St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-10
Citizens of the Southern City
Greatly Excited Over Sat-
urday Nights Work.
Fifteen Companies Already in
the City and Many Others
Coming.

the duUUOrlll6S nave ldhcu CNSly plO-
caution to avert a repetition of last
nights horrors. Col. B. F. Jones, of the
Second regiment, arrived to-day and
assumed command of the militia. Sheriff
Smith, in an interview, said he deeply
regretted the occurrences of last night,
but felt that he had simply done his duty
in upholding the majesty of the law.
He said he gave the mob ample warning
and did not give the order to fire until
it was absolutely necessary to do
SO, and that after the mob had
began to fire upon the jail.
Mayor Thompson, who was only intro
duced into office last Wednesday, issued
a proclamation this morning, express
ing sympathy fol- the families OF the
victims of last nights tragedy, and
deeply regretting the occurrence, but
favoring the maintenance of law and
order, and appealing to all who love
peace and good order to refrain from
public aSsemblage and remain in the
quiet of their homes. The death OF
Postmaster Throckmorton, which oc-
Cured at $50 this morning. has added
to the sorrow of the community. He
was one of Birmingham's most
popular citizens, and leaves a
young wife and one child. He had
served as agent for the Southern EX-
press company and ticket agent for the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad COM
pany, and was appointed postmaster by
President Cleveland some eighteen
months ago. The death of A. d. Bry-
ant was also peculiarly sad, he, like MI.
Throckmorton, having been engaged in
an effort to quiet the mob when shot
down. He was shot through the heart
and died suddenly.
As THE KILLED AND WOUNDED:
M. B. THROCKMORTON, postmaster. He
was ABOUT thirty years OF age and born in
Louisville, Ky, and came to Birmingham III
1880 as agent for the Southern Express COM
pany.
An unknown negro shot through the lungs,
and died this morning.
j. r. MCCOY was toward the front of the
crowd when the firing commenced. He fell
at the first Volley.
Alb. TARRANT was shot in the back. After
the first volley he lay down on the ground
with the hope of avoiding the flying bullets.
ball struck him as he lay on his back and
ranged up the back. After few minutes
suffering he died.
A. D. BRYANT was shot through the
heart He was standing rather near the
front and was doing his best to restrain the
crowd from going any nearer. He fell at the
first volley and died instantly.
C. G. TATE was shot through the hip,
thigh and loin. He is a painter, and lived
at East Lake. He is about foTtyf years
old and had a family.
COLBERT SMITH (colored), shot through
the right lung, died this morning.
LAWRENCE FITZHUGII, a civil engineer,
was badly wounded. He was shot through
the shoulder. He is thirty years old.
CHARLES BAILEY was shot through the
head, it is thought fatally. He lived for
merly at No. "a Church street, Boston.
A. j. SCIIIEDE, a mechanic, was shot in
the left side, just under the shoulder 1t is
thought that he will die. He came recently
from Kalamazoo, Mich. Several of his COM
panions were wounded, but less seriously.
CHARLES JENKINS was shot in the back
of the head, the ball coming outin the canter
of his forehead. He lived until 10 o'clock
this morning. jenkins was twenty years old
and lived at Smithfeld with his parents and
three brothers.
BRANDEN at the hospital wounded in
the thigh and abdomen, died at 10 o'clock
this morning Just after he was shot he told
his attendants he boarded at the house of the
sheriff of Etowah county at Gadsden and
was here on business before the United
States court.
J.W. MONTGOMERY received Sigh
wound in the left jaw.
DIR. BERKELEY was shot through both
legs below the knee while sitting on the lear
porch of the residence of ". Siddons on the
corner of Twenty first street and Third ave-
nue..
CHARLES BAILEY, brakeman on the
Louisville d Nashville, was shot in the right
side just below the nipple His home is in
Boston. His wound, while not necessarily
fatal, may prove serious
JOHN H. MERRITT is at the hospital, shot
through the calf of the left leg.
MATT KENNEDY is also at the hospital,
shot in both legs below the knee, the right
leg being badly shattered, the left having a
flesh would He is also shot IN the left arm
Just below the elbow. and the bone is broken.
He is fiftv years of age, and has wife and
seven children.
J.W. OWEN is at the hospital, shot en-
tirely through the tight thigh. He is car
penter, and about fifty years of age.
j. w. GILMORE is, it is thought. fatally
wounded through the bowels He is forty
six years of age, and has wife and five
children living at Green Springs.
FRANK CHILDER is dead.
ALBERT SMITH (colored) was shot in the
back and seriously wounded.
William Youngblood Mr.. Alexander and
Ed S. Cooper, reported as killed or wounded,
are not hurt.
W. A. BIRD was shot in the right shoul-
der, the ball passing entirely through him
and coming out near the spinal cord. Mr..
Bird is thirty years old and unmarried.
THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS.
The Nashville Americans special
saws: "The defenders of last nights
wholesale slaughter are quoting, in be-
half of its perpetrators, that the blood
of the martyr is the seed of the church.
They declare that the killing was done
by sworn officers of the law in solemn
discharge of their duty, and
that this example of unterrified
intent to uphold the statutes in
all their majesty will prove
a valuable. though tragic lesson to mobs
in the future. The public, however, ,are
not disposed thus rs;,.:svsvpiliva,iy to
look upon tie awful tragedy, and nine
citizens out of every ten in this frenzied
CITY are in open denunciation of the
awful crime. Men were shot down who
were neither mobbers nor meters of
mob violence. Their dead bodies, when
examined, were not loaded down with