Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-17
THE FRENcH-EVERsALE FEU0.
II Has Broken out Afresh ana MORO
BIoodshed l. the Result

pIC, STONE GAP. Va, OctobT IL
,sn.cial)-The French-Eycrsale ieud hAs
broken out afresh il Perry county N.Y.
Rob. May. an ex-member OF the KENTUCKY
I.a,islature. and one OF the principals On
m. Eyersale side, is just here rom
,4.,,.rl the seat Of the county ana ot
49, IuIga Josiah Combs, the iathef-
tn-Iaw Of the dead Eversale Ie"He'' anu -
,non,bar of the French faction WHO'S
I'm. was Frazier. Fulton French the
,,,.,ch leader. aud two others Oh ms
r.,to, bovo been arrested, anu more
..-,tlo win follow. Judse Combs WHO
=. - ,sars Old. lives ia Hazard. Edliy
- sunday morning, two weeks ago Tic
stanneI across the street, where |o""s
r.sh Evcrsale and two others were 'AiA-
ing. -,.r,
When h. reached home NilchcSI,t
oraclsoI from the corunrld just over wv
f.,ce and the oil man caGehI al i''9
trs.st and fell Cash Evefstle
,,1 saw 4 man with blacheheu -
.,rirr no and dash through the co'h'l''''
ti. says it was Joe Adkins. Al 'h7 s'l'I1
lime other Trenches gan Hr.ns I' .rO.I'
another direction 70 divert A''e"''o" ''0'''
\ lk'ns. o.h.r, ran
80, - uttla spur and hii themselves
~ a rovine. Three men with blachenet
zoos soon appeared who were AdNl'9'
Frazier, and jesse Fields
KILLED FRAIlEH.
A. ,bev climbed over bank Will Mar
.tr boy I'm the Eversale crowd .rel
and Killed Frazier The other TWO es-
c,,,.d Inn, were captured later WIN = u'-
,or French. In Rrelthitt county. Atkins
- said IN have escaped. but French ana
r,,alds or. held. They are trying 10 get
the County Judge TO come t. me hI''l,
bitt linz and try them. as they are asiaIA
IA 30 10 Hazard. Judge Combs dled III d
few hours lie had never taken part III
tho feud though hc VAS man or WeAlth
and In svmpathy with the EFersalcs' anu
had always tried to get the Trenches 70
TRIAL. II was his influence that was lear
ed.
NOTED DESPERATE.
Adkins is a noted desperate. More thah
thirty men have been hllei IN the ieun
during the last halt dozen years. II
began with the killing or the Con cue
rate. Gambrils the head oi s.Io"s
Breathitt-county family by the mon
tho Gambvills killed the Eversalc leader
and desultOry irEA,lhB went OH "'''' '"~
war until 1854.
Then Fulton French came from virginia
70 Hazard and taught school and read
law with Joe. Eversale, the leader oI
the EVersale faction.
THE HEADQUARTERS"
The Eversales were the richest and
strongest family In the county, and they
always had a store In Hazard. which was
the Republican headquarters. French
rented this store from Joe. Eversale Tor
a wear. and opened with his clerk, Bob
May.
French and May disagreed at once. and
MAY opened just across the street anu
made. his store the Democratic head
quarters OF the town. When French =
wear was up. Eversale sent him word
that he must move out. French refused
for some reason. and on the day the
lease expired Everssle drove into town
with twenty wagons OF goods. moved
French into the street. and opened next
morning himself
THE WAR.
That started the war. The Grambrills
! took sides with French, who was DEM
| ocrat, against their old foes. and May
| and Eversale. though political enemies.
| iolned their forces. and in time there
were a hundred men on each side Rail-
roads may close In and stop general
| fighting. but the deadly mutual bitterness
| will outlive this generation. Sherir5.
| lawyers, and judges have been with the
| EversaIes French is said TO have hired
many Of his fighters. May has ief,
Hazard, he says, through fear OF assassi-
nation.