The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-08
THE GohDsBono.R RIOT.
Additional Particulars.

THE 00hDSb0H01 hot.
Additional Particulars.
fhe Goldsboro'. Messenger Of LIST in
slant contains detailed account OF the
Radical negro riot in that town las.
Saturday. We copy the following:
Two large free trains arrived here
over the Atlantic railroad, crowded
with vast multitude Of infuriated ne.
groes, frenzied with liquor and madden
ed with the political excitement of the
occasion. Their numbers was estima-
ted to have been not less than 1000,
joined here, as they were, by crowds OF
negroes from the town and counties ad.
joining. We were not present when
the trains arrived, but we are credibly
informed that not more than about
twenty-five white men landed from the
cars on their arrival here. The New
bern delegation appeared to have been
the most lawless.
THE CAUSE OF THE RIOT.
At about IL o'clock the police at.
tempted the arrest of a very turbulent
negro, who resisted most violently. A
negro mob, urged on by a couple Of
Newbern mulattoes, Zone Of them nam
ed Charles Hilten, coon surrounded
the police, clamoring for the rescue Of
the prisoner. The officers proceeded
with their captive, and the mob began
to swell rapidly in numbers. When
most to the lookup the conduct of the
negroes became most savage and VIC
lent The prisoner was rescued, and
Gus Bryant, one of the colored police,
who gave chase, was shot at by some
negro belonging to the mob. The cry
of "shoot him." "shoot him." rang
from the mob, and, perhaps from few
thoughtless citizens who witnessed the
chase. Amidst the excitement, howev.
er imprudent, two or three shots were
dispatched by the colored policemen
after the fugitive. Now the negroes
became very riotous, tumultuous and
insulting in the extreme. Clubs, razors,
knives and pistols were flourished by
them in an uncountable number, while
their threats for revenge were most
terrific.
AT THE EXCHANGE HOTEL.
the police succeeded in recapturing the
fugitive. In the meantime, the mob
had become more infatuated and fully
maddened. The prisoner was taken
inside the hotel by Deputy Sheriff Mike
Woods, aided by the police, while the
mob, fully one thousand strong, congre-
gated in front of the entrance, still
clamoring for the prisoner and threat
ening the life Of Gus Bryant, the color
ed police. A melee ensued, in which
several innocent white men, who merely
looked on, were badly dubbed by the
mob.
The fury Of the mob, which by this
time had become overwhelming in num-
bers in front of the hotel, had now
reached it's highest pitch. Clubs, pis-
tolls, brick-bats and razors were -four
ished in all directions. The universal
cry among them was that the colored
policeman, Augustus Bryan, who was
said to have shot at the rescued prison
er as he ran, must be brought out and
killed or hung on the spot.
REMoNsrRANCE WAS UNAvAILING.
Some white men on the piazza were
again brutally beaten, and the clamor
for the capture and life of Policeman
Bryan was kept up. Policemen guard.
ing the door were dubbed, and colored
men, who tried to pacify the mob and
keep them from breaking into the hotel,
had their clothes torn to rags. A mis-
sileIhurled at the window broke it and
cut severe cash on the head of Mr..
Council Best, an aged citizen who had
sought shelter in the hotel. A pistol
shot fired from the mob took effect in
the door casing; the door was forced
open, and two blows with clubs were
rapidly dealt to one of the men, a citl
zen, inside. Forbearance had now
ceased to be a virtue-it was do or die
with the police who were inside, and a
rapid fire was opened upon the assail
ants, who fred rapidly in return. One
man, a principal rioter, was killed or
the spot, three or four wounded and 9
general stampede Of the immense mob
took place. In all about thirty shots
were fired.