A Lively Ball

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 103, 8 March 1887, Page 3

A Lively Ball

The Times Charleston (W: Va.) special of the 27th says :— News has just been leceived here from the mountain mining village of Kenny Creek of a horrible affair. On Christmas Eve, Mr Lov«joy gave a dance to which he invited the population. The dance was orderly until the hqubr drunk had its effect, when two factions known as Gilbert's and Hall's, between whom there has been bitter feeling for years, began quarrelling; Friends of both parties tried to keep the trouble that was brewing under control, but it was no use. Finally revolvers were drawn and the ball opened in earnest. At the first round George Gilbert fell, being riddled with bullets. Elijah Gilbert, John Montgomery, and John Land were fatally wounded. It was a scene of terror. Men, women, and children fled from the house. The lights were put . tut aud when the firing was over, the battlefield investigated, and the dead and wounded attended to, it was found that the room was riddled with bullets at least fifty shots having been fired during the melee. It is known that four or five other members of the opposing factions were severely wounded, and were carried off the field. Only one arrest was made, and when the man (Donahue by name) was brought before the Justice he jumped through a window aud made good his escape.