The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-11-16

ance, while the rest were kept under
arms in front of the main Stationhouse.
About 5 o'clock Company E, Of the 5th
Artillery, Maj. Kenzie, and Company B,
of the First Aatillery, Maj. r. T. Frank,
arrived at the Stationhouse. The citizen
police were ordered to fall in the rear of
the soldiers. The negroes BY this time
had all disappeared, except in certain
localities. In the bend of King street.
near Market street, about 200 of them
had assembled with their muskets, and
no white faces being in sight amused
themselves with firing in the air and
smashing the windows of the stores. A
part of the same crowd occupied Robb's
lot, firing upon and clubbing white men
who CHANGED to pass.
FIRING ON THE BOYS IN BLUE.
Private Remke,, of Company E, Fifth
United States Artillery, while walking
down King street to join his company,
was fired upon by the crowd, and narrow
ly escaped with his life Several gentle
men were shot at on their way down town,
and several of them were wounded and
beaten. The character of the negroes
who took part in the riot can best be
illustrated by an incident which occurred
in the Guardhouse A negro man named
Marcus Green was wounded in the leg:
He was also drunk. Upon being laid
upon the floor, and while the surgeon was
attending 10 the wound, the savage would
rise up in sitting posture and exclaim ::
"Lemme kill one more before die
Lemme shoot one white man more" He
was painfully but not seriously wounded.
The mob who had thronged the Court
house, and who were mainly instrumental
in getting up the riot and continuing it,
.retreated up Broad street and procured
their arms in an incredibly short space of
time. Buttz and Worthington were in
Buttz's house in Broad street, and were
seen to pass out rifles to the mob.
THE LIST OF CASUALTIES.
AS far as could be ascertained last
night, the list of casualties footed up one
killed and about twenty-five wounded.
The names of these are as follows:
WHITES.
Mr.. E. II. Walter, shot through the
breast; dead.
Mr.. Geo. H. Walter, through the left
breast; dangerously wounded.
DR.. G. c. Patrick, slight wound in the
head.
Mr.. Williams, shot in the groin F;
wound painful, but not mortal.
Mr.. John Burns, wounded in the face;
seriously.
Mr.. Houston, badly beaten, and right
arm dislocated.
Mr.. F. J. McGarey, wounded in the
head; slightly.
Capt. F. w. Dawson, shot in the right
leg; flesh wound.
Mr.. J. G. Patterson, wounded in the
DR.. J. D. Geddings was knocked down
with a club and badly beaten.
Mr.. Foster Black was struck in the
chest with rock.
Mr.. George Tucker was badly injured.
He received pistol shot in the leg,
another in the thigh and one in his right
arm.
Mr.. John Esdorn was shot in the leg.
A number of other gentlemen were
wounded, but none mortally.
coLoRED.
Cicero Gibbes, a colored Democrat,
from James Island, was mortally woun-
ded, the ball having penetrated his abdo-
men.
A. Washington, shot in the knee.
John Chestnut, shot in the stomach,
,rnr,oeod IN he mortal
Private Delaire, of the police, wounded
in the right arm, slightly.
Private F. Brennan, wounded in the
arm, slightly.
Marcus Green, wounded in both legs,
dangerously.
Abram Branch, wounded in the left
cheek.
James Drayton, shot in the back of the
head, slight.
Private Thompson, shot in the right
leg.
Felix Drayton, shot in the leg.
Policeman Henry Carol, flesh wound.
in the head.
Alta late hour last evening most ofthe
wounded colored men were conveyed to
the hospital.
THE ACTION OF THE POLICE.
Dr. Cassimir Patrick gives the follow
ing statementin connection with the riot,
and is willing to make an affidavit of the
facts: 81 was standing opposite the Neaos
and Courier Office when the row com
menced. After the firing had ceased
temporarily in Broad street, heard shots
in Meeting street and went up there, and
at the time reached the corner of Meet
ing and Broad streets, there were no
white men in that immediate vicinity.
While I stood by the lamppost at the
northeast corner of Broad and Meeting
streets saw three negro policemen go
behind the first pillar OF the Stationhouse
and fire at ME with rifles at least six times
in rapid succession. was doing nothing
at the time but quietly standing at the
corner. As soon as l found beyond a
doubt that they were firing at me, drew
my revolver and returned the fire and the
policemen ran into the Stationhouse.- -
Immediately after this [ was struck on
the head with a brick, and turned to a
colored man standing near by and asked
if he had hit me. He replied that he
did not, and that he had nothing to do
with the row. A gentleman then came
up and told me that colored man had
lifted the sash in the City Hall and had
hit me with rock and then slammed the
window again. I then went over to Capt
Hendricks and told him that his negro
police had fired upon me several times
Capt. Hendricks said: Il have seen their
firing into the whites, but / had nothing
to do with it, and they have had no or
ders to fire upon any one Capt. Hen;
bricks appeared very much annoyed, and
am confident that he was not in the
slightest degree to blame for the infa'
nous conduct of the negro policemen re-
ferred to. This statement is corrobora
ted by several other witnesses, and yet il
is but justice to say that many member:
of the force-the old members-behaveo
with commendable courage and GOODNESS
WHO KILLED Mr.. WALTER?
1t seems to be the general impression
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