New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-13
NEGROES RISE IN ARMS.
A MOB ATTACKS THE JAIL IN PADJCAH. KY.
THEY OPEN FIRE on THE sIiERIFF's POSSE AND
KILL ONE M,S-ExPECTATIoy OF LYNCH
ING THE CAUSE OF TIE ATTACK.

ING THE CAUSE OF TIE ATTACK
Cincinnati Jnlv 1e.-"The Commercial Gazest"'s7
Paducah Ky DISPATCH says: soon after o'clock les
evening while the city Council was In session, the
chief OF police threw bomb in their midst by an
nouncing that report had Just reached MN mat -oo
or 800 negroes. armed with Winchester rifles hah con-
grcgated In tho vicinity of the Jail. prepared for an
attack The Council N once adjourned. The Mayor
Immediately sent n dispatch to the Governor asking
him to order ont Company C. NJ the state Guard be-
longing here. Every ablebodled man was soon on the
streets, and everybody that could Obtain arms Of any
kind did 50. The Sheriff had charge OF posse com
posed Of fifty or sevcnty-hve men, armed with SHOT
guns and revolvers procured from the various hard
ware stores.
At II 80 O'Clock the marshal and Mayor returned
to the Jail from round Of the squads OF negroes, who
when the Mayor and marshal declared that no violence
should be done the prisoner In the all promised to
dsperse, ~ began to do So Tile marshal addressed
the crows q white people ard told them to 20 to their
homes rs mo negroes dispensing and no violence
need now be fenred. This the people began to DO
and In u few minutes the crowd was reduced to the
militia and about forty armed citizens
At exactly 10 O'Clock band Of seventy five negroes
suddenly appeared marching down sMth-St, ana
they opened fire on the men collected at the jail.
At the first FIRE, Elmer Edwards, man about twenty
years Of age foil. shot through the abdomen. in
ternaI hcmorrhngc set In and he died this morning
harncssmaker by trade The fire was returned by
the militia and the armed citizens, and the negroes
beat preciptcus retreat. The militia also rerrat~
In disorder back of the courthouse where they kept
up firing until the negroes had disappeared down
the street
II Is thought that some OF the negroes are wouhn"u'
although IL Is impossible to learn the particulars.
The foil and courtroom we're filed with the militia
and armed citlzcns The negroes reiterated back to
the odd Fellows Lodge, which has been their cmet
headquarters.
|, WIS determined 10 make effort to deposc them
until morning 1t Is believed that they separated Just
before day few were taken into custody "heh
found by officers.
The cause Of the riot seems to have been oeH'l
on the par OF the ~ groes that Thomas burg'S''
ucgrpe under arrest would he ynchcd, as Charles lii
vns ynchcd for assault on Miss Lydia starr. Burg''S
Wis arrested for robbery and for proving about AZ
night. entering houses and frightening women FOR
some weeks IMPORTS have come In almost oail! Vi
women having b>cn awakened b7 n man reaching III
M the window Of their bediOJms and passing his hama
oyer fnc,s. woman aWOke 10 ma H"H
undressing IN her room. ON Friday lurEesH was ar
RS; ii and two or three women idcnlliri MN AZ ''c
PEI guilty 81 these oHtn'S -, IT,,
The police hove ARRESTED and placed In TIM cy
jail over fifty negroes who were fOuhi clIrline
arms and they guarded 10 prevent an atIempt
! 10 Nlcaso thcnl. Tn IN lrtal NOunding ot Nonhg
i ken. from breaking ont with difficulty. and an
, attcmp, to avenec his untmcy death Is almost CTR H
t:in 10 he made. Excitement rum high ana .-.p
streets are s hed with people MS. Mnth'sp'!lrI,
was seriously wounded during the night last hight
by bullet, which passed through the sue oi hcr