The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-09-21

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each ce1ored Democrat was placed in
the Of a half dozen whites. The
line then marched up King street 4ui'
etly and without Interruption until
they reached the German Church, op-
posite the Citadel Green, " hen a mob
of about one hundred and fifty me-
groes, armed with slaves, clubs and
pistols, came yelling after them, hnr-
rahing for Hayes and Wheeler. o' u %
THE ATTACK BY THE NEGROES.
The white men stopped, and one OF
the leaders OF. the gang who had run
up ahead of his crowd, accompanied
by about a dozen, knocked the first
white man he met in the head with a
slung-shot, and the Gro wd Immediate
ly behind him fired. a pistol into the
crowd of whites, shouting that they
would have the colored Democrats out
even it they had to kill every man in
the crowd to do it. Assfit'"ti.''l i'-i.'i.'
The whites then returned the fire,
shooting over the heads of the negro
mob, and a portion of the white men
took Rivers, Sawyer, .Jenkins, and
other colored Democrats to the Cita-
del, where they were placed under the
guard Of the United States troops. In
shorter time than it takes to tell the
story, the negro mob had Increased to
fully three hundred, all of whom W ere
yelling and shouting and breating
threats of violence. There were about
forty whites in the crown, and those
retreated backward up King street.
facing the negroes and keeping them
off as well as they could by returning
the fire from the pistols of the mob.
= -si. NEGROES REINFoRCED., ,ssa bu.
On reaching the corner Of JOhi,
street, the, negro mob was reinforced
by another multitude Of blacks, who
swept ont of John street and cut of
the retreat of the whites. 1t was al
this point that the fight became the hot.
test. 1t was now u hand-to-had con-
test, in which pistol shots were ex-
changed very rapidly Only four Or
five policemen had arrived at the scene
and these we're. of course, powerful to
restrain the infuristed mob. Justice
Reed, with a white man named Pias.
poal, then came up and called on q
posse Of citizens, white and black, to
assist him in 4uieting the rev, but the
negroes would listen to nothing. Z
9!tl THE CRY OF BLOOD. "o'' '''
They cried ss Blood" and swore they
would have it. Policeman Charlie,
Green (colored,) at this time came up,
and standing between Judge Reed and
Mr.. Plasphol, did all he could to per.
suade the crowd to disperse. They re,
fused, answering his words with cur.
ses and threats. For a moment the
crowd appeared as if quieting, but q
skirmish between q white and black
man on the outskirts of the crowd
soon renewed the general fight.
Policeman Green became surround.
ed, and endeavored to, arrest a man
who had just fired off pistol. Pts
tolls were going off at every moment.
and, amid the firing, Policeman Green
fell. shot through, the. abdomen, and
Mr.. J. NJ. Duckner (white) was shot
through the abdomen. By this time
the Policemen were, reinforced by
squads from the upper and lower
guard houses, and succeeded in sepa-
rating the whites from the blacks
The wounded men were taken to the
upper station-house by detail, and
the fighting Immediately begun again
The. whites by this time numbered
only about fifteen men, large numbers
of them having been knocked sense
less with clubs and pailings with
which the mob were armed. .9i a.ii
SUCCESS OF THE RIOTERS.
After desultory fight of about fif
teen minutes longer the negroes had
compile mastery of the field. Police
man Green was the only colored man
up to that time who was hurt, and he
was shot, it is believed, by one of the
negro mob who attempted to fire at a
white man he was protecting. Sever
/ al negroes had been knocked down
and five or six received bad sashe,
over the head, but none were serious
ly hurt. The negroes then stationed
themselves in crowds Of fjrty or fifty
at each corner of King street, extend