Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1888 — FATAL CHURCH RIOT. [ARTICLE]

FATAL CHURCH RIOT.

For some time there has been trouble brewing in the congregation of Latter Day Saints, near Glen Easton, twentyfive mile east of Wheeling, W. Va., Wednesday evening, while the congregation was holding a meeting at the house of Aaron Farris, an aged member of the flock, the trouble culminated in a riot, in which two men were probably fatally wounded and six or eight others stabbed or otherwise badly hurt. Tom and Leroy Wait are in danger of death from their wounds. Jasper Wait was stabbed in the stomach and Harvey Courtwright had his head cracked and the bone laid bare from the top of his head to his eyes. Tom Chambers was badly beaten with a club. Some of the Waite boys are looking for the Courtwrights with rifles.