The Union

A Horrible Tragedy in Indiana.—A correspondent of the Illinois Staats Zeitung, in a letter dated Lafayette, Indiana, October 10, gives an account of a most revolting murder near the town of Paoli. The facts are as follows: —

A German by the name of Stark with his family, consisting of a wife, two grown daughters, and three sons between the ages of 10 and 24, resides upon a large farm about seven miles from Paoli. Last Wednesday week a cattle trader from Salem went to Stark's farm, and not seeing any one about the premises, he became suspicious that all was not right. He forced his way into the house through one of the back windows. On entering the house his eyes were greeted by a horrible spectacle. On the floor, in a pool of half dried blood, lay the farmer with his skull terribly shattered. Not far from him, on the bed, lay his wife, also dead and bloody, while in different parts of the house were the three sons and two daughters, all murdered, either from cuts from a knife or blows from some blunt instrument. The house itself must have been the scene of a severe combat, since everything moveable was broken, and throughout the house traces of the most terrible violence were distinctly visible.

It is believed that the whole family was murdered and the house then robbed. No arrests have been made.