The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-13
SLAIN FROM AMBUSH.
Four Italian Murderers Killed
by Hidden Miners.
WHILE BEING TAKEN TO JAIL.
The.Foreigners Were Accused Of KILL
ing Popular saloon Keeper, and
His Friends Avenged Him.
WHILE BEING TAKEN TO JAIL.

Pueblo, Col. March PA special TO the
Chieftain from Waisenberg, a small town
fifty-six miles south of Pueblo, says: A
mob In ambush at 7:30 this evening fred
on a wagon containing nine Italians, VINO
are charged with fatally beating A. j.
Hixon. saloonkeeper at Rouse, coal
mining camp six miles from Walsenberg.
Sunday last. -Four of the Italians and the
wagon driver were killed.
The prisoners. who had been lodged In
the walsenberg Jail. were taken TO the
coroners inquest at Rouse this afternoon.
At the conclusion of the session for the
day the prisoners were loaded into the
wagon and started back 10 the jail. At
Bear Creek, a region where there is much
underbrush. half mile from Walscnberg,
the crack of score OF rifles. presumably
In the hands Of miners. rang out. Four
of the prisoners, whose names cannot be
learned on account of the excitement,
were instantly killed. Joe Welby. a young
American boy who was driving the wagon
was also killed. The officers returned the
fire. which lasted for several minutes.
The most intense excitement reigns.
walsenberg and Rouse are both or the
main line of the railroad and attempts
TO secure further details have failed be-
cause the telegraph Offices are not open
at night.
The work of the mob was done to
a
o'clock Monday morning two men en-
route TO work at Rouse discovered A. J..
Hixon, proprietor Of saloon. in a dying
condition about an eighth of a mile from
his place of business. Mr. Hixon had been
struck on the back OF the head with a
blunt weapon and was unconscious. He
expired within an hour.
Some days since T. J. Brewer. pit boss
OF the Rouse mines. imported trained
bloodhound, which was promptly sum-
moned. The animal rushed away on the
trail, and within ten minutes seized
table leg in the rear of a saloon located
half mile distant. Upon examination
blood was discovered on this leg. The
dog then proceeded to the saloon door
and two men. Lorenzo Danino and Jo-
batto Antonio. were discovered therein
and exhibited considerable anxiety to get
away. They were arrested. Two more
men. Pete Rosetta and Frank Anrico,
were arrested In cabin near by Ad-
missions OF knowledge OF the murder
were secured from two OF them immedi-
ately upon their arrest, and later they d.
vulged the names of seven others who were
with them, and charged Lorenzo Danino
with the murder. Two OF the parties had
started south The officers were quickly
In the saddle and the entire nine were
under arrest by p. m. The names OF
the additional FIVE are: Pete Jocobini.
ffAHc3Sco fsOHkettus GcrpOraIia, MILO ana
Nicholai. whose Christian names are I'M
known
Threats of lynching Danino were gen
orally INDUCED In during the day, and
quite a number of men were scattered
along the route TO Waisenberg but IL
was thought there was scarcely a pos
sibility that violence wonld be attempted
Hixon was rather popular with the
American miners and general indignatIo
prevails. He was Ar Arkansan, late of
Texas. and was IS or IS years of age. He
was supposed TO have returned from Wal
senberg On horseback about 10 p. m. and
20 have been attacked unawares. The
incentive OF the murder Is problem. az
Hixon was not of an aggressive or quar-
reisons disposition.
later special 10 the Chieftain from
Trinidad In regard TO he mob a. ssouse,
gives more details of the occurrence cb-'
tatned by messenger. wagon with foar
OF the nine prisoners was met at Bear
Creek by party of armed men mounted
on horses They commanded Deputy
Sheriff Earl Danford. who had Charge
OF the prisoners, to throw mp his hanes.