The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-21

Nine Killed and Mayor Trout Among
the Number Wounded.


Into Insensibility and Robs Her of
Money-He is Arrested and Jailed,
Where the Mayor, With the Military,
Protect Hirn-Many Thousands Gath
er, and Several Fire Into the Prison.
A Voney From the Soldiers is Re-
turned-Great Excitement, and Other
Trouble Probable.
Roanoke, Va, Sept. 20-Ono Of the
most dastardly crimes in the history of
the city occurred at about 10 o'clock this
morning. Mrs. Henry S. Bishop, aged
about 80 years, and a respectable white
woman from Cloverdale, eight miles from
this city, was enticed by a negro named
Thomas Smith from the market, where
she had come to sell produce, into an
empty saloon basement, where he beat
her into insensibility and robbed her of
her pocketbook, containing less than 81
The woman was left for dead, but man
aged to revive a few moments later and
crawled up to the street, where she told
her story.
THE BRUTE CAPTURED.
The fiend had in the meantime escaped,
but was detected from the description
given by Mrs. Bishop, boardingan outgoing
train. A colored man jumped on the car
and grabbing the criminal, the two fell
to the ground A crowd Immediately
surrounded the prisoner, and threats Of
lyncniug were loud and frequent. De
toctive Capt w. w. Baldwin seized the
man and. holding the crowd at bay with
his revolver, started on horseback with
the frightened negro behind him He
rode to the saloon, where the wounded
woman was removed, and she positively
identified him. He was then taken to
jail.
CROWDS ABOUT THE JAIL.
A crowd gathered around the jail, and
increased as night approached. AT
O'Clock the Roanoke Light Infantry
marched to the Jail, by order of Mayor
Trout. The guards were posted and the
streets in the immediate vicinity cleared.
About dark the crowd was increased bya
hundred men from the vicinity of the
womaus home, headed by Mrs Bishops
son, d fireman on the Norfolk and West
ern railroad. At O'Clock portion of the
mob battered at q side door OF the Jail,
where The militia and Mayor Trout mad
retired.
MOB FIRE INTO THE JAIL.
The shooting was commenced by the
mob, and tho mayor was shot in the foot
The militia We're then ordered to return
the fire, and a volley from about twenty
five rifles was poured into the mob. 1t is
thought about five men were killed by
this fire and as mang more wounded
some OF them fatally
During the excitement caused by the
vOley the negro was taken from the jail
by an officer and secreted.
DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The dead and wounded were removed
a
physicians. The militia were then dis
persed, ana left the scene as quietly as
possible,
ANOTHER DISPATCH.
Roanoke, Va, Sept. 20.-The excite
mcnt here over the attempt 10 get out the
negro Smith who made murderous7 at
tack upon Mrs Bishop this morning
reached a climax at o'clock tonight,
when the first shots were fired.
The mob OF 4 900 people battered at the
Jail and demanded admittance. On re-
fusal they forced into the jail where
Mayor Trout and the militia were. Mayor
tia then retaliatcd, killing two people and
wounding several others. The mob is
now preparing for second attack.
SHOT BY THE MILITARY.
The following is a list Of dead and in
jured as far as known at present:
DEAD.
A. S. Wick. hotel proprietor
WIN Sheets, fireman on the Norfolk
and Western railroad
Chas. Whitmcger, conductor on Nor
fork and Western railroad.
j. B. Tyler OF Blue Ridge.
Geo White shot through leg and bled
to death.
W. Jones, engiuecr on the Norfolk and
Western railroad
john Mills, distiiler, Black creek.
Emmett j. Small, Northwest Roanoke
Geo K. White, fireman on the Norfolk
and Western railroad.
INJURED.
George Settles of Vinton, mortally
wounded
Ooto Falls, shot through body and will
die.
VIII Eddie shot through groin.
George O. Monroe, shOt in the head.
Frank Mills shot in arms.
Tom Nelson, leg shot off
Leroy White. shot in back.
j. b. McGhee, shot in leg.
Shepard, shot in leg
+. j. Small shot in abdOmen.
Charles Powell, shot through body
j. II. Campbell
Edgar Whaling.
c. w. tiggatte.
c. II. North.
O. B'Taylor.
- Hall
David Roggles.
N. e. Sparks.
T. +. Nelms
The excitement has not yet subsidized
THE MAD CROWD ADDRESSED.
Roanoke, Va, Sept. 2O-Several
speeches were made after the militia re-
tired, and Judge Woods, of the Hastings
court, assured the mob that the negro
had been removed from the jail, and ac-
companied two of the crowd through the
Jail to prove the truth Of his statement.
His statement and the speech Of j. Allen
Watts, the democratic candidate for the
state Senate, did much to pacify the
crowd. But they hung around the Jail
and adjacent streets for several hours
afterwards, many dispensing to search for
the secreted prisoner.
QUIET AT MIDNIGHT.
At midnight the scene had quieted
down and no further trouble is expected.
The militia remain under the mayors
orders, although it is probable that they
will not be called out again. Mayor Trout
is firm in the position he has assumed,
and declares that he viii uphold the laws
The dead, which at midnight had increas-
cd by the death Of George Settles, were
moved to the undertaking establishment Is
and will be prepared for burial