoned to po-
lice headquarters for assistance. The
patrol wagon soon arrived with City
Physician Ancker, who attended the
wounded man. He was found to be
badly cut about the head, on the breast,
and the right leg just below the hip,
but his
MOST DANGEROUS WOUND
proved to be terrible cash in the back,
Just below the last rib and about three
inches to the right of the spine, the
knife having penetrated clear through
into the abdominal cavity. When the
surgeon reached him the bed on which
he lay had become completely saturated
with blood from his wounds. He was
afterwards removed to the city hospital,
where, a. last accounts, he still lay in a
very critical condition.
While the surgeon was attending the
wounded man the police were not slow
in hunting down the perpetrators of the
crime. William Limpeck, Matthias
Karzean, John Casperic, Gottleib Lack,
Mike ViUaski, John Dropziska and Joe
Ketzburger were identified as parties
to the fight and arrested. KetzDurger
is known to be one of the three men
who carried knives and did the stab
bling.
The scene of the fight was in the eX-
IRENE upper end of the flats, short dis
lance below the Milwaukee, railway
draw-bridge, a section of the city that
has no police protection whatever, and
where many brutal rows occur that are
not known to the outside world.