Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-31

thai thew are not likely to rally again
during the night. During lhe at'nsh
on Powell's gun store, Mr.. Powell ue.
Tended his property and killed at least
three men. One account says ne
Killed seven.
S;4, a. m.-Comparative quiet Is re-
stored: the mob has dispersed, tne
dead arc still lying in the streets ~
the vicinity of the conflict, and IL IS
safe TO estimate the killed ut my To
seventy.iive people, only small por-
ton of whom have been idenuheu or
their names procured The rumof
about the killing of Col. Hunt anu
O'Mcara is false. There were three or
four slight casualties in the JAIL. Inc
colonel of the Fourth regiment was
not able to collect his men, but Col
Church of the governors stan Is en-
deavoring to get him to JON tue rest
of his command.
BERNER's STATEMENT.
Columbus, Ohio, March 3o.-Berner
said to press reporter that he was IN
duced to make his confession oi zero
crate murder by parties around me
jail, who told him that II he confessed
he might get free. This was before ne
had engaged u lawyer. Aitefward ne
had four attorneys, ana thelT chlsi ann
on the trial was to destroy Inc elect OF
the cont, ssion he had made. Ihey
were successful in tins, ana py tecn-
nicalilies succeeded In pfacticaiiy
keepipp the confession out OF the evil
denee in The case. Tom Campbell of
Cincinnati was the leading lawyer OF
the four and to his efforts was due the
iact that Berner was convicted only oil
mauslaughter instead OF murder in the
ljrsl degree. Caricatures OF Campoell,
of nature to arouse prejudice and m
cite indignation against him, were cir.
culated In Cincinnati yesterday, ana
have been posted in Columbus to-day
Berneris associate In crime, negro |
who has not been tried, is one OF the
pris )ners In the Hamilton county JAZZ
DAYLIGHT DAwNs.
Cincinnati, March 30.--iit daylight |
this morning an Associated Press re-
porter walked through the quarter of
thecity where the stormyscenes OF the |
previous night had been enacted. The |
tlawniDg was as peaceful and brilliant |
rs ever seen. Against an eXquisiteiy |
tinted sky In the East, the broken
walls Of the burning court house we
distinctly defined with It's crumbled
window openings, looking like nude
wounds while over the ruins of the
treasurer's office In the northern part
of the building the Tuddy glow of
fire was still visible, and from
other portions the white colored smoke
and steam WAS rising, as
water thrown 10y engines fell
into the burning contents. Last
night when the sun went down the
occupants of the treasurer's Office We're |
sitting at the open plate glass windows
smoking cigars and reading accounts
of the previous nights attempts on the
iail. There WINS no thought That la six
hours these windows would Ice broken
and the accumu ated wealth ana con
tents of that great building in ruins,
but this building, great rs was its loss
wns merely property. The other
losses in that locality were of human
life.
POOLS OF BLOOD
here and there in the trampled dust or
Oh the brick sidewalks were to be seen;
only one hour before on Sycamore
street, before the court house, lay four
or five dead bodies of drunken or ven
turesome men, who, in spite of the
policemen's warnings, had gone be-
You'd the limit permitted by the
militia, when they fell under the fire
of the militia, No one dared To take
them away until the mob dispersed
and tue streets were clear. Only
two hours before, at 3 am,
when II small crowd gathered at the
drug store at Court and Walnut, one
square west of the court house to see
the patrol wagon take away dead
man, the militia, installing this for u
nf oil
killing one, woun1.ng nephew of the
proprietor of the store. One ball
struck the iron facing of the door, aud
rebounding, crashed through the glass
door near the head Of the proprietor,
who was using the telephone.
Passing to the north side of Court on
Walnut, sickening scene was pre-
scented. Here apparently the wounded
had taken shelter behind protecting
building, or perhaps here the fatally
wounded had crawled To die. Pool
after pool az blood dyed the ground
All along the curbstone, all along the
street, signs OF blood were visible,
and In n hallway three squares
distant on Main street the floor was
smeared where some unfortunate had
crawled to dress his wounds or die.
THE BuRNING OF THE COURT HOUSE
was wholly aimless aud malicious ex-
celt that one might find an excuse in
the feeling that The crowd was angertd
Mt the place where failure 10 do Justice
had been so marked. Ii did not aid
mt all In getting at the prisoners, nor
In doing harm TO the militia. 1t was
purely wanton, nor was there any ex
cuse for failure to protect
this property. The crowd was per-
United To go to the very
windows and break them in without
resistance, and when opportunity of.
fered, or some devilish communist,
who gloried In pure destruction sug.
gested 1t. To cast some light on the
subject, this was the trivial manner In
which he talked: This will be the
Paris of America Sure enough
said another. With this leadership
and with these motives, chairs, carpets
and desks were broken and put In
heaps In the treasurer's Office and a
match applied. As this was done the |
silly-headed or drunken hoodlums |
cheered and yelled:
"BURN THE D. MILITIA QUIZ
Just here occurred one of the most |
melancholy events of the night, the |
killing of Capt. John j. Desmond He
had been apprised Of the purpose To
burn the court house, and was sent
with squad Of militia to try and nut
out the fire. The mob fired on him,
aud u ball crushed through his head.
At the same time, Privat, Mcclure
was shot through the breast
and fatally hurt. Capt. Desmond
was young lawyer OF
much promise, n fine looking soldier,