Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-03
TELEGRAPHIC.
A Mob After the Prisoners
Neal and Croft.
DESPERATE EFFORTS MADE TO
GET THEM.
The State Militia Fire Upon
the Mob.
THE PRISONERS LANDED SAFE
AT CINCINNATI.
Dick Little on Trial for
Conspiracy.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 2.-Mr. Phister, Clerk
Of the Granite State, says that Major
Allen engaged a steamer on Tuesday night
to convey the prisoners and troops to
Mayyille, but this was kept a secret even
from the other boats officers, Major Allen
wishing to avoid a collision with the mob.
They telegrsphed to Major Allen that they
would be at Catlettsburg at half-past II
O'Clock, but failed to reach there until
afternoon. He thinks that if they could
have arrived promptly the whole trouble
would have been avoided. When the boat
came to Catlettsburg there were signs OF 8
disturbance. Prominent men at that place
assured Captain kirker that the boat
would be attacked. The boat was kept of
for fear Of a disaster. A committee from
the Ashland mob waited upon Major
Allen and demanded the prisoners. The
demand was, Of course. refused. The
committee warned Major Allen that the
prisoners would be taken. When the boat
left Catlettsburg the mob took a train,
which consisted Of an engine, passenger
car and four fat cars. The train was
filled with men, and as the road runs near
the river al Star the men could be heard
hallooing and firing at the boat, but he
distance was too great to make this OF any
ether significance than Of defiance and
threatening. When Ashland was reached
the ferryboats were, apparently, filled
with belligerent people, and the wharf
boat was also full Of men, and the banks
Of the river lined with people. The pilot
blew the whistle as il to land,
but not with the intention Of
landing. This was a ruse to get
away from the ~ferryb0at. When the latter
saw the Granite State was steaming by,
four whistles were sounded by the ferry
boat, when the ~latter's whistles were
sounded by the ferry boat to get the Gran
lite State to land. No attention was paid
TO it, and then the firing began. The
Granite State refused to take the prisoners
under written orders issued commanding
them to do go. Breeze Dennis, who,
with Mr.. Williams, occupied the pilot
house, the latter beingo on watch, says that
two soldiers were placed in the pilot house
to keep the pilots at their post. He says
shots were fred al the Granite State, both
from the wharf and from the men on the
bank. Many Of these were aimed at the
pilot house, and six balls struck it. A
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other parts Of the boat. OF the firing
from the bank and wharf boat Dennis is
certain. Both he and Clerk Phister say
it would have been easy for the ferryboat
to overtake them and would have had a
renewal Of the battle if the troops had not
acted with promptness in returning the
fire. They speak in commentator OF the
action Of the officers, and say nc dispo-
sition was shown to be blood-thirstv or
malicious.
LEXINGTON Ky, Nov. 2.-Major Allen,
in command OF the troops which fred
on the people at Ashland yesterday, made
a statement. He says the mob which
came down to Catlettsburg stated they had
1000 determined men, and that when they
got to Ashland the troops would be over
powered; that a train containing the mob
was kept alongside the boat, and fired
many shots at it, the troops not returning
the fire under orders. At Ashland the
~ferryboat came out and the occupants be-
gan firing, and il was not until several of
the soldiers were wounded that the COM
mand was given to return the fire. The
soldiers fred at those on the ~ferryhoat,
and If the persons on shore were hit it was
because they needlessly exposed them
selves in the vicinity Of the murderous
mob whom it was necessary TO oppose with
force.
C~INcINSAT1, Nov. 2.-The Granite State
carrying the prisoners. Neil and Craft,
from Catlettsburg to Marysville, reached
here this morning. Her officers state that
the boat was taken into the service OF the
State by Major Allen, and commanded to
make no landing except at Portsmouth.
They did not land even at Portsmouth,
and reached Mavville at 2 A.. NJ, where
there was no excitement, there being no
news Of the trouble. The prisoners, who
had been carefully guarded, were trans-
ferred to jail, and the officers knew moth
ing more about them. They say the pilot
house and all the upper part Of the boat
show bullet marks, but that only two SOL
diers and a roustabout were injured by the
FIRE Of the men on the ferryboat. One of
these was a drummer, who was hit in the
hand. Another soldier was struck on the
head. Their wounds are not serious.
4 Peculiar Verdict.
HUNTSVILLE tAia.l, Nov. 2.-Diok Lit
tie, on trial for a conspiracy connected
with the robbery st Mussel Shoals, on
Aug. 10, 1881, was found guilty yesterday.
He proved that he was in Kentucky at the
time Of the robbery, which he says was
committed by Frank James and Bill Ryan.
who were hiding from the officers. He
admitted that at other times and places he
had run and robbed with the gang. The
verdict is a peculiar one. 1t declares the
jury's belief In what Little testified to,
but says he is guilty of conspiracy never
theless.
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