The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-03-29
DAsyILLr INVESTIGATION.

| WAsHIHGrJN, March 2s.-lPrese THE
Dsnv,lle investigation was resumed thil
morning and twent,-tiye witnessss wer,
sworn NJ once. william II Kur'g p-st
master " Wsyn,shoro, 200 mites iron ban,
VILE, testified that be heard Of tho riot on
tho day nit,r IL occurred, no had been t1id
| ~ the mail messenger, who wAs an en-
| telegraph operator, that 4 telesram
asssd over the wires ordering n lsrge iu-
vpics OF pistols b. Danyille This wss OBJ
lscted to by Senator Vance and the or eG.
| lion WAS sustained. kur z heard jnl iiCs
ton speeches after th- election. A dsmo.
r'aiic Hossker said he thanked God tnr The
| Dinvlll riot; " wac a blessing IA disguise.
| o hpr witnesses ie.t lied tha Dan.
vii. oircnlsr was extrn.ivelg circulated
before thu election rnd had tho eifsot Oi
changing many votes TO Democrat, 70 lei
on The race isgus Ia The canvass. Foe re-
publican side suspended Tia txlmin.t inue
nt this poin pni Senator Vance hrR m the
examination IN rehuttl by ealing Petar
| V Boon, Il grocer Ol Dinyile. tie deacub
ed the riot; he saw the preliminary
q1Errel aud when IL Terminated ritnt s.
turned to crowd Of col1rsd peoDle aud
asked them 20 leave; they ~ used and dis'
played pistols, laying they hnd he.n misns.
ed and would not leave; whom the firing be-
gan theirs we're about fifteen wnitse and
100 Collred men; there wss no
alignment OF the whitss heard:
TO command 10 hfs; thers would
nave been no possibility ", missing the
Gro Nd Of hlscks ifthe whites had been seek
ing TO kill than; witness b-lissei II the
whites had not f'ed they would oil have
D-en murdered: the firing ceased when 10.
Esgross began - ran; some negroes tnrnsd
ss thsy ran aud fired bags; vitnoss never
hsard any preconcarted action TO being
about tho riot In all the mesiinea
attended by witucse tho leade cautioned
hsir toliowers 10 avoid noting srd VI lrnce;
the slsct,on was quiet one: there never
Was "a qui6tsr one; witness repeatedly trei
20 ret ths colored people to vote, but with
out success; they said they did not want TO
vote; witness heard portion
u Sims speech in his opinion
| u had great deal TO dc
With causing the riot; witnes, went
out without pistol; after the thing com
menced ne went back and got bis pistol
nat the firing was over when no goI back
| George Adams had testified That Witre,'
Ii ed at him, but witness said IL was untrue
witness DID nos shoot ~ anybody
| w J Dance young man, AID member
| " the firm In front OF whose ofiirs the riot
took plscs, was called IL, described the
riot; he seizsd bis gun, cooked botn parrel-
and stood IN tina door OF the otiics; h
did not fire, bus lsveied his gnt
| when he s.w the cDored ma
aiming their pistols: the bullet MARKS OF
tne front OF his office building could not
have been msde by sho from tho ~hi Z
| o-o Nd; IL was In this ofiics, ~itnssses hau
said, tina whit.s wen. and suppl cd them
| selves wish arms, theirs bsing according 70
several colored Witnessed large quantity
OF arms and ammunition sorsd hero
| wi.nssA said he was ths only man In the
ofiicu and he kspt the crowd out and 70
fussd to let any body in excspt two or thra'
| irsndI; there we're no arms In .se oMcs 81
cepl the gun held bv witnsss Nod one OH
pistol which was not servcsabls; 10 wa
sbsslutely unlras that thers vSre
srns In the office and shat tbs men sup'
Piled themselves; IL had been te.t he'd MA
four young men were sson going into th'
| office on tho dav OF the riot with i've guns
apiecs, "a vas false that young men wsre IL
tho back yard nj the office that tore
noon cleaning guns; witness bsltevs.d
Il the whites had not hred they woul
nxvs bosn murdered by the negroes, whf
fired NJ they ran; after the negroes brs-i
to run the white men did not fire; wi'nss
saw Twenty-Five or thirty black men VIII
pi,tols; 81 lie could see in the crowd ha
pis,ols: witness was present NJ the NEE
iog OF bis cub when the resolution psssr'
TO Withdraw al patronage rom tue COAL
iiDnists.