Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-06
AWFUL WORK.
Drunken Italians Accused ID
Wholesale SleEghter.
A FAMILY OF s:..,EN MURDERED.
Terrible Affair at . Colorado Dance-Hun
and Slav Factions Have a Battle
at Church at Cleve-
land, O.

CATLErrsBURG, KY. Aug. SIN
Wayne county, West Virginia, Friday
night Mr.. Brum6eld, his wife and five
children were murdered by a party of
Italian railroad laborers
The Italians were employed on the
Norfolk & Western railroad and Friday
night about fifty of them got drunk and
going to the home of Brumfield, who
was reported to have much money, they
demanded admittance.
When refused entry, with rails and
clubs the Italians began an attack.
Brumfeld and his two half grown sons
made brave defense, but seem to have
had no arms
The assailants finally broke in the
doors and windows and beat Brumfield
and the boys to death with clubs They
then cut their threats and stabbed
them repeatedly.
The fiends then seized the wife and
three younger children and put them to
death.
After searching the place for valu-
ables the wretches burned the house to
the ground.
It is said that enemies of Brumfeld
melted the Italians to the foul crimes
DEATH AT A DANCE
DURANGO, Col, Aug. AT a dance
in the Blue mountains last Saturday
night, while all were enjoying the
evening, Tom Roach insisted on dancing.
He was drunk and armed with knife
and six shooter and was told that the
sets were all full, and requested not to
interfere with the persons already on
the floor.
Roach declared that he would dance
and attempted to remove a dancer from
the floor. This was resented and the
parties became engaged in scuffie
when Frank III. Hyde, son of a Mancos
merchant, attempted to end the disturb
ance. Roach, turning on Hyde. vicious
" stabbed him with a knife, infiicting
dangerous wounds in several places
Roach left the room but continued to
act in disorderly manner and Billie
McCord, a cowboy belonging to the
IL. c." outfit, tried to pacify him by
going out where he was and talking to
him. This seemed to enrage him more
than ever, and, drawing his revolver,
he killed McCord on the spot.
By this time the excitement was be
coming intense and as no one was
armed the people were almost panic
stricken. A boy slipped away to a
house near by, and securing a Win
chester. returned to the school house.
He took aim and fired, but missed
Roach and killed Mrs. Charles E. Wal
ton, an estimable woman living in the
community. Roach escaped.
A BATTLE IN CHURCH.
CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 3.-The congre-
cation of st. Lodi's Catholic church is
made up of Hungarians and Slavs.
about evenly divided, and there has
been great rivalry between the two ma
tionalities- Finally the priest, Father
Maratovel, decided to hold services for
the Slavs in the morning and for the
Hungarians in the afternoon.
Yesterday morning the Hungarians
wished to dedicate a banner and the
priest gave them half of the service
When he began to speak in Bohemian
the Hungarians left the church and
created disturbance outside. The
Slavs went out and drove the Hungari-
ans from the church, using clubs and
paving stones
A battle was in progress when the
police arrived and put a stop to the
hoStilitieS. 1t was necessary to take
the priest to his home under police es-
cort. No one was seriously injured,
but there was great excitement around
the church all the afternoon.