The Forrest City times., 1891-10-16
LYNCHED BY A WILD MOB
NoMAHA NEGRO TAKEN FROM
 JAIL AND HANGED.
Efforts of tho Police of no Avail tn Checking the Rioters I'm Their De-
 siGn-Dragged over tue stones.

OMAHA. Neb, Oct. l1.-Public senti- ment ye sterday was wrought up hlgn- ly by the execution of "Ed Neal. This tension was added to when report became current that Lizzie Yates, the 5-year-old victim of an assault by Joe Coe, disreputable negro, had died. Coe was confined in the city jail, but the people did not know it.
 I've will lynch the nigger," was soon heard on every side and it swas evident that before night all the days comment would terminate in trag- edy. Night came on with an ominous quiet. Few people were in the streets. There was no intimation of the trouble in sight.
 Suddenly, about 9:30 o'clock, there were confused sounds of a tramping and nurrymg along the paved street toward the county iail, and in a re. markedly short time the iail was sur rounded. There was no organization apparent. No leader seemed to con trol the crowd. Yells filled the air, hundreds shouting at once what to do. No attack was made on the jail for many moments, the mob standing irresolute, waiting for some one to lead.
 In the meantime few policemen and force of deputy sheriffs that otficiated in the Neal hanging were con entrated at the jail The mob was lowering about the east entrance, clamoring for some one to start the trouble, A rush was made for the south door of tho jail. "We will get in here, shouted the leader,
 "Stop!" said glittering six-shooter in the heads of Capt. Cormack, so the leaders halted.
 What do you want ?'' asked the cap tain
 We want that negro" was the re- ply, ''and we will get nim-get out of the way"
 "If you take a step thIs way I'll kill you" said the captain, as he showed the pistol under the spokes- mans nose. Persuasively silent, the little round hole in the barrel, backed by true officers iron nerve, did the work. and the crowd abandoned the Harney street door,
 Then sledges were brought and the east door assailed. This was built of strong steel lattice. Once inside, four more steel lattice doors must be broken through. This seemingly i'm penetrable wall stood between the prisoner and the crowd of angry men who having tasted blood thirsted for more.
 About a block away is the power house of the cable street railway com pany. Near it are huge piles of rails and long heavy bars of steel. In d minute half a dozen of these were borne by sturdy hands up the hill. While this was being done the tele- phone wires had been cut and there was no communication with the jail.
 Ex-Gov. Boyd pushed his way through the crowd to the jail door and before blow by the battering ram was struck he essayed to speak to the crowd.
 '.It will be 6 disgrace to Omaha, :" he commenced. 'I implore you to be quiet and desist from your unlawful efforts. Let tho law take it's due course; let
 His words were cut off by man with a sledge, who said, You are not Governor here. Get out; go attend to your opera house" and the steel rail changed against the steel door.
 In five minutes the door was open. Then there was a short barley and the second door was assailed.
 While all thIs was golng on the Omaha police force of ninety men was gathered but coneentrat on was inn possible. The officers were lost in he crowd. Some one suggested that the fire department be called out and the hose turned on, but it was not that kind of a mob. The tremen came and laid their hose and the crowd simply carried away the lines and drove the firemen away. They were after the negro.
 It did not take the crowd long after the second door was passed to effect an entrance to the huge steel cage in which the cells are located. There, wrapped in blanket, covered the trem bling wretch for whom the lynch CTS sought.
 A howl of wild exultation was sent up by the leaders, who called for tools to cut their way into the cage, yell after yell of triumph went up from the outside and soon sleGges and cold chlsels were in the hands of those nearest the cage. As the clang of the blows rang through the jail and into the courtyard the crowd kept up it's bowling.
 In the meantime the police und CT Chief Seahy undertook to mass at the jail entrance. The crowd surged up, picked up the police and carried the m to the edge of the yard. There they stayed. Then the work went on.
 Inside the cage the negro begged and pleaded. He insisted he was charged with burglary He prayed and cried and rolled on the floor in terror. His shrieks for mercy were answered with blows that brought hls executioners nearer At this time the door was open. With one last yell of terror the negro was seized by the hands of men eager for his blood and thrust through the corridor. Here men to identify him were called for. It was determined to make no mis- take. So on pr6ssei those who knew him and his doom was sealed.
 A lamb would have fared better amid pack of wolves. Coe was not torn limb from limb, but he got thousand curses and blow for every curse.
 There is driveway fifty yards long leading from the jail to the intersec- ton of Seventeenth and Harney streets. This is paved with granite. Over this rough road the wretch was drag ged by his ruthless captors. Since he had reached the door he had not spoken word and in all probability was unconscious By the tune the street was reached he was dead. It mattered not that fife was extinct.
 A rope was thrown over trolly wire of the electric line. It had served to drag the doomed man from his cell. Then hun6red hands pulled and a hundred men snrnnl ha.ls and h1nh