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who, it is thought, has escaped to the mountains.A Bloody Fight.DeKalb, Tex., Feb. 8.—-Yesterday a battle was fought about five miles from town between four male members of a family named White and Colonel John E. Rosser, his son Willie, aged 15 years, and a hired man named Mullins, resulting in the killing of three of the Whites and Colonel Rosser and the woundingof the boy.A coroner’s jury went to the home of the White family, where the shooting occurred, and on the ground in front of the entrance found the body of J. C. White with a bullet hole through his breast and one through his side. In the center of a room in a great pool of blood lay Walter White dead, shot twice through the neck and breast. Upon a bed in a half sitting posture was Lawsou White dead, with his gun cocked and clutched in his hands and a bullet hole through his head.In one corner of the room was found Rosser’s son, shot through the siae, with a Winchester at Ms side. Blood was everywhere and over everything.Half a mile further on the home of Bosser was reached. Here again was a sad scene. In the center of a room was the dead body of Rosser, surrounded by the weeping wife and children, lie had received his death wound through the neck at the hand of old man White, but being a man of great vitality, afiter .having, as he supposed, killed all the Whites, mounted his horse and rode home, dying as he entered the door.The trouble had its origin in a lawsuft a year ago when the Whites bought a piece of land of Rosser. Failing to pay for it he brought suit to gain possession 01 the property. A writ of dispossession had been issued last week against the Whites but had been recalled for some reason and was not served.This angered Rosser, and yesterday in com-pauy with his sou and a hired man, all armed, they went to the White place to forcibly eject them. The elder White invited the Rosser party into the house and Rosser and his son entered and made knowD the object of the visit. A few words were passed and firing began. Old man White staggered from the house and fell dead in the yard, the elder Rosser emptying his revolver at him.The boy was inside and his version of It Is that the elder White shot him and his father and he shot old man White once and then turned his Winchester upon the White boys to keep them from shooting his father. About fifteen shots were fired with deadly effect, killing four of the participants and wounding the boy.iid’iHe quickly s the news to ' An occupa qame could \ here this aft every berth late out of 1 left, it had a passenger ca about 2:10 o’ awakened b was off the i but a short that the con of a bridge rapidity. T turned upsi ice in the rh occupied a human effor self from th the occupai{entleraan, linself at worked witl cheered, bu and he was and became horrible de: burned blt; a number with seve few bodies 1 At that tim«names or ni the belief, h persons wer fire from the The acciden ever occurreT]White R most carefi killed in tl were brougl railroad 80; the BostonWhite RiveFour Persons Drowned..Th*on the tra follows: ] 31); dead surgeons’ lt;to have g have retu: figures ma pearance lt;train whoThe rat scene of t covered tl broke was between t;The prei ber of pastnlrrht in/»i
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Wayne Register
Wayne, Kansas, US
Thu, Feb 17, 1887
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