KROUT, Thomas - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

At Yeddo in Fountain County last Friday night Thomas Krout and Henry

McKenzie engaged in a bloody duel.  One used a knife and the other an ax

and so furious was the fray that both men were almost slashed and

chopped to pieces. They are brothers-in-law and Krout boards with

McKenzie. They began quarreling when McKenzie knocked Krout down and

began beating him.  Krout drew a knife and cut McKenzie. McKenzie's wife

then interfered and succeeded in taking her husband off of her brother.  

Krout ran and McKenzie started after him, grabbing an ax, and,

overtaking Krout, struck him a terrible blow with the ax, again felling

him to the ground when a terrible struggle began, one using the ax and

the other the knife. The wife began screaming and attracted the

neighborhood.  A physician, who lives next door, was first to arrive.  

When he reached the scene McKenzie fell over in his arms from loss of

blood. The doctor began investigation and discovered that both men were

cut all over.  McKenzie's lung was pierced and he received other serious

cuts. Krout's skull is fractured in two places and he had been cut five

times with the ax.  Both men are in a serious condition and may not

recover.