Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-31
A CARNIVAL Of BLOOD.
cincinnati's Reign Of Terror in
the Name Of Justice.
The State Militia and q Mob
Face to Face.
Opening Of the Battle and its Prog
ress Through. Several
Days.
a CARNIVAL OF BLOOD.

ross through several
Days.
Fridays RECORD.
Cincinnati, March 2s-Excitement
over the Berner case is growing. 1t is
now reported that an organization is
forming among the Germans, not only
to hang Berner, but other prisoners in
the Jail charged with murder. VIM.
Berner was quietly brought before
Judge Mathews this afternoon and sem
fenced to the penitentiary for two years,
being the full limit of the, law. He
started for Columbus in charge OF .
strong guard early this evening.
Ten thousand people gathered in
Music hall, in response to a call by rep
0table citizens, to take action on the
Berner verdict. Many could not get in.
Strong resolutions were adopted con.
demnlng the verdict. A committee on
legislation was appointed. Upon ad-
journment the vast crowd moved direct
~ to the Jail, where it began an attack
on the front door. At9:4O the riot alarm
was sounded, summoning the entire
police force to the jail, vast crowds of
people gathering in that vicinity. Ber
ner was removed after his sentence this
afternoon, and IS now on his way to
Columb s, bat ii the mob gets in, other
murderers will be iynched.
The police, upon arriving in the vicin-
ity of the Jail, commanded the crowd to
move on. Not belng obeyed they fred,
but us no one was hurt, it was presumed
they fred III the air. 1t Is said the police
are in sympathy with the movement and
condemn the outrageous Berner verdict
A shot or two was fired from the Jail, but
the crowd refused to move. They have
good lead rs, aud are still, at ten p. M,
at work ut the Jail door.
At II p. m. reports from the Jail say
the crowd has got inside. There ie
difficulty in getting information about
their movements because the streets all
around the court house and Jail are
jammed. A reporter of the associated
press says that al II p. m. flom the stone
wall OF the Jail yard he saw great crowd
of men inside the Jail, but they had not
yet reached the cell-rooms. They were
we'll supplied with tools and at work at
all the doors. Apparently there was no
resistance to the mob, and on the other
hand no violence was being offered TO
persons by the mob. Patrol wagons
were standing IN front of the Jail, sur.
rounded by people. The militia have
been ordered out. but large numbers
failed to appear. There is a general dis.
position not to interfere with the mob.
Nothing has yet been heard from Sheriff
Hawkins, who is inside the court house
and cannot be reached. Mayor Stephens
Is confined to his house by sickness, leav.
ing the sheriff wholly responsible for the
preservation of order, except for the
assistance of the chief of police.
ll:3O q. m.-The fret regiment Ohio
National guards has just entered the
Jail, having been marched through tht
front entrance to the court house, thence
through q tunnel into the jail, where the
mob is thronging. It remains to be seer
whether the militia will do anything t.
Illustrate the purpose of the mob. The
police inside the Jail arrested some of the
first members Of the mob, but this soor
became impraoticable, and the police
refrained from using their pistols.
Itinow appears that Berner, after hi
sentence, was disguised and placed in .
buggy with Deputy Sheriff Dominicl
Devote, and driven to Linwood, wher,
they got aboard the Morrow accommoda
ton and went to Loveland. It becam,
known that Berner was at Loveland anC
crowd made rush for Berner. He raj
through car and escaped, and is still a
large.
Midnight-About thirty shots will
muskets we're fired by the militia for tn
purpose of soaring the mob. The resul
was that q glancing ball struck at leas
four. persons, inficting injuries whicl
may be fatal in the case of one or two.
Policeman Num- and Private Cook ar
the worst hurt. The latter was shot ii
the breast. The volley seems to hav
though the crowds have not yet disperse,
from about the jail. There does no
seem to be any doubt that these wound
we're inflicted BY the guns OF the soldiers
The mob made no effort to shoot SO ia
as known.
/ Columbus, O.. March 2S-Passenger
arriving here on the midnight train fror
Cincinnati, report that Berner, the mul
derer, while en- route to the penitentiary
was taken from the train by large mol
at Loveland, and it is thought he ha
been lynched.
Cincianati, March 29-l2:l5 q. nth
jail has been fred by the mob. Th
crowd on the street say they will cut th
hose to prevent the fire department fror
extinguishing it. The mob seems t
think holocaust is the only means {
accomplishing their purpose.
1880 o. m.-rhe fire engines responde
to the alarm, but after much difficulty j
getting near, found that the alarm wa
false and occasioned by bonfire bull
near the Jail. As the building is mainl
stone and iron, it would be difficult
fire 1t from without.
It now appears that there was q
actual conflict between the mob ON
and military, though it is most likely th
wounds of the police and military wei
inflicted by the fire of the latter. Whe
the inner door, between the receptio
room aud cell was broken down, th
military fred on the mob. Lew Kent,
laborer and member of the mob, wa
killed. This seemed to break the spir
of the mob-though they did not retir
hastily.
A number OF brickbats were thrown b
them at tsoldiers and police, but not muc
bitterness Of feeling was displayed o
strength of the defenders of the Jail owe
the unarmed and impromptu mob, was g
manifest Wien the former opened fir.
that it would have been utter folly t
make any further effort. Twenty-Five O
thirty were arrested in Jail.
| The jailor's residence, in Jail. whicl