The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-17
OUTRAGEs in NORTH CAROLINA.
An engineer and two RIremea shot on a Rail-
rond TraIn-Extraordtnary Ku.Klux Docu-

An engineer and two Firemen shot on a Rail-
rond Traln-ExtraOrdtnary Ku.Klux Docu-
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RALEIGH, Feb. 16.-A most diabolical outrage
occurred here about three miles from this city
on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. As
the regular passenger train which left this city
yesterday for Greenville neared Smiths Branch,
at Ex-Gribble, the engineer observed a man
walking on the trestlework armed with double
barreled shotgun. When the train came up
with him he stepped off the track and, delibe-
rately drawing his gun TO his shoulder, dis
charged both barrels at the engineer and fireman
in rapid succession. The engineer, who had
no idea the villain was in earnest when he
levelled the gun at him, stood and received,
the contents OF the gun full in the
face, not even moving his head within the car
riage in rear OF the engine. Both his eyes we're
destroyed, aud the buckshot with which the
gun was loaded are said to have penetrated the
BRAIN. Both the fremen were also badly
wounded. The train was at once stopped aud
reversed, and as 1t put back towards the city the
as ASSN stood coolly reloading his gun, but did
not make any other attempt TO fire. The en-
ployes on the train being unarmed, made no
attempt to arrest the villain. The engineer will
die, and the firemen are badly wounded. The
outrage created the most intense excitement
among the passengers. A sheriff's posse was at
once despatched to the scene, and succeeded in
arreetiDg man named Hornsby as the alleged
assassin.
The following Ku-klux document was left on
the person of the jailer, who was tied half
while they took out the ten negroes in Union
county to lynch them on Sunday night last: -
Taken by habeas corpus, In silence and In secrecy
Thought has been working, and the benignant ell
cheney Of concealmeDt speaks for itself. Once
again have we been forced by force to use force
Justice was lame and she had to lean upon us. In
formation having been obtained that dOubting
Thomas, the Judge-the inferior OF nothing, the
superior OF nothing, and OF consequence the equal
OF nothing, who has neither eye TO see to the
OF oppression nor TO hear the OF humsnity
even though he wears the judicial sllk-had ordered
some guilty prisoners from here to the city OF COlun-
ba, and OF Injustice and prejudice for unfair trial
of life, thus cutching at the wheelspokes OF destiny
then this thing was created and projected, other
wise IL never would have been. We Yield to the in
evitabe and neXecrable and act this the best 'Let
not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth"
is our MOTTO We want Feace; but this cannot be
till justice returns. We want and Will have Justice:
but this cannot be till the bloody fight OF freedom is
fought Until then the Mooch iniquity will have
his rights. even If the marshal of justice must have
his martyr. K. X. K.
Governor Scott has advised the appointment
OF legislative committee of three, without re-
gard to party, to visit the President and repre-
sent TO him the condition of affairs in this
State, and request sufficient force of troops to
protect life and property and to enforce the
civil law.
Another case of lynching is looked for in
York county, where number of negro murder
ers are confined in iail.