Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-08-21

and the floods.
Several funerals had 10 be post
poned because of strike Of grave
diggcrs in Chicago.
Two men held up G. Il. & Q. eI-
press train two miles from Sayan-
nah. ILL.,, and secured in the neigh
borhood Of $4,000
During a heavy storm several un-
completed structures on the worlds
| fair site at 81. Louis were blown
down. The damage Is placed at
| $4,000
one Of the bandits who held up a
c.. b & Q. train near Savannah,
H., was killed either by the express
messenger. who fired several shots,
or one Of his companions.
On the face Of the returns, as
shown by the census bulletin just
issued. the 921 slaughtering and
meat packing establishments Of the
United States made a profit Of SlOl,-
9is,s56 in the year ending June 30,
1900 That was prior TO the era
of high prices which have prevailed
during the last year.
Armed with dynamite TO blow
bis way out Of prison, Gus Hyatt,
train robbcr and Desperate, led
desperate band Of sixteen conS1cts
to liberty from the Tennessee penl-
Tertiary at Nashville. Fifteen OF
the escaping party got entirely clear
of the premises and only one, Ed
Carney, a safcblowcr, paid the pen
atty Of death in the bold undertake
ing. The prisoners were furnished
dynamite from the outside which
they used in blowing out an open
ing in the main wing Of the prison.
Hyatt stood of the inside guard
with brace Of reyolvcrs, which had
also been FURNISHED HIM from the
OUTSIDE, while the other ccrvicts
made their exit.
Harry Tracy, the notorious out
law who, with David Merrill. escap-
ed from the Oregon pcuitcntiary at
Salem June 9 last, killing three
! prison guards and a convict at the
time, committed suicide after being
wounded and run to bay in a wheat
field in the state Of Washington on
the 9th inst. Tracy was hunted
down by four citizens and a deputy
sheriff. who Will divide a reward Of
$4,000 The outlaw was located on
a ranch belonging TO man named
Eddy. He made a bold dash for the
brush. firing no less than twenty
shots at has pursucrs, but his aim
for the first time was bad and none
OF the party were injured. Keeping
up running fight he was pursued
10 a wheat field. when he was seen
/ 10 stumble as though wounded. lie
crawled into the grain, and IN few
moments a pistol shot was heard.
An entrance was made into the field
and Tracy's dead body was found
lying amid the grain with his face
turned toward the sky. His left
hand, thrown over his head, held a
revolver, which had inflicted the
death wound. The thumb Of his
hand was on the trigger Of the p.s-
tol. His right hand. thrown across
the lower part Of his body, firmly
graspcd the barrel of the famous ri
fle. Two bullet wounds on the left leg
showed the cause II the mans de-
spondency. One shot had broken
the leg between the ankle and the
knee. The other cut the tibial ar
terry, which Of itself was sufficient
to cause death. On June rs Tracy
killed Merrill near Napayine, Wash,
shooting him from behind and leav-
ing his body in the forest, where it
was found on July -. On July 3,
near Seattle. in a fight with a posse,
Tracy shot and killed Charles Ray
mond, a deputy sheriff, +. L. Brcsse,
policeman, and MORALLY wounded
Neil Rawley, who died on the fol-
lowing day, and wounded Carl An
derson and Louie Seafrite, newspa-
per reporters. lie committed many !
feats Of daring during his flight, in
the course Of which he eluded va
rious posses when apparently sur
rounded, and held up numerous
farmers whom he forced TO furnish