The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-09-28
TERRIBLE RlOTIN ROANOKE.
The Eaw Maiutained at a Fearful Cost of
Life and Limb.


Life and Limb.
ROANOKE, VA, September 2O.-One
OF the most dastardly crimes in the his.
tory of the city occurred at about 10
o'clock this morning. Mrs. Henry S.
Bishop, aged aboat so years, and a re.
spectacle white woman, from Glover
dale, eight miles from this city, was ea,
ticed by negro named Thomas Smith
from the market, where she had come
TO sell produce, into an empty saloon
basement, where he beat her into in.
, SenSlolnty and robbed her Of her pock
etDook, containing less than two dol.
lars. The woman Was left for dead
but managed to revive few minutes
later and crawled up to the street.
where she told her story.
The liend had in the meantime es-
| capped, but was detected from the de.
scriptlon given by Mrs. Bishop board
ing an outgoing Grain. a colored man
Jumped on the car and grabbing the
crlmIna the two fell to the ground.
a crowd immediately surrounded the
prisoner and threats of lynching we're
loud and frequent. Detective Captain
w. w. Baldwin seized the man and,
holding the crowd at bay with his re-
Yolver, started on horseback with the
frightened negro behind him. Herode
TO the saloon where the wounded wo-
man was removed, and she positively
identified him. tie was then taken to
jail.
A crowd gathered around the iatl,
ana Kept increasing as night ap-
preached. At 5 O'clock the Roanoke
haSnC infantry marched to the Jail by
order of Mayor Trout. Guards were
posted and the streets in the 1mmedt-
aye vicinity were cleared. About dark
Cne crowd was increased by a hundred
men from the vicinity of the woman's
home headed by Mrs. Bishops son. q
fireman on the Norfolk and Western
Nailroad. At o'clock portion of the
moO battered at a side door of the iail
where the militia and Mayor Trout had
retlred. The shooting was commenced
oy the mob, and the mayor was shot in
the foot.
me militia were then ordered to re-
turn the fire, and volley from about
twenty-five rifles was poured into the
mob. 1t is thought tnat about five
men were killed 10y this fire and as
many more wounded, some of tn sm fa-
tally. During the excitement caused
oy lne Volley the negro was taken from
tne JAN Dy an oili2er and secreted. The
dead ana wounded were removed to a
drug store and to the offices of near bv
physicians. The militia were then dis
persed and left the scene as quietly as
possible
Ihe following is list of dead and in
Jured as far as known at present:
-, Dead-S. A: Wick, hotel proprietor;
VIII Sheets, fireman on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad; Charles White
meyer, conductor on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad; j. b. Tyler, of Blue
tldge; George White, shot through the
leg and bled to death; w. Jones, engin-
eer ON the Norfolk and Western Rail
road; John Mills. Back Creek; Emmett
>; Small, of North Roanoke; George 4.
Whlte, liremen on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad.
lnJured-George Settles, of Vinton,
morlaily wounded; Otto Falls. shot
through body and will die; Will Eddie,
shOt through groin; George O. Monroe.
shot IN head; Frank Mills, shot in arm:
Tom Nelson, leg shot off; LEROY White,
shot In back; j. j. McGhee, shot in leg
Shepard, shot in leg; Charles Powell,
shot through body; J. II. Campbell,
Edgar Whiting, G. w. Flggatt, g. p
North, O. Is. Taylor, - Han, David
Ruggles, y. +. Spark T. +. Elms.
Inc excitement has not yet subsidized.
SeVeral speeches were made after the |
militia retired.
Judge Woods, of the IIustings Court,
assured the mob that the negro Smith
had been removed from the iail and
accompanied two of the crow through
me jail TO prove the truth of his state.
ment. Ills statement and the speech
Of j. Allen Watts, the Democratic can
1ldate tor the State Senate, did much |
10 paclty the crowd, but they hung
around the jail and adjacent streets for |
several hours afterwards, many disper-
sing to search for the secreted prisoner. |
At midnight the scene had quieted |
down and no further trouble is expect.
ed. The militia remain under the
mayors orders, although it Is probable
tnat they will not be called out again.
Mayor Trout is firm in the position he
mas assumed, and declares that he will
upnold the laws. The dead, which at
midnight had increased by the death
OF George Settles. were removed to The
undertaking establishments and will
be prepared for burial.
TIE FIEND LYNCuED.
ROANOKE, Va, Sept. 21.-A squad of
twenty men took the negro Tom Smith
from three policemen just before )
NlpCh LnlS morning ana hanged him |
TO hickory limb on Ninth avenue.
Southwest, In the residence section of
the city. They riddled the BODY with
bullets and left placard on his body |
reading: "This is Mayor Trouts |
friend" a coroner's jury of business
men was summoned and viewed the |
body OF the negro and rendered the fol-
lowing verdict: "Death at the hands |
or unknown men," Thousands of peo-
pie visited tie scene of the lynching
between daylight and $50 o'clock when
the BODY was cut down. After the
jury had completed their work the body
was placed In the hands Of officers who
were unable to keep back the mob.
three hundred men tried to drag the
BODY through the streets of the town,
hut Rev. DR.. Campbell of the First
presbyterian Church, and Captain B.
Moorman with pleas and main strength
prevented them. Captain Moorman
hlred wagon and had the body put III
It: 1t was then conveyed to the banks
OF the Roanoke, about one mile from
.he scene of the lynching. The dead