Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03

IL was, went back again. There was no
] danger there of fire. The mob kept pres
emit, bowling az very demons, but doing
nothing.
| No confusion was ever worse No one
! could get inside the jail to find out the
situation there. It was an hour ana
half before boy shot inside couio DC
brought out.
During the confusion 1t was next
to impossible to get at the
facts, but at 1880 q. m. things
| were quieting down some. 1t then
appeared that there was an actual con-
| fict between the mob and military. When
| the inner door between the reception
| room and cell rooms was broken down
the military fred on the mob at that
place and Lew Kent, aborer
and member of the mob, was
| shot and killed. This seemed to break the
spirit of the mob, though they did not re-
| tire hastily. A number of brickbatS were
| thrown by them at the soldiers and po--
| lice. but generally there was not much
bitterness of feeling displayed on either
side. The great superiority OF the de-
| tenders of the Jail over the unarmed ana
| impromptu mob was so manifest Wnen tine
former opened fire that 1t would
have been utter folly to make any furtner
u.
were arrested in Jail. The jailer's resi-
dence in the Jail, which was entered by
portion of the mob, was rudely handled,
the windows broken and furniture
smashed. From this a number OF men
made their way into the kitchen ana
thence to the lower corridor. After the
apparent REIMBURSEMENT OF the main Ell
fort to get at the prisoners the mob lin
gered outside, throwing stones and brick
bats at the windows.
LAS A. M.-News Just comes from the
Jail that the mob is not defeated yet.
They have broken into the armory of
the Veteran Regiment and taken the
guns. More firing has been done at the
Jail. The mob is now looking for ammu--
milton with a prospect OF success.
The mob broke into the National Guard
armory, took out about 1000 muskets,
formed three abreast and marched to the
Jail. They shot away all their ammuni--
and then marched down Main street and
broke open Kittredge's gun store, which
they rifled, taking everything they could
Law their hands on in the shape of arms
and ammunition.
"a. Nj. AT this hour the number of
the mob is ,>erhaps from 1900 to 5000.
They are sw.'aring they will yet get in
and hang all the murderers inside. They
have procured a barrel of coal oil and
poured it over the Sheriff's Office, swear
ing they would yet burn down the build
ing, and some are meditating an attack
on the gun stores for arms. The militia
and police are all on the inside awaiting
developments.
The mob fired on the soldiers when the
latter came up from the cellar. The
murderers in the cells were scared nearly
to death. johnson, the black bunker, was
nearly white.
The First Regiments armory has beens
guarded for three nights in anticipation
of this affair, but the Veteran regiment,
of which Sheriff Hawkins is Colonel, did
not take the same precaution.
2;15 A. M.-Newton Cobb, of Man.
chester, O., was shot in the shoulder by
q soldier, through tn. Jail window. Cobb.
was a by-stander on the sidewalk. The
crowd claim soldiers are firing un.
necessarily upon the outsiders merely
looking on. On the other hand the
soldiers dread an effort to burn the
place or blow it up by rolling coal oil
barrels into the basement and justify
themselves in clearing the sidewalks on
that account. 1t is said that a number OF
women spectators have been hurt with.
random shots. The firing of guns is still
heard at intervals.
$3.50 A. M.-The firing by soldiers from.
the windows has been terribly destruct-
i've. The following wounded have been
gathered into the drugstore at Court and
Walnut streets and at the hotel near:
James Green, dying.
Walter Fay, dying.
James Turk, MORALLY wounded.
+. SOehn, bad wound in thigh.
Ed Duleff, shot in the legs.
These were all bystanderS, and there is.
growing bitter feeling against the.
soldiers.
The mob has taken all the arms they
want from kittredge's store, including a.
small cannon.
CINCINNATI. O., March g.
Berner was sentenced to twenty years.
in the Penitentiary, the full limit
of the law. 1t appears that after.
the sentence he was disguised and placed
in buggy with. Deputy Sheriff.
Dominick Devote and driven to Linwood.
where they got aboard the Morrow &C.
commodation and went to Loveland
to await the arrival of Criminal
Deputy Joe Moses with the neces--
sary papers for committal to the Peni--
Tertiary. 1t became known that Berner-
was at Loveland and crowd gathered.
When the train with Moses aboard came
In and Devote and Berner went to board
it the crowd made q rush for Berner. He
ran through car and escaped, and is
still at large.
Berner, when he escaped from
the mob, rushed through the Ia
dies car, knocking q woman down. A
man shouted, ''Train robber! Shoot
himw Four revolvers were drawn but
none fired as he was so quickly out of the
car. He jumped of, and was seen by a
woman to run to the river bank, where
he passed out of sight and has not since,
been heard from. The people blame
Deputy Sheriff Devote for carelessness
in going about with Berner with no.
Fatal to the Sheep.
PITTSBURGH PA, March 20
A Newcomerstown, Ohio, dis
patch says: "a peculiar malady
termed "grub" is just now carry
ng off many sheep in this Sec
ion, and sad havoc is being made among