The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-04
FEUD FOUGHT ON A TRAIN.
Two Kentuckians Met in Coach
and Opened Fire.
THREE PASSENGERS WERE HIT.

afternoon. The meeting took place
on crowded passenger train. A
terrible pistol duelensued in the pres
ence of a score of women.
Whitloek died with his boots on.
The duel was the third meeting be
tween the men since feud was start
ed TWO years ago. They encountered
each other on the platform OF the
smoker The train had Just left the
station and persons who knew both
men were expecting the trouble that
followed
Whitlock saw Penn first and start
ed for him. Penn apparently did
not wish to fight, for he turned and
ran. He passed out OF the smoker
and into the baggage car ahead.
Passengers followed them, deriding
Penn and calling out to him.
why don't you fght?'
As they neared the forward end OF
the DaSedSt tar y illlIOth IIcu'
Then Penn turned and fired a shot
and advanced toward WhitlOck, who
began TO retreat slowly. The pas
sengers made Il break for the rear
ears and the men followed
FOUGHT THROUGH THREE COACHES
Through three coaches they
fOught-frOm the baggage car back
into the parlor car. The shaking OF
the train, which was now running at
full speed, spoiled their aim and the
bullets flew wide of their mark. Pas
seneers ducked under the seat and
got away as best they could, while
the bullets smashed doors and win
dows and mirrors.
Conductor b. ". Strong entered
the smoker Just as the men did and
a bullet struck him in the leg. He
sank into a seat and the duelists
passed on toward the rear of the
train.
In the first coach back of the
smoker Whitlock started to run,
having been wounded. Penn, who
had also received Il bullet in his left
arm, rushed along after him.
In the ladies coach, near the rear,
Whitlock turned for a last stand.
The train was still running rapidly,
but on a straight piece OF track.
Penn steadied himself against seat,
took deliberate aim and put three
bullets in rapid succession within six
inches of each other into WhitlOck s
breast. 1t was good shooting.
Whitlock threw up his arms and
fell forward in the aisle, dead.
Penn put up his weapon and sur
rendered himself to the passengers.
Both men had emptied two revolvers
during the duel.
After the fight was over it was dis
covered that in addition to the
wound in Conductor StrOng's leg
three passengers had been hit. In
the Jim Crow" ear negro had been
shot through the body and in the
next car back a woman's arm had
been clipped and baby had a slight
scalp wound.
START OF FEUD WAS TRIVIAL.
Whitlock and Penn have both been
prominent in this section of Ken
lucky for years. As stated, the trou-
BILE started two years ago over a
matter so trivial that the remaining
does not reHemberit it. Penn
suffered first. Within a week after
the first difficulty Whitlock shot him
through the shoulder from behind u
tree. Two months later Penn shot
Whitlock in the lee. Their meeting
on the passenger train was the rub
Der and Penn won out
Il did not want TO fight" Penn
told the passengers after the battle.
The whole trouble arose over some
thing SO trivial that | really have
forgotten what it was.
Whitlock' : body was taken to an
:. where the coroner will
hold and inquest.
We have seen the frail infant when
the faint struggle for existence seem
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