Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — THE HATFIELDS AND M'COYS. [ARTICLE]

THE HATFIELDS AND M'COYS.

A Canrinuation of tbe Bloody Worlr---Throata of Destroying w A despatch cf the 24th from Catflflfibnrg, Ky., saya: The war of e.xtermi' a tion between the Hatfields and the McCoys is attll going on in the w*'da of West Virginia. The steamer Frank Preeton arrived from Pikeville Monday afternoon and brought intelligence of the encounter between tbe nryming party and the Hatfields of last Saturday. On Thursday last the capturing party, numbering twenty, left Pikeville for Tug river. After crossing the river, when nearing the residence of Captain Hatfie’d, they came across a woman in the road who was standing picket, and who immediately gave the alarm. The capturing party, when turning a point in the road, were fired upon by a squad of eigh t from the Hatfield gang. Bud McCoy wai shot through >he shoulder and dangerously wounded. Two of the posse ware detailed to care for him and take h m home. The capturing party ixnme iatelv returned the fire, and Will Demps-y, of the Hatfield gang, ell to the j round, ehot through ile towels. Atihid jnn tnre the Hatfields biat a hasty i etc at, throwing away their 1 lankets, ove coats, etc. Tie posse went np to where D -mpeey « as, and although he wai in a dy i g < on lit on and begged piteously to be s ved, as he w uld n>t uve ong, d -pite bis cri< afo mercy, the nan that k (led J mVance on the that raid put h s gu i again t Dempsey’s head and almo t ew ii o . Ac this inhun an and sickening ct one of the pursuing party became angry, es. tbe posse and re-iar.-uhome. The Hatfields were orgiuizing lor a rail over on Peter creek, in Kentucky, the tt-ene of their New Year’s night heeds, to murder people, burn property and kill stock. The Peter Creek ‘ Guards, twenty strong, have joined the capturing party, which now numbers forty odd, and are in hot pursuit of the Hatfields. The excitment throughout Pike county,though intense, is increasing daily, as the Hatfields have warned the people that they propose to kill them and burn their property. They have sant word that they propose to burn Pikeville and extricate their six comrades now in jail there. The jail is strongly guar ted day and night, and pickets are sent out in all directions from the town every night. Judge Waggoner, county judge of Pike county, an i J. Lae Ferguson, county attorney, came down ou the Frank Preston from Pikeville, en route to Frankfort, where they go to lay the case before the Governor and ask him for arms to protect themselves and their property.