The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-01-12
NORTH CAROLINA RIOT.
LATER INFORMATION CONFIRMS THE
ACCOUNTS PREVIOUSLY SENT OUT.
The Prisoners We're Lynched and Thirty
Men Killed, While Others are Expected
to Die From Wounds - Other
Murders in the Neighborhood.

NEW YORK, Jan. ga special from
Marion, s. c., regarding the Bakers
vile riot, says the attack was expected.
All day Tuesday the mountaineers of
Mitchell, Mellow ell and Yancey coun-
ties were assembling in the little
mountain Hamlet until the population
of 500 was doubled. AT o'clock in
the afternoon a formal demand was
made upon the sheriff for Snipes and
the two Whitsons by messenger
from the mob, who approached the
Jail under flag of truce. To this the
brave garrison responded: "No, we
will die first" The little company
was split into three parts, one
remaining in the Jail, the other two
occupying the sheriff's house and
barn adjacent to the main building.
Winchesters were loaded and the
wait for the final struggle began.
They were not long In suspense. The
night would be bright with moonlight
and it was useless for the mob to wait
About shutdown the attack was made.
At least sou armed men marched
solidly up the road and then with o
howl broke on run for the Jail. The
garrison was ready for them. "Halt,
or I will give the order to fire." rang
out Sheriff Momwaw's voice and no
attention was paid to it.
Fire ~ rang out the order and
seventy. five rifles belched their deadly
contents into the lynchers.
They wavered moment as score
went down, but the steadiness of
veterans closed up their ranks and
rushed forward again under the lead
ership of a gigantic mountaineer who
urged them forward with the old rebel
yell.
Again the rifles of the besieged
spoke and this time they were an.
swered by q concentrated fire from
the mob.
The aim was deadly. Every window
In the exposed side of the building oc-
cupied by the defenders was shot out
and dozen men fell wounded or
killed. Their bodies hampered the
deputies who were unframed and
only few could close up to the win
dows and return the volley before the
mob was upon them.
There was short struggle, q few
revolver shots and hundred dubbed
rifles and all was over. The deputies,
with their leader, the sheriff, NOR
tally wounded, were in the hands OF
the mob, and every one of them was
l. ~, 4 hn In Of of at
three Winchesters. Without waiting
to pick up the dead or care for the
wounded, the mob made rush at the
door of the Jail and the prisoners were
reached half dead with fright
and were dragged into the open
air, when ropes were placed around
their necks. and with hundred men
mad with thirst for gore at the end of
each they were dragged over the ice
covered rocks to piece OF land half q
mile away. Behind thum followed
the rest of the mob, firing at the pros
trate forms every minute. The VIC
Tins were undoubtedly dead before
they had been dragged twenty yards,
and it was the mere semblance of hu.
man forms that were strung up when
the woods we're reached.
Then the mob returned to look for
the dead and wounded. In little
enclosure and on the hard road bed IN
front of the jail twenty five bodies
were found and in the three buildings
eight more were dead. About thirty
we're injured, some of them fatally.
sheriff Moomwaw was shot twice
through the chest and three times
through the abdomen.
NO FURTHER NEWS.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn, Jan. g.
might report 1t is almost impossi-
BILE to get trustworthy information
from Bakersville concerning the riot.
Parties from CRAM berry, coming on
morning trains say the whole neigh
bOrhood is terribly excited over the
dreadful affair, and that Snipes, the
murderer of Osborne, was surely
lynched and twenty-five men were
killt d in the attempt. Several others
are said to be fatally injured. The
mob is now said to be searchii g the
country for Aaron Wiseman, also inn
plicated in the murder of Osborne but
acquitted on account of insufficient
evidence. A report is also current
that an attempt will be made to lynch
the Whitson brothers, who are closely
guarded and under sentence to be
hanged. Efforts to open commnnica-
ton with Pakersville, N. c., thus far
have been unavailing. Reports from
Cranberry, N c., the nearest railroad
station, confirm the statement that
snow in that section of the county Ia
deeper than known in years. 1t has
been showing constantly for five days
and has as yet not stopped. Snow is
now 20 to "a inches deep and many
houses have fallen in and several
miners have received slight injuries.
Old citizens say this snow equals that
of 1868 when go many lives were lost.