St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-14
TWO MORE ARE LYNCHED
Making Six Deaths in All as
% the Outcome Of the
n Uprising.
ALL QUIET IN NEW ORLEANS.
Governor Issues a Proclama-
r otion--Peaee Preserved
at Any Cost

WALSENBURG, Col, March 13.-
Four dead bodies are now in the
hands of the coroner of Hueriano
county as the result of the ven
geance wreaked last night on the
Italian miners who were charged
with the killing of Abner HiXon in
a most brutal manner at Rouse last
Sunday by beating him over the
head with club, and two more
Italians have unquestionably been
riddled with bullets by friends of the
popular saloonkeeper. Three of the
four bodies are those of HiXOn'S al
legged assailants, the fourth is that
of Joe Welsby, who was driving
four of the Italians to Jail in
wagon when he met his death.
THE DEAD ARE:
ANTONIO LORENZO, declared by
the coroner's jury to have struck the
blow which crushed Hixon's skull and
caused his death, tWenty-four years
of age, unmarried. an Italian citizen.
STANISLAU VETTARI, thirty years
old, married, wife and three children
in Italy; intention of becoming an
American citizen.
FRANCISCO RANCHETTO, twenty.
seven years old, unmarried; intention
of becoming an American citizen de>
clared.
JOE WELSBY, twenty-three years
old, unmarried.
PIETRO GIACABINO, thirty four
years old; young son living here; said
to have taken out first papers.
ANTONIO APETTO, twenty-four
years old, married, wife and three
children in Italy; first papers taken
out.
The first four are in the hands of
the coroner.
Though the mob commenced its
work last evening when the sun had
been set but a little while, it was not
until this morning that they COM
pleted their work of revenge, after
having killed three of the suspected
homicides and brought death to the
young wagon driver, who had moth
ing to do with the killing of Hixon.
When the three Italians captured
from the wagon at BearCreek bridge
where Welsby was killed, had been
made way with, the small but de-
T termined mob waited for the ex-
element to subside and then came
to the county Jail here, and a few
minutes before l o'clock this morn
ing
II COMPLETED THE WORK
of revenge on what they had COM
menced six hours before. Ron
Ghetto, who had been wounded in the
breast at the Bear Creek trouble,
was found asleep in the calaboose
with Lorenzo. The guards placed
at the jail, William Smith and Henry
Farrow, playing cards, when a rap
came to the outer door of the jail
I They asked who was there and they
We're told Sheriff O'Mally. Without
a moments hesitation they unbarred
the entrance, and instead of seeing
O'Mally they looked down the bar
rels of two revolvers in the hands of
two masked men.
Experiences of others earlier in the
night taught them to obey the COM
mand to throw down their pistols and
! throw up their hands. While the first
two men covered Fare and Smith with
their pistols, another pair with their
faces hidden by handkerc hiefs and car
rying big guns in their hands stalked
in. One of the last arrivals picked UP
from the table the keys to the cell in
the jail and going back into the build
ing, unlocked the door where lay the
| now trembling Italians, who felt sure
their time had come, and in their
broken English begged piteosly for
mercy. The avengers had no mercy
| for the doomed Italians. In the cell
with them was Frank ok, who is
| charged with a brutal rape. He was
| gruffly told to stand aside and skunk
| into corner of the cell. The masked
men then
| TURNED THEIR PISTOLS LOOSE
on the Italians, who shrieked in agony
as bullet after bullet was sent tearing
into their defenseiess bodies. One OF
| the first shots must have brought re-
| lief to Lorenzo, whom the men seemed
| to regard with especial hatred as the
| officially declared murderer, for their
! leaden balls were sent into the BRAIN
! Rochetto was not SO fortunate, one
| bullet passed through his head and
! two tore great holes in the thoracic
! cavity, but instant death was not to
! be his good fortune, for he Writhed
and groaned in intense agony for as
much as twenty minutes; when the
vigilant felt their work was surely
done, turned away, leaving the victims
| writhing in their own and one anoth-
ers blood, while the covering brute
| who had seen it all was too terrified
to utter a sound. When the last bullet
had been fired that was thought neces-
sary to avenge one death with six, the
men who had done the latest piece of
killing walked out from the Jail into
the dark night.
Ok A moment or two later the keepers
of the two guards backed out through
the door and closed it behind them.
Fare and Smith now picked up their
owne9Fevolvers and fired five shots
through the heavy wooden door after
the retreating men. Summoning UP
courage, they peered out themselves
in a few seconds, and seeing six OF
eight men making off on foot across
the railroad tracks, they shot al them
until their pistols were empty. but
without effect. They gave the alarm
but Before sufficient men for a pur-
suit had gathered, the men who haC
done the latest deed were safely away
and Fare and Smith could give nc
description in detail.
- The work so vigorously begun early
in the evening was now complete, ant
every one was sure that the Italian:
captured at the bridge had met death
A coroner's jury this morning inves
tigated the killing ST Welsby, and rem
dered verdict that he met his dealt
at the hands of persons unknown Al
inquest over Lorenzo and Rochetto i
now in progress, and the testimony thu
far adduced warrants the belief in {
srmilar finding in their cases. Thu
worst is tho l. ut to be over, and TIL
excitement is fast subsiding, excep
among the Italian miners, of whom
there are about 200 in the district, VIII,
are congregating, representation, a
Brunnell's saloon. The Italian eonsu
at New York wired Joe Moran thi
morning inquiring into the killing, bu
1t is now doubtful whether cOrnDlic3