The herald., 1896-12-07
GRIMES and CASUAL TIES
A Texas Railroad Collision
Counts Five Victims
TWO MISSOURI MURDERERS
Taken From Jail and Hanged by
Indignant Farmers
The Usual List of Sunday Crimes, the
Outcome of Love and Jealousy
or Avarice
Press Special Wire

SAN ANTONIA, Texas, Dec. GA
head-end collision between two through
freights on the Southern Pacific road
near Waelder this morning resulted in
the death of the two engineers, two fire.
men and a brakeman. The crew of the
east-bound freight went to sleep while
waiting on blind siding, and on
waking, thinking the second section of
the through west-bound freight was the
third section of the train, took to the main
track. The weather was foggy. and the
east-bound freight and the third sec
ton fthe west-bound freight came to-
gether few miles from the siding. The
dead are:
T. p. Coady, engineer.
w. H. Brown, engineer.
William Holt fireman.
George Askind, fireman.
Will Heard, brakeman.
A relief train was sent from this city
with corps of physicians, and the dead
and injured were brought to San An
tonic.
MURDERS LYNCHED
ANSAS CITY, Dec. "a special to the
Journal from Lexington, Mo-, says: At
about o'clock this (Monday) morning
a mob of Ray county farmers broke into
the county Jail here, secured Jesse Win
ner and James Nelson, held for the muir
der of Mrs. Winner and her two babes,
and lynched them Details of the affair
are meager.
The mob broke into the Jail with little
difficulty and speedily accomplished
their object of melting out punishment
to the alleged butchers. Lon Lacker,
who has also been in Jail here under a
n of nj icit in ha ,e1
taken to Richmond Saturday. which fact
alone saved his life, as he would certain
ly have been lynched with the others.
The probabilities are that vengeance
Will be meted out to him later, possibly
before morning. Several attempts were
made to lynch Winner and Lacker while
they were in jail at Richmond, which led
to their removal here 70 rsafe keeping
Nelson has ben in jail here only since
Saturday having been arrested on the
strength of a confession made by Miss
Maggie atron, who'made a sworn state
ment that she, Winner. Lackey (not
Lacker) and Nelson committed the mur-
der. The crime for which Winner and
Nelson were lynched was the brutal
murder of Mrs. Winner. wife of the
lynched man, and of Clara Winner, aged
3 years. ard Pearl Winner, a boy aged
Is months.
The Winners lived northeast of Rich
mond. On October 2e Winner left home
Winner and the two children were
for a day or two, and the next day Mrs
found with their throats cut. Mrs. Win
ners' head had also been split open with
an ak. Her body lay just outside the
house and was frightfully mutilated by
hogs before it was discovered.
- GONE FOR GOOD.
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 6-Wesley Da-
Wis of Rossville, a grain dealer, who in
uJne 1896 diSappeared leaving $40 OOO
in debts behind him, having returned
and failed in an attempt to settle up
after years work, has again disap-
peared, this time, he says. for good. In
a letter written, in Kansas City. Davis
advises his wife to return to the home
of her parents in Virginia, as he had de-
cided to leave his family and friends for
ever.
After an absence of some months on
the occasion of his first disappearance,
Davis returned, and compromising some
of his debts, resumed his business oper-
ations, with the avowed intention of
paying off his Indebtedness. However,
he has not been successful and contin-
ued reverses have compelled him to cut
loose. as he expressed it in the farewell
letter to his Wife.
LOVED NOT WISELY.
MONTREAL. Quebec, Dec 6.-Mad-
dened by unrequited love, Homer How
ell. aged rs. shot and fatally wounded
his former sweetheart, Miss Annie Sims.
aged "a, at her home in this city today,
ana then put bullet in his own brain.
dying from the shot.
A DOUBLE MURDER.
PINE BLUFF, Ark, Dec. GA double
murder occurred about twelve miles
southeast Of this city last night negro