Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-25
ALL HANDS ROUND.
A DONNYBROOK ROW AT ELM GROVE YES
TERDAY MORNING.
About Dozen Men in the Fight and One Of the
C0mbatants Dangerously Wounded-Ihs
Deails of Sanguinary Sunday
Scrap,

The REGISTER has to record another Sc
rious row at Elm Grove.
This is one of the worst that has been in
| the town for some time.
Ten young men figured in 1t, some, however,
as peacemakers, and one Of the comoatants,
a young man named John White, is danger
ously Injured. DR.. Harry Chambers says
that he does not know what the result of
Whites injuries will be, but it is feared his
skull is fractured. He is also badly beaten
up in other ways.
The row all grew out of plain ordinary
Wheeling stogie. About l o'clock yester-
day morning a group of young men were
standing near the B. & o. depot, in Elm
Grove. Edward Brown, colored, was in
toyicated. and he wanted TO give some OF
the other boys a stogie. Some one said
that if he gave the stogie away ne would be
whipped. This angered Brown, and he
wanted to fight William Wilson, young
white man in the crowd. Wilson did not
want TO fight, but the colored man would
have il that way, and the two got into
it. and fought for some time savagely.
Brown got the best of Wilson, and
had him down choking him. Wilson
called loudly for aid, but no one went
to his assistance for time. One or
the Young men who was standing near
was Jerry Westlake, young man or good
reputation, q son of B. +. Westlake, the
toll man of Elm Grove. Jerry said that he
could not stand by and see the colored man
choke Wilson to death, and so he joined in
the fight to save Wilson's life. John White,
the man who is so dangerously injured,
and who is now at MS home in a serious
condition, then joined in the row against
Westlake, striking Westlake and knocking
him down.
Then the scrap became general, and
| about ten men were soon implicated.
| Many of them seemed against Westlake,
| but even with the odds against him West
| lake, who IS a powerful young fellow,
seemed to hold his own until William
! White and William Robinson arrived
and Joined in the fight. About this
| time John White was knocked down by
| some of the fighters. He fell as though he
| had been shot, and it is thought he was hit
with q stone or some sort Of a oludgeOn.
| So many of the men in the fight being
| against Westlake he concluded he had TO
resort to some other means than his list,
| and he went to stone pile and began TO
! fire rocks at his assailants. While the
young man was on the stone pile using the
rocks some one of those after him whipped
out q revolver and fired two shots at West
lake. one ball Just grazing his head. At
this junCture Westlake made precipitate
retreat up the platform of the depot.
Spectators attracted TO the scene by the
noise, and seeing White laying on the
ground and bleeding, thought he was dead,
and hurried at once TO the home or Con-
stable John Anderson. 1t took the officer
but few minutes to get to the scene Of
the disturbance. The timely arrival OF
Mr.. Anderson and his quick action after
be got TO the scene, in all probability
saved White from being killed outright.
When the scraDpers saw the officer they
raa in ali directions, some Of them hiding
under the new platform at the depot.
None OF them were arrested at that
time, as most of the attention was
directed TO the injured man, who was lying
in an unconscious condition. He was car
ried to the Office of DR.. Harry i. Cham-
bers, near by, where the nature OF MS In
iuries were learned. There was terrible
Oruise in his head, and he was IN other
WAYS badly beaten. The injured young
man was soon taken to his home. A REGIS
TER reporter was at Elm Grove yesterday
and it was found by inquiries from the
doctor, that White was badly hurt, and
thau it could not yet be stated what his
chances for recovery were. In the fight,
several of the other combatants were con-
stderaoly beaten up, none of those in the
row escaping being hurt in some way
1t is thought that young Westlake was
taken for another man, whom he closely
resembles, as some of those implicated in
the fight were around looking for this
Young man earlier. 1t seems that the
fight in the main grew out Of the scrap at
Edgugtou, at a dance some time ago, when
William White, brother of John, was so
badly done up. Some of the crowd have
had it in for each other ever since.
BY his prompt action, Constable Ander-
son gained many friends for his efficiency.
Warrants are sworn out for all the parties
implicated. as soon as Squire Ankle, who
is now in Columbus, shall return. This
will be about the latter part of this week.