The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-21
ALYNCHINGP PREVENTED
Riotous Virginians Fired Upon by
a Military Company.
NINE KILLED, NINETEEN WOUNDED.

The Mayor was shot Before Giving the
order to Fire-The Prisoner, Negro,
Had Assaulted and Robbed white
woman-one Of the Injured win Die.
ROANOKE, Va. Sept 2l-Robert Smith,
q negro yesterday assaulted and nearly |
killed Mrs Henry Bishop, wife OF a Well |
to-do farmer of Botetourt county Mrs. |
Bishop was at the market with load OF |
produce, and Smith bought box OF !
grapes He asked her to go with him TO
yet the money, and taking her TO house
near by locked the door and bound her
Then drawing "a razor he demanded her
money She gave it up, and while doing
so ierked the razor from his hand The
negro choked her, threw her down and
pounded her head with a brick, leaving
her for dead Mrs Bishop shortly after
wards regained consciousness, and return
( ing to the market told of the outrage.
[ Detective Baldwin soon arrested the
negro An excited crowd attempted to
take Smith away from the officer and
+ lynch him, but Baldwin, with the prisoner
ON a horse, dashed at full speed in the
face of the crowd and soon had him be
hind the bars An immense crowd re
mained at the Jail for a long time but
were finally persuaded by the mayor to
disperse.
Soon afterward, however a crowd gath
cred around the jail and kept increasing
as night approached. At o'clock the
Roanoke light infantry marched to the
Jail by orders of Mayor Trout. Guards
were posted and the streets i'm the imme-
diate vicinity cleared. About dark the
crowd was increased by a hundred men
, ,yi. Of Tho Nnnnu'g home.
headed by Mrs Bishops son, a fireman on
the Norfolk and Western railroad.
Ats O'Clock portions of the mob bat
tered at a side door of the Jail, where the
militia and Mayor Trout had retired. Then
shooting was commenced by the mob, and
the mayor was shot in the foot. The
militia were then ordered to return the
fire, and a volley from about twenty-five
rifles was poured into the mob. Nine
men were killed and nineteen wounded
one Of them fatally During the excite
ment caused by the volley the negro wa'
taken from the Jail by an officer ant
secreted. The dead and wounded were re
moved to a drug store and to the offices OF
nearby physicians. TIE militia were ther
dispersed, and left the scene as quietly a.
possible.
The following is list o. the dead and
injured:
kii!ea-S. A. Wick, hotel proprietor
, William Sheetz, railroad fireman; Charlie!
w. Whitmire, railroad conductor; j. B
Tyler, of Blue Ridge; George White, sho
through the leg and bled to death; w
Jones, railroad engineer; John Mills, dis
tiller, Black Creek; George Settles, of Vim
ton; Emmett j. Small, of West Roanoke
The injured are: Otto Fa, IS shot through
the body, and will die; VIII Eddie sho
through groin; George o. Monroe, shot il
head; Frank Mills, shot in arm; Tom Mel
son, leg Off Leroy White, shot in back
]. b. McGhee, shot in leg; - Shepard
shot in leg; +. J. Small, shot in abdomen
Charles Powell, shot through the body.
Those less seriously injured are: j. H
Campbell, Edgar Wahling, c. w Figgatt
c. 2. North, O. b. Taylor, - Hail. DayiC
Ruggles, n. E. Sparks and r. E. Nelms.
Mayor Trout is firm inf the position h
has assumed, and declares that he will up
hold the law