The Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (New Albuquerque, N.M.) 1882-1884, 1884-03-30
HORRORS OF THE MOB.
THE COORT HOUSE BURNED.
Dozens of People killed and HuRd-
dreds WQunded-A Reign or
Terror Growing Worse
Every Moment.

CINCINNATI, March 2o, . a. m.-Therc
is still quite acrowd around the jail, but
collected there by curiosity. The milf
tary is still on guard and no further St
tack is anticipated. The following is an
additional list of the killed and woune ID
last night: Private Edward Neuthcsi,
slight; private Herman Rose, sligrt;
Harry Polling. serious; Charles Gibbons.
slight; policeman Phil Mum, serious; DR..
Arthur Boutillier, arm shattered; pr.
Muscraft, police surgeon, slight; Chris
Ceggen, policeman, slight: Henry Yaeger,
slight; John Griffith, fatal: Martin Raffer-
ty, fatal; Charles Bartling, serious; ---
Lawton, slight: -- Donaldson, slight;
Mike Hobe, slight; Adolph Busser, slight;
Cyrus Johnson, slight; --Reid, slight
ly; ]. A. Leonard, slight; Jack Bergman,
slight; Mary Smith, fatal; Geo. Weller,
serious. A man from Virginia was
wounded and refused to give his name
As the meeting at the music hall ad-
Iourned last night the attention of the
people was attracted by a young man
who cried out "Come follow me and help
hang Berner.v Although there might
have been an intention to organize mob,
this was then taken up and spread the re-
port this morning that Berner had been
recaptured and hanged at Love-
land. this proved groundlcss.
Meanwhile, without abatement, the
crowd around the Jail soon reached Io-
600 people. There were about 200 men
in the lead, who took the initiative in all
steps, but saidvery little. As soon as it
was learned in the jail that the mob was
outside, Sheriff Hawkins called up Fire
Marshal Bunker by the telephone and
the riot alarm was sounded. The sheriff
and posse made all preparations to re-
pei the attack. On the way to the Jail
the mob secured long heavy scantling
and used il as battering ram. They
began operations on the north outside
door and knocked hole large enough to
admit mans body, through which the
mob crowded and about fifty men mount
ed the stairs, here they were met by the
police and forced back into the jail Office.
Not a shot had been fired up to this time
by the forces within. The Jail stairway
was again in possession of the sheTiff7s
forces, and a struggle began for the iron
gate. The colored leader was seized and
dragged inside; then the gate was closed.
Several others being arrested about the
same time, the mob seemed rePulsed.
Their efforts were then redoubled. The
southern gate to the yard was broken
down. In the meantime Sheriff HaW-
kins sent an order to Col. Hunt, COM
manding the First regiment, to report to
him in Jail. About forty men were on
duty and they went TO the jail, passing
through the Jail and the tunnel already
mentioned. Here occurred the first
The further end of the tun-
mel was guarded by the officers Num-
and Van Seggern. AS the soldiers ap-
preached by threes with their guns
pointed, the officer Won Seggern threw up
his hands and shouted ~for Gods sake
don't shoot. You'll kill your friends"
Without needing his warning the COM
mand fire was given and volley went
rafting through the tunnel. Num- fell,
pierced by four balls. Van Seggern was
Shot in the side of the head. Several of
the militia were shot by their own guns.
This volley had the effect to clear the
Jail, but for two hours thereafter were
made efforts to destroy the whole build
ing. A barrel of coal oil was poured
down into the lower part Of the jail and
set on fire, but the officers within man.
aged to extinguish il. The carpenters
Office within furnished more wood, and
that also was burned, but as the Jail was
stone and iron this effort was futile. The
crowd threw haulders 4 the windows the
militia in the meantims firing from the
windows into the crowd. The sheriff tried
to control this firing by ordering that not
more than one man should fire at time,
and then only to frighten, not to kill, but
the men were uncomfortable and fred at
the crowd, doing deadly wqkAS
The crowd broke into the
armory and Kirtridge's gun store, and
got arms, but by the time this was done,
the crowd had thined out so that no
further attempt was made. At 2:3o this
morning quite was restosed.
Berner's crime was assisting Zoe Pal
mer, (colored) in the cold-blooded mur-
der Of his employer, Vim. H. Kirk; Christ
mas eve. for the pcrpose of robbery.
Both he and Palmer confessed the mar
der but the jury found him guilty of man
slaughter. This, with the fact that twen-H
ty untried murderers are in jail. is what
inhamed the public mind. The feeling
is by no means allayed by last nights
tragedy, and is growing not only against
tie murderers, but against the militia,
upon whom the whole responsibility for
the loss of lite is placed. Sheriff Haw-
lSins had repulsed the mob without blood
shed. and was holding them when the
militia entered, and the FIRE by the sol
diers was in direct opposition to his pro-
test.
COLUMBUS, O., March 2o.-Trainmen
and passengers who arrived here after
give the following account of
the mob at Loveland and the effort to get
Berner to Columbus: The two deputies
with Berner drove from Cincinnati over
to Linwood, and here took accommoda-
tion. From Linwood Joe Moses was
then to go to the Little Miami depot,
quietly boarded the train for Columbus
and join two deputies and Bener at
Loveland. When the Little Miami train