The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-30
STORY OF THE RIOT.


FRANKLIN, June 2s.--fspeeiaI- The train 60
New Castle had not been gone four hours hef0re
the whites had plan arranged to drive out tho
other negroes and guards. IL was arranged that
twenty ty-dye men should ambuscads the incora-
Ing passenger train a. the Wye station below tha
town About fifty men were posted on tho hin
aboye the west end OF the town. and abonf
twenty-five more men made circuit 70 the
side OF the mountain imraeciately ahov,
the store, superintendent W r. 8iIlEarnxs
house The plan sseDaz 20 nave es-t snaf Wits
fke twenty I've nsn bezcw and tha I've
st the west end ~ s1e tcNu. YseW tae Ase~
shnrld sffs< lie srnts Aisd taz ssxru ssas1>eu q
hat dfsesfioa. sna tksfs draw the = hols Esrre
o. g1Ards ar1d usErn2s 10 that en1 u The fassr
the otnsF body wsa 70 ecEa Azn s.
mountain. drive out the few remaining dseend-
ers OF the store and adjoining houses, and burn
all those buildings Is was a skilfully arranged
pot, but it miscarried through one OF the
chances OF war which have foiled many . anely
laid plot
The story Of the Days hostiIities begins nstur-
ally with the departure Of the train for New Cas-
tie Some information OF the intention 70 trans-
fer some of the negroes seems 20 have reached
the strikers. for they were Sinking around for
an hour or swo before Two OF them one of
whom is Frenchnan named Con Ruells and
the other 10 described q slender man
Of about 5 feet inches weIrhsnx
~
red mustache. were found near the bunke-s on
the railroad The two guards who found them
took away their gnnE, but afterwards returned
them aud drove the men out OF the lines They
went down into the bottom and Joined ths
others who were in ambush there. The coforpd
men saw them coming back up the trail ana
say they were with the party Of nine sTho sffsr-
wards attacked the eosored guard
Deputy Sheriff Stretch tells how the New
Castle train started It carried fifty seven ne
groes and nine white guards, armed with twen-
ty-tvo Wincheste-s, twenty-ene carbines and
Martini rifles and other weapons IL started n
2.0 on sunday morning, and the strikers had
evidently been watching for its depa rture from
the station, for they had two spies near she
store who afterwards weat around On
the fats and blew q whistle
lew times II was answered FROM
further down the fats Then the whols bodv
marched through the bottom TO attack the train
Is il passed Jus; beyond the bnnksrx. Thsv
missed Il By just ens K1inutel They then
whirled around. passed two or three ~uarsfs rfv-
ing their Challenges, and walked down the sraek
toward the station which Ban CASTOR. eolored
guard, was holding This Is the woun cea mans
account Of bow he was shot.
Five minutes after the train had coma w~.
standing on my station some distance below o.
tunkers and near the sch0olhouss. Nina rns1
came cut Of the hollow and called on them =
halt They said: "Were citizens going hunf-
ing" and passed On down. The th7rd 90
tarned around and shof me In rhs s.sa s,,sS 1
above the right nip with q Winchester IL
ball passed through the iesh Mid rct erf~5
the GCOrser. He held the gan 90 close thas ~ 4
powder burned nv hesh- fell and roIia1 dnzres Il
the all distance Of about thirty ieer ~
Ea2n " no shot me took nay rife and ran srf11
the others, losing his hat as be ran Ia hsf -
low, black. soft EEf. was heavstv bzsfg- a6<1r< Z
ave tset four Inenes high, and had LACK carl3
raouztache. lay for about Eve minutes -
then the boys came along and found ne sn6
carried me 70 the hospital
CASTOR is fne athletic fellow Of asuut u
years He is unmarried, and came from Chestsx.
IL HIS wound q not serious and be il co.ne
well
When the New Castle special returned =
franklin IN The afternoon, thres armed men
were seen two or three miles below Black pas-
naond Tso answered the description of shfes og
tie party OF zine. srnorg whom was Gsstosasa
ssssilans- This attack On one Of their nuuber
aroused the negroes 20 fury. and il was ouiy ~
the Ereatesi s1sFtion that the guards and pep-
ufy sfserin Stretch could prevail upon thsm nos
70 make 4 rBsh 70 shs aas. ard a.ir.
the strikers into Grssn river. They wers
rEal4y q1iessd y the news that the train carry
Ing theiT nrsfAern had safely arrived as Ccxl
creek. where he New Castle mines are ioe..s<
AeAr~ni-e, however. the strikers were prepsr-
lag ior ne sItArk On tie passenger tram and the
HigEs eeusp, hsTtng oTeresrlraefed the nuzabsx
Of aegroes and quarts which had been trnns-
Ported There bad been driiEing with nrnx,
thirty I've 70 forty men - time. and the fact
that during seven lights of watching TIE suen
had been seea 70 eoasf45fiy 20 % and tro b.
tween franklin std Bizek Diamond Is Hsencs
that TIE Two calnps were working togei ~
During the sfteFnaon here was ~ unuxGzE
eEiefnssa en- the fats Ekieh, the wa Merp frs II
above thoDxht. to<isd 40 god Al = fuk3sy
minutes before sne trnfn eanae ngsln u
Troat1zan, Of sha guards. k3w J s4naz Aa1xzn
.l .ad kassard > WsiliAzas aaa &c ikss rzsa s;x
With fheir g1nG lie shrazhf zhng Neze 49,
io- no good aud sent twv asxxn xs.ras x s~11}
theza 70 20. They weee yery sa4Asn4Ef ~ ~.-I
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