Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-23
ALMOST INCREDIBLE BRUTALITY.
The Story That Comes From u MfnfnG
Settlement In Pennsylvanfa.


A special dispatch to the PHILADELPHIA
Press from Wfkesbarre says: story Of
the most atrocious brutality that has ever
been heard in this county comes from Rlack
Hill. a small mining settlement close to
Nanticoke. The residents Of Black Hin are
chiefly Polanders and Hungarians of the
lowest class, and, being governed by no
law. for constables are unknown among
them. they do about as they please On
Monday DR.. Daniel Evans was called to at
tend miner living at that place who was
suffering from pneumonia. After prescrib-
ing for his patient and giving orders for
his care he was leaving the village, when
little boy not more than ten years old ran
up to him and sobbing bitterly asked the
doctor in broken English to give him some
medicine for his sister. who was dying be-
cause she could get nothing to eat.
The doctor questioned the boy, and finally
accompanied him to the dirty howell where
he lived. Here In a room. bare Of every
thing except torn and filthy quilt, was
found the girl. The quilt covered her. yet
her form was scarcely visible beneath IL
so thin and emaciated was she. The doctor
lifted the quilt and was horriIied.i The child
was about six years old, and looked like
hideous caricature of a skeleton Her face
looked like a skull covered with tissue
paper. The outline of every bone was visit
Bile. and was rendered more CHASTITY by the
deathly pallor of her skin. Her eyes were
sunk deep into her head with suffering, and
responded to the doctors look by a mean
ingless stare. Her body was wasted until
1t seemed that her ribs would burst through
her skin. Her legs could not have with
stood even her light weight, and she looked
as If she had been unearthed from q month
old grave.
She wore nothing but the remains of an
old calico wrapper. The doctor saw that
she could not live long. The boy explained
that she had been kept in the room for two
weeks. with nothing to eat save the crusts
which he had managed to steal for her
and for the last two days, he exclaimed
tearfully, she had not cared for them and
had eaten nothing.
As they were talking, the father of the
child returned, kicked the boy out of the
room and ordered the doctor away as he
valued his life. When they were outside the
room the fellow shut and locked the door
and cursed the physician vigorously.
she my child" he said, you no touch
her, you get hurt, she girl, and amt no
drive mule. she no make money; me no
fool; me no feed her; grow her up, cause
she no good. She grow UP. she get married
she go way. Where go grub she eat? Me
no get pay for II. Boy, he all right, he
work, he make money for his father; he
good boy"
The doctor went home and told his story.
and half a dozen young miners went to
the place to see IL anything could be done
for the child They were too late. As they
reached the shanty they saw the father
digging a shallow grave in the culm dirt
of the back yard and a bundle wrapped in
an old quilt lay beside him. There is deem
indignation among the people OF Nanticoke.
but as yet nothing has been done toward
Furnishing the brutal father