Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-15
THE DANYILLE RIOT.
Narrowing Tales Unfoidpd by Ignorant
Darkies-First Wave Of Shcr-
mans nlnndY Shirt.

Washington, February l4.-Investi-
CATION into the Danville election riots
began this morning Congressman
Cahei and Johu S. Wise were present.
Walter $. Withers, colored police
man of Danvillr, testified that on No
Vember 81, white man and 81 colored
man got u hghting, and when sepa-
rated the crowd remained. The
! whites ranged themselves in n line
along the curb, while the col0red men
We're in the street. The whites had
pistols in their hands, and said the
colored man could get enough if thew
wanted, ana if they didn't leave some
OF them would get hurt. The negroes
Objected to leaving, saying that the
whites were trying to er-ride them
Firing then began, the first shots be.
ing hired in the air The Colored peo.
pie began To run, and the whites fired
AT them where they could see them.
None of the colored men had pistols,
one men was shot dead and Several
wounded. In consequence of
NE riot, the colored people
did not vote az the
election three days later, fearing vin-
lence. The affidavit of witness before
the committee Of forty was incorrect
in so far as il stated that the coIored
men used firearms. IL seemed some
thlng had been added to the affidavit
after he signed 1t.
Jack Iludd, colored, chairman of the
Republican, committee, testified that
he was in Danville ON the day of the
riot when the firing began. He left
the city afterwards, returning to see
thn result. He was met by Col. Ca
1eil, who asked where
he was going. Col. Cabell
said: This Is just what | have been
telling you would happen Ned
Hatcher came along with another
man, and asked Cabell who witne IS
was. Being informed, Hatcher said:
Let me blow his id brains out .
Col. Cabell said: "No, let the id
scoudrel leave here" Hatcher struck
witness, and as witness lett they began
hring on him. Witness saw his white
neighbors going into Dacyille
That night and returning with
guns they had procured in Danville: |
saw them going 10 the polls on cleo. |
uon day witt the same guns. The
colored people We're thereby intimi- |
dated, and concluded not TO vote.
IL l.. Levy, colored, saw white men
drawn up along the curb with their
pistols aimed. He started away and
firing began. The colored men ran
One was shot dead. jack Rudd. the
preceding witness, came ALONG
and asked of the colored men,
what are you all running foro
DE white people Is only burning now
aah lie replied: Whats de mean
ing Oh dat dead man ovuh dab IL dew
don't mean harm ~ Witness d..
escrlhed the maltreatment of Jack Rudd
by Hatcher anu Others, and thIeats
made to himself the same day bv white
people. Witness did not vote becau ye
OF rear inspired by the riot. [
w Il. Taylor, white, testified that
an ordinary low occurred on Novem.
Der 3rd between a white man and n
negro, which led to riot. When the
night began there were but three
willte men and some fifteen negroes
on the street in sight. AT the climay
lhere We're between two hundred and
lhree hundred negroes and nbnnt
hfteen white men. In witness onin,
ION, had the white men shown 70,
they would have all been mnrderad
,here. Witness saw two or three ,is'
to's among the negroes. Witnpn ,s,
emplied five chambers of his n,st sIes'
lhe crowd OF negroes, and wohId 49,
tssufediy do so again under like dir
He did not know Whether ,
40 MT any b0dy or not.
a, III. Blunt thought the whole !
rouble between the races arose fron,
10 insolence OF the negroes. He