The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-04-26
HEARTRENDlKC SCENES.
The People of Northern Donegal Wit
ness a Three Days Eviction
Campaign There.
MURDER AND DEVASTATION
Old Men and Helpless Women Thrown Out
on the Roadside to StarVe
to Death.

to Death.
a correspondent of the Dublin Free
mans Journal gives che following heart
rending account OF eyictions he wit
messed in Donegal Writing on March
26 he says:
At O'clock this morning the little
village of Falcarragh possessed an un-
wonted appearance. Mounted orderlies
were prancng to and fro, the clang of
arms and steel again resounded, and
the district once more assumed that ap
pearance of military possession which
evoked 50 much attention during the
prosecution of Mr.. Conybeare and ON
other occasions. It had been at first
intended that this campaign should be
one of gigantic dimensions, and that an
entire countryside should be laid waste,
but judicious regard for the feelings
of the British electorate induced the
government to apply some ''pressure''
within the law. The remaining evic-
tion DEGREES on the Swiney and Stewart
estates have been allowed TO lapse. but
the powers that be on the Olpnert es-
tate have proved themselves
DETERMINED TO EXACT THEIR POUND
OF FLESH.
The force consisted of large body of
I'm rinS~ ~ T0v1 ,fc,-
sioner Cameron, County Inspector
Milling and District Inspectors Hill,
McCatfrey and Flower, as we'll as a
detachment of soldiers from the Royal
North Lancashire, corps with earned
its reputation on very different fields
indeed. Father McFadden, Father
Boyle and Father McNelis were present
throughout the day.
The scene of the eyictions was Glass
erchoo. the fringe Of which is washed
by the Atlantic. The land is OF a
rocky and sterile nature, and the pow
erty Of the people almost defes descrlp-
tion. Formerly 1t was an uncultivated
tract of mountain and moor. without
any inhabitants. and it is scarcely ne
cessarY to say that since then the land
lord has never expended farthing on
its improvement or reclamation. 1t is
this town which Mr.. r.. W. Russell
recently des scribed in the Times as the
most wretched portion of most wretch
ed district. One OF the first houses
marked out for eviction today was that
of D. widow Curran, and no sma] excite
ment was occasioned by the discovery
that another grim tyrant, death, had
done it's work before the arrival of the
myrmldons of the landlord. 1t appears
that the deceased had been in failing
health for sc me time past, and it is
thought that
THE SHOCK OF AN APPROACHING Ev1C-
served in no considerable degree to
hasten her death. Last evening her
illness had assumed an acute form, and
before morning she was dead.
Another very painful scene was wit
messed at the house of Bridget Magee,
whose mother had been evicted last
May, and had since resided with her.
Boil mother and daughter were living
i'll n the earthen floor, and the
whole scene was really painful to look
upon. Father McFadden objected to
the eviction proceeding until the army
surgeon should pronounce an opinion,
and DR.. Allen, whose fairness and
humanity are beyond praise, fused to
allow eviction to proceed. On
Father McFadden's application the
surgeon again inte,vened at the house
of james Curran, a helpless old man,
and the eviction was abandoned. The
forces then tramped across the bogs to
a wretched hovel similar to all those in
the townland. The ordinary structure
is about ten feet by six and FIVE feet in
height, and contains only one apart
meat. At night father, mother and
Ave or six Of the family are scattered
over the damp floor, and in the same
apartment with the family 8 cow, aud
perhaps calf. are tied to q stake few
feet distant From such a howell were
two poor sisters driven today, the
family Of one Of them being in Scotland
endeavoring to earn tbe rent to Keep
the old roof above their heads. In fact.
it is from service wages Of their daugh-
ters il Ireland and the harvest wages
Of their SONS in England and Scotland
that the poor tenants are able to gather
the rent at all. At the house,<of Alec
Ferry the family had literally to be
DRAGGED out, Including the mother and
daughter. and when the latter saw her
mother being pushed for ward her feel
ilnes overoame her, and she made d q