Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-01-11
VERY BAD BOY.
Willie Soils Initiated by Another
Youngster.
Dastardly Attempt to Murder Whole
Family In Ford County,
Great Fire at the Worlds
Fair Grounds.
A BOY Assassin.


Walker, a boy of s16 years, is in jail in
this city charged with one of the most
fendish crimes ever committed in this
county of many murders-the proba BILE
assassination of three persons, one an
innocent abe, and the serious wound
ing of another.
Sunday night about o'clock farmer
named William Kimbrel, his wife and
child, aged Is months, and the wife's
sister were retiring, all in the same
room, at Knnbrels home in Ford coun-
ty, about seventeen miles southwest of
this p ace. Mr. Kimbrel had just laid
down on the bed. His wife was sitting
by the fire with the child. Suddenly
some fend fired load OF buckshot
through the south window at Mr..
Kimbrel. the entire charge taking ef-
feet in his face, neck and shoulder.
kimb brel fell off the bed to the floor.
His wife, with the child, and her sister.
ran to him and were bending over
him when another charge of
shot was fred, this time through
the north window, into the
group with terrible effect. Mrs. Kim
brel was struck in the side, the child
about the head and the wife's sister in
the face. Mrs. Kim 0rel fell with the
child to the floor, both proba bly, fatally
hurt The sister started for the stable
to get horse to go for assistance. At
the stable she met a young man named
Joseph Walker. He asked her if she
had heard the firing. She told him the
Kimbrel family were all killed. They
then started in different directions for
help. Both returned in a short time
with some neigh bors.
1t was found that Kimbrel had one
eye shot out and his jugular vein was
badly torn and bleeding profusely.
The wife had an ugly wound in her
side The child was struck with shot
about the temple. At2 o'clock yester-
day morning Il messenger came to
Dodge after DIR. Milton and Sheriff
Beeson, who at once started for the
scene of the tragedy On the arrival of
the sheriff Mrs Kim brel's sister ac-
cused young Walker of doing the shoot
ing. Walker lives about one and a
quarter miles from the Kindred house
Mr.. Kindred says he saw young
Walkers dogs about his house a short
time before the shooting occurred.
Walker saws four men on horse back
f~cd 1T lri.c near his hasIse nd that he
started for the Kimbrel house when he
heard shooting in that direction. The
footprints in the ground around the
Kimbrel windows correspond with
those made by Walkers shoes.
Sheriff Beeson returned at noon with
young Walker in charge, and locked
him up in jail.
Worlds Fair Fire.
CHICAGO, Jan. 9.-The worlds fair
Pompeii came last night. A rushing
volcano of flame, huge gothic archi-
lecture tumbling into chaos, bewildered
mobs of people-all were there under a
great starry sky of Italian clearness,
with Lake Michigan's broad eXpanse a
second Mediterranean.
Probably no more magnificent, yet
terrifying, spectacle has ever been wit
messed this side of the Atlantic.
1t was long after dark when belated
people returning from work to their
homes in the southern suburbs along
the elevated road. familiar to hundreds
of thousands of worlds fair visitors,
noticed constantly en1arging column
OF fire ascending slxyward in the east
THE worlds fair is on fire." was the
cry, and few indeed of the fascinated
watchers from the train windows
alighted until the famous terminal a,
the exposition grounds was reached.
The fire had been burning less thar
an hour when a thunderous crash OF
falling timber and n tremendous shout
went up from the crowd announcing
the collapse of the peristyle A mo-
ment later another terrific yell from
the crowd told that the liberal arts
building had caught fire, and that
the whole exposition was threatened
dramatic incident marked the
destruction of the peristyle. One ot
the ladders bearing up group of fire
men fell with the columns and one o1
the heroic fire fighters went down tc
death, while number of others suf
fered injuries more or less severe. The
sky was l1vid, brilliant at this time
with falling sparks, many Of which
fen away to the north, showering the
roofs OF the art palace, women's build
ing and the various state structure:
with fire.
Shortly after IL o'clock, four firemer
were caught beneath a crush of falling
timbers just outside the manufactures
building Streams of water were in
stantly poured upon the mass and soor
the injured men were removed. Theil
names could not be ascertained by the
chief, but it is said all of the men were
unconscious when rescued and that tive
of them are fatally. injured
The origin of the fire is said to be re
venge on the part of a couple of tramp
who had been kicked out of the grounds
During its progress an army of idler
collected and it was impossible to keel
them from carrying away property
The loss at present cannot be esti
mated.
The Union Pacific Wreck
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. Beside
the three men who are known to hav
been burned to death in the Linwoot
wreck on the Union Pacific railwa,
Tuesday, two who We're known to hav,
shipped cattle are missing and anothe
is thought to have been lost. If tn