The Horror on South Eighth Street

At 1 o'clock this morning, a man was seen rushing up Commercial street in great haste. He was stopped by a Post-Intelligencer reporter to whom he related the following story: 'I live in South Seattle, near the north end of the Grant street road. A few minutes ago, while in bed, I heard someone groaning outside, and going out I found Mrs. Ward, a neighbor, lying in the mud with a terrible gash in her throat. She was taken to the residence of Harry Lichtwerka, an employee of the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, who lives at the foot of South Eighth street. She was conscious and said her husband, during a fit of insanity, had stabbed her through the throat, and she feared had killed himself. I at once set out for a doctor, and hence my haste.' A reporter was sent to the scene. There he found Ward in his own house with his throat cut from ear to ear. The wife was at the neighbor's mentioned above, still alive, as we go to press, but gradually sinking, and it is thought she cannot recover. Ward was a man 40 years of age, a logger by trade, who worked on the Grant-street road during its construction and lately worked for Powell, the logger. He had been in Seattle two years. Mrs. Ward is a small woman, industrious, and to help her husband has worked at tailoring. The couple have a daughter 12 or 13 years old, who was visiting when the tragedy occurred.