INHUMAN FIGHT BETWEEN COLLIERS.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1870, 30 December 1874, Page 2

INHUMAN FIGHT BETWEEN COLLIERS.

The Sheffield Telegraph has the fo'lowing:—One of the most inhuman fights that could possibly blacken the reputation of a neighbourhood is said to hare .taken place on a Sunday, in a field in the outskirts of Mexborougb. Two colliers named Tom and Jack, are stated to have met in that Deigl b3urhood, and having had somewhat against each other, agreed to " hare is out." Tom was in his Sunday clothes, but immediately changed them for a p=ir ot old trousers and a new pair of clogs.- In a few minutes the two stood before each other for an encounter, stripped to the waist, and having no clothing except a pair of trousers and substantial pair of clogs. The terma of agreement evidently were to kick, seral cb s or bite, either up or "* down. To work they vrent with a will, first up, then down, the clogs quickly coming inlo contact with hard skulls One man, it is said, seized told of the (other man's lip wilb^. his teeth, and bit it in a featf 1 manner; infle^^^ the two appear to have tried t^^| utmost, like two bulldogs, to tear <^^| : other to pieces. One put his fimJ^H within the cheek of the other in order to^ drag it out, but his antagonist got hold of l>is finger with his sharp teeth, and, commenced to grind at it after the fashion of a dog with a bone. ''This''sight;'*.is said to have been witnessed by scores of people, women and children .running ■'hither and. thither, screaming, and crying out for the police, who. ai length came up, but too late. This desperate and.brutish fighfc lasted, it appears, for more than balf-an-hour. when one had to give up, being unable to continue the encounter any longer. It is said that the appearance of these two creature! was of the most sickening and disgusting character, both, having been so severely bitten,- scratched, and kicked that they were literally covered with wounis, and buckets of water had to be thrown on them for the purpose .of washing them. The police, we believe, are now making an investigation of the affair .(which has been kept tolerably quiet), with a view to bring the two characters to justice.