The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-05

the mob is not at this hour (midnight) |
known. Two policemen were shot By |
the rioters, one miltiaman, one civil
ian and one boy, the last badly hurt.
The mob remained outside bowling, |
yelling and threatening vengeance. |
They gathered up material and
made bonfire against the |
strong, thick stone walls of the jail.
The flames made a great light and yell
was raised that the Jail had been fired. 1t
looked as though the mob had deter
mined on q wholesale holocaust. An
alarm was turned on and the engines
came to the scene, but could not get near
the place for the crowd, and seeing what
it was, went back again. There was no
danger there Of fire. The mob keptpres-
ent, bowling as very demons, but doing
| nothing.
No confusion was ever worse. No one
could get inside the Jail TO find out the
situation there. 1t was an hour and a
half before boy shot inside could be
| brought out.
During the confusion 1T was next
| to impossible to get at the
facts, but at $50 a. IN. things
were quieting down some. 1t then
appeared that there was an actual con-
! fict between the mob and military When
| the inner door between the reception
| room and cell rooms was broken down
| the military fired on the mob at that
place and Lew Kent, laborer
| and member of the mob, was
shot and killed. This seemed to break the
spirit of the mob, though they did not re-
tire hastily. number of brickblts were
thrown by them at the soldiers and po-
lice, but generally there was not much
bitterness of feeling displayed on either
| ai6a Tho SnnprOritV of the de.
tenders of the jail over the unarmed and
impyomptu mob was so manifest when the
former opened fire that 1t would
have been utter folly to make any further
| effort. Some twenty-five or thirty men
were arrested in jail. The jailer's resi-
dence in the Jail, which was entered by u
portion of the mob, was rudely handled,
the windows broken and furniture
smashed. From this a number of men
made their way into the kitchen and
thence to the lower corridor. After the
apparent REIMBURSEMENT of the main eff
fort to get at the prisoners the mob lin
gered outside, throwing stones and brick
bats at the windows. "
l:45 A. M.-News Just comes from the
Jail that the mob is not defeated yet.
They have broken into the armory of
the Veteran Regiment and taken the
guns More firing has been done at the
iail. The mob is now looking for ammu-
milton with a prospect of success.
The mob broke into the National Guard
: armory, took out about 1000 muskets,
I formed three abreast and marched to the
JAIL. They shot away all their ammuni-
and then marched down Main street and
broke open Kittredge's gun store, which
they riled taking everything they could
lay their hands on in the shape of arms
and ammunition.
"a. NAT this hour the number of
the mob is perhaps from 1900 to 5000.
They are swearing they will yet get in
and hang all the murderers inside. They
have procured a barrel of coal oil and
poured it over the Sheriff's office, swear
ing they would yet burn down the build
ing, and some are meditating an attack
on the gun stores for arms. The militia
and police are all ON the inside awaiting
, developments.
The mob fired on the soldiers when the
latter came up from the cellar. The
murderers in the cells were scared nearly
; to death. johnson, the black burker, was
! nearly white
The First Regiments armory has beer
guarded for three nights in anticipation
Of this affair, but the Veteran regiment
of which Sheriff Hawkes. is Colonel, die
/ not take the same precautlon.
, 2;l5 A. M.-Newton Cobb, of Man
i chester, o., was shot in the shoulder b!
e soldier, through the jail window. Cobt
was by-stander on the sidewalk. Th'
5 crowd claim soldiers are firing un
v necessarily upon the. outsiders merel
d looking on. On the other hand III
!, soldiers dread an effort to burn tn
place or blow it up by rolling coal oil
e barrels into the basement and juStlf
d themselves in clearing the sidewalks Oh
that account. 1t is said that number o
Is women spectators have been hurt wit
t. random shots. The firing of guns is still
D heard at intervals.
t. 2:30 A. M.-The firing by soldiers fror
id the windows has been terribly destruct
5. i've. The following wounded have bee
10 gathered into the drugstore at Court an
a Walnut streets and at the hotel near:
ID James Green, dying
TT Walter Fay, dying.
re James Turk, MORALLY wounded.
F. Soehn, bad wound In thigh.
RI Ed Duleff shot in the legs.
- These were all byStanderS, and there l
= a growing bitter feeling against tn
- soldiers. ..,
~ The mob has taken all the arms the
want from Kittredge's store, including
tv small cannon.
e; CINCINNATI. o., March 49,
no Berner was sentenced to twenty year
&C in the Penitentiary, the full lin
m. of the law. 1t appears that ate
M the sentence he was disguised and place
or in buggy with Deputy Sheri
yd Dominick Devote and driven to LinwooC
where they got aboard the Morrow a.
es commodation and went TO Lovelan
to await the arrival of Crimin
ey Deputy Joe Moses with the nece
er sary papers for committal to the Pen
By Tertiary. 1t became known that Bern'
ut was at Loveland and crowd gathere'
nil When the train with Moses aboard can