Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-03-13
BLOODSHED IN COLORADO.
Keeper of a Temperance Saloon Near
Walsenburg Murdered by
Italians.
Six of the Murderers Subsequently
Shot-Intense Excitement-lnter-
national Complication

Denver, Mch. 13.-A special to the
Times from Walsenburg, Colo, says:
"Last Sunday night Abner Hixon, tho
keeper of temperance saloon at Rouse
was assaulted by Italians. While one
named Antonio Gobotto held him Lorenzo
Daneno struck him twice on the back
and side of the head with table leg.
They then carried him thirty rods north,
leaving him near the door of John Leibel,
who found him in the morning just
breathing. Nine arrests were made. AS
a result of the coroner's inquiry, five men
were held for trial. Daneno was brought
to Jail at Walsenburg about noon Mon
day, and the four others; ir charge of
Deputies Danford and Chas. Hartman
and Driver Joseph Welsby, started for
the Jail after o'clock in the evening.
"When on bridge, less than mile
from Walsenburg, six men on horseback,
masked or disguised, rode up, ordered
the driver to stop, the deputies to hold
up their hands and the prisoners to get
out. The horsemen then began shooting,
frightening the horses which ran into the
wire fence. The driver was killed by an
accidental shot. One Italian was wounded
in the breast and brough to town. The
other three have not been found. About
3 o'clock this morning the Jail here was
broken open and Dapino and the
wounded man we're shot in their cells and
killed. The coroner's inquest is now in
session."
INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATION.
Walsenburg, Colo.-Uncle Sam may
have an international complication on his
hands as result of the mob violence last
night in which five Italians, believed to
be unnaturalized, have been killed. After
the attack on the wagon party early last
evening described in the Associated Press
report, all was comparatively quiet until
after midnight, when seven or eight men
wearing masks knocked at the door of
the Jail, where Daneno, charged by other
Italians with killing Hixon on Sunday,
and the Italian wounded in the fight were
confined. In answer to a question the
men said that O'Malley, the sheriff, want
ed to enter. As soon as the door was
opened the guards found guns in their
faces. Part of the masked men then went
to the cells where the two Italians were
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oner received four or five bullets. One
died instantly, but the other lived short
time in great agony. No trace has yet
been found of the three Italians thrown
from the wagon, though they were killed
beyond doubt.
The list of the dead and missing is:
Joe Welsby, driver of the wagon, Lorenzo
Aneno, Pete Jacobi2i, Antonio Gobatto,
Stsnsilo Vittano, Francisco Roetto. The
other four suspects had been released
from custody before the mob arose.
Some fears were entertained at Rouse
last night that the Italians, who there
Cutnumber the Americans and other ma
tionalities, might rise up and revenge
the death of their neighbors. Nothing of
this sort has happened nor is it much
anticipated Feeling is intense. Should
an uprising occur the Italians would be
exterminated.
ANOTHER REPORT.
Cucharas, Colo.--A mob entered the
Walsenburg Jail after midnight and killed
two more Italians, making the total
fatalities six. Of the nine Italians ar
rested for the murder of A. Hixon, four
we're exonorated by the coroner's jury.
The others have all been killed. The
town is now quiet.