The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-09-29

w. Jones, engineer Norfolk and West
ern.
T. Newman, railroad man.
George Settles, base ball player.
Emmett J. Small.
w. e. Hall.
George White.
John Mills, distillsr. ~-t" -
The following were seriously hurt:
Otto Falls Of machine works, shot
through hi, body aud left arm.
Will Eddy, barber boy, shot in the left
side.
Frank Mills, shot in tho arm.
r. A. Figgatt, mail carrier, shot in left
leg.
Tom Nelson, brakeman, leg badly
broken.
Leroy White, engineer, shot through
the left thigh.
g. p. North.
o. P. Taylor.
David Ruggies.
M. E. Spark.
1ucu "hilC y. al eu WdI's, JuuSc
Woods, and others were addressing the
crowd, Sergeant Griffin with two officers
took the negro from the Jail and spirited
him out of town. Whey carried him
across the river into the woods but to-
wards daylight they were notified that
squads of men were securing the entire
adjacent country. They thought it best
to bring their prisoner back to town and
place him in Jail. They were proceeding
to the Jail and on franklin road, near
Tenth avanue, a squad of men about
90 10 number, rushed upon them and
tho prisoner. With shouts aud yells, the
determined men rushed the negro to he
nearest tree. He was hanged to hick-
ory limb and his body riddled with bull
lets and horribly mangled, and the small
body Of men who did the work dispersed.
With the break of day crowds Of people
began to throng the streets leading to
the scene ofithe latest tradsedy in this ter
rible drama. The negro's face was bloody
and swollen. A load of shot had been
fred into his back, literally tearing his
coat to pieces. Corsner Gray and jury
repaired early to the scene of the lynch.
ing and after viewing the body Of the
dead man rendered verdict that the ne.
| gro came to death at the hands of per-
sons unknown to them.
After the inquest the officers were Or
dered to take charge of the body, but the
surging mass of avenging men which
had by this time assembled would not let
them touch him. A coal cart passing
near by was pressed into service, and the
body was thrown into it. 1t was then
hauled 10 mayor Trout's residence on
Campbell avenue, it seeming to be the in
tention of the mob to bury it in his front
yard.
At this critical moment Rev. w. G.
Campbell, a Presbyterian lmin ster, ap
; pearci upon the scene and told the mob
! that such procedure would never do. he
A spoke kindly to them and at last dissuad
9 ed them from carrying out their plan
r The BODY during trls umt mai not been
removed from the cart, SO at the sug
gestion by SOM one in the crowd, the.
= took it over to the edge of the river t.
, burn it. Fences were torn down ant
some one with an axe cut down severa
cedar trees near by. The dry wood wa
laid in big pile, but arranged so it wcul'
burn freely and on this heap the negro
body laid. On top of all, the ceda
Y boughs wero thrown aud then, just b.
d fore touching the match to it, two ga
Ions of coal oil were poured on the DIR
!, wood. The match was touched to it an
- the flames from the buraing oil shoi rap
Ia idly up.
:, 1t was not long before the crowd di'
persed, but all the morning men an
sometimes an occasional woman, wei
y, soon going towards the place of burnip
in squads Of three and five. Every oil
~ that went, seemed to wish to contribu
}. a"melhipGh Gh588b 558 the M.,t II z, by throwing
r. ana there bon yn, Wv asne' and heI
bur,; '"' the fire was st
b a,a n.ns hercely and those ..,.s'
= ''und said that I. shou;d hnr. ..,' a"s'h ',
s was was not vestig, left of tho - .,ii ther
MRS Bishop. ' 'SSa'lant o
BY M tha r,.1., tne shooting of some Of the no,
~ ~. ,"e militia last ight, the moh da1, o 'no'
had he hea'' person of Mayor Trout '"p bn. H.
IfrieDJs dee" removed to the courtrv M bv his nc
| oha nFnaS' Acting Mayor Buckno. ~ ~ MS
sa an"rgo Of the city government ona IS IN
suspended Chief of Police ~ To ana has
''"' aud Officer McMorfis, pend.