The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-07-08

1 oneI MeCoy bays that he didn't sec /
done, bgtthat he wouldn't DO surprise,
0 II hat portion OF their story was true
y Blunt by begging to be put in hil
Jumped out Of the flying pan into ia,
lre' Wormley Garter was shorln Al
the time.
. The COLONEL then gave his expert
ehee OF the fire, As no was proceed
ing to his boarding house, which wa,
situated IN the southern portion Of IN,
town, hearing tho cry Of fire, he look,
} edand saw column Of smoke RISING
pgrpendicularly from the center OF
Wallace Peaks store. Huriying IN
town, lac had hardly reached the
square, when the danes broke ont I'm
two other distantly separate places, one
from the Dallas inn, the other from a
building about two stores east of
kTolps present stand. This proved.
conclusively, that incendlarism was
the cause Of It, The account of the fire
is detailed above.
The next day Grill Mllers wheat
stacks were burned, on the west side
OF the river and John llaken's house
east Of tho town, destroyed. News
was also received Of the burning by
negroes OF property and houses in
Lancaster Fort Worth, and Denton
county. All these things excited the
suspicious OF the citizens and the work
of Investigation began.
a darby owned by William Miller,
beng closely pushed, admitted that he
had set fire to the wheat stacks, and
disclosed a well concocted plan among
the negroes to arise, burn the property
aud murder the whites; that they had
been drilling in out of the way places;
had formed themselves into military
companies, and had collected some
arms and ammunition. He stated
that the plan had been suggested by
white men, but wouldn't give their
names, who had led them to believe
they would receive assistance from
the north. At this time the Indians
were very troublesome on the frontier
and the Johnson expedition was out
on duty, which left but few white
men at home. The Fourth of July
had been selected as the day to make
the general uprising, but it had
been postponed for some reason until
Saturday night. A time fuse of some
sort was used, but hung fire several
hours, the fire did not break out till
Sunday, That the whole thing was
planned to come OIL simultaneously is
proven by the breaking out of fires in
other places, and that white men
were at the head Of it there could be
no doubt, as the affair was well man.
aged, and the plans showed the action
of Intelligence superior to that of the
negroes.
A vigilance committee was formed
at once, embracing all the citizens.
All the negroes in town were arrested
and taken to the courthouse for eXN
animation. Guards were stationed
among them, to prevent compli cation
or the Matching upof defensive stories.
They We're taken out one by one and
questioned. OF course, many improb
able things were told, but as a rule
they told the identical story, each and
everyone of them, regarding the main
features of the plot; and what is
stranger yet, all the negroes who were
questioned and tried at other points,
all told the same thing regarding the
plot. From the disclosures it was
found that there We're about dozen
negroes who were acting as captains,
and directing the movements under
the Instructions of other leaders.
The citizens determined that an eX-
ample should be made. The question
Of the great loss of property which
would result in the execution of doz-
en- full.grown, able bodied negroes was
discussed, and there was some dissent
Colonel Mccoy himself was Of the
opinion that all were equally guilty,
and if one suffered all should and ticc
versa. At last il was decided to make
an example Of three Of the captains,
and they were ordered to be hanged
All the negroes from the surrounding
country were brought in to witness the
execution. The condemned were sus-
pended from n gallows on the river
bank, about where the railroad bridge
now crosses the stream; in fact, the
workmen, employed in digging for the
foundation Of that bridge, dug up the
bones of the three darkies who had
been buried there.
A HORRIBLE DESIGN.
A negro belonging TO II gentleman
named Quinlan, who was detected in
some devilment, was hauled up
and logged. lie confessed his
guilt, and on being questioned
stated that the negroes intended kill
ing all the oil women and wenches,
and taking the young white women
for themselves. His master asked
him what white woman he had chosen
and he replied, al was to have mis-
triss.p This so enraged his master
that he drew a revolver, and would
have killed the negro on the spot, had
not others interferred, who desired to