Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — IN A PITCHED BATTLE. [ARTICLE]

IN A PITCHED BATTLE.

Two Hundred’Men and Hoys Fight Out a Bitter, Long-standing Feud. The other night 200 men and boys engaged in a pitched battle at Dayton, a small town southwest of Webster City, lowa. For some time past a feud has existed between the two towns of Dayton and Frazier, and a large party of miners from the letter town visited Dayton for the purpose of demolishing it. During the battle City Marshal Larson was shot through the stomach, the bullet passing thio.igh his body. John Gustafson was literally cut to pieces, and among a half dozen others injured more or less was Frank Doud, United Stater Marshal under President Harrison for Dakota. The miners, the dispatch says, went to a dance at Dayton, where' a New Year's dance was in progress. Entering, they scared the ladies present, and it was but a moment until they had cleared the room. Shortly after this they went to a re-taurant owned by a.man named Tucker. The men who were at the dance had armed themselves, and the City Marshal was at the restaurant trying to quiet the miners and induce them to leave town. Some one fired a shot, and it entered the City Marshal s body. The ri.)t was on then in earnest, knives, -pistols, and clubs were used. An armed patrol of about twenty men was stationed at different parts of the city by the Mayor, and late the followingafternoon. they, in company with the Sheriff from Fort Dodge and a posse from the same place, arrested eight of the ringleaders.