The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23
IIatfield-M'Coy Feud Has Had Sixty Victims
Started r.5tysigAt Year. Over Pig TAa. Swan Tug River

governor OF that state demanded that
their muTderers be returned 10 Ken
lucky for trial ThereupOn the Hat
fields got up a petition and made all
the neighbors sign it. When some re
fused to do so. the Batfields made
tthem 90 so at the muzzle of Winches
ger rifles. The governor Of West Vir-
sknia read this petition and decided
That the McCoys had treated the Hat
fielais very shabbjly. and they stayed
in West Virginia. A few weeks later
John\Logan and Sam Bird, followers Of
the fNudists, were found dead on the
banks Nof the Tug river. each with
bullet h\le in his head.
So the\war went on, and every now
and then nSws that Hatfield or a Nc
Coy had beeNQ killed reached the out
side world In 1887 came the blOOdiest
battles i'm the HISTORY of the feud. In
that year the Mc,Coys led by Frank
Phillips. raided the NHatfeld stronghold.
The fighting lasted aN week. and when II
was over there werA several dead on
both sides. A Few weeks later the Hat
fields returned the compliment, and
raided the Mccoy Territory in Ken
lucky.
HstfeIds Burn MccOySs Home.
They went to old Randolph McCoy's
home at night, and set the thouse on
| fire. The smoke drove the McACOy's out
/ of the house, and when old Randolph
opened the door he met shower ADf bull
/ let's. With his son Calvin the Oi& man
retreated into the garrett where Nthey
| opened a window and began firing
| through the smoke. In the meantii& e
| Miss AlOphane Mccoy, a young w0A
man, ran out of the house with a churn
fun of milk to try to put out the fire.
She was shot dead. Later old Mrs. Nc
- 4.
| as was also Calvin Mccoy. odd Rand"
! escaped. French Hatfield also met his
1 fate here. while others of his clan were
desperately wounded.
A week later thirteen McCoys met
thirteen Hathelds, and this time the
aim of the McCoys was so good that
they secured a temporary victory.
Among the Hatfield victims was the no.
torious Jim Vance. In 1890 the law got
Ellison Hatfield. and ne paid the penalty
of his misdeeds on the gallows, the
/ McCoys witnessing the execution. In
February. 1880. Uncle Joe" Johnson. a
member of one of the gangs was killed
while out on bail for killing Phil Turn
bier.
In the fall of 1890 there was a story
printed to the effect that the Hatfields
had hanged Green Mccoy ana Milt
Haley Later the MCCOys retaliated
James Brown. before marriage a Hat
field was killed. Next John Hatfield
killed Rutherford Mccoy. John was
sent TO prison for life, but was later
pardOned.
The next most famous battle resulted
in the death of Deputy Sheriff doc"
Ellis Ellis was trying to make an ar
rest. when Elias Hatfield killed him.
For this Elias Hatfield got twelve years,
/ but was soon pardOned. the doctors say
| ing he had consumption. He got well
and married coal operators daughter
| and few months later he was run OVei
| and killed by q train.
II Now comes the death of Tom Hat
| field. who was found tied TO a tree By
] the McCOys and left to die. His friends
rescued him. but exposure necessitatcc
the amputati0n of both legs. He theT
D lived but a short time.
I 1t is said that one of the Hatfield
- girls wrote on one of the white pillars
- in front of the Hatfield home this line
4 There is no place like home"
o Underneath a stranger afterWarC
: wrote:
K AT least this side of hell"