Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-01-12
FOUGHT A BLOODY BATTLE
A Lynohing Mob Resisted by
the Officers.
AT LEAST TWENTY-FIVE KILLED
Deadly Volleys of Shots From
Both Sides.
A Mob Lynches ~ North Carolina Mur-
dereI, After Cory Conflict with the
Prison Guaris---The Prison Stormed--
List of Victims of the Fierce Fight.

List of Victims of the Fierce Fight.
BAKERsvILLE n. c., Jan. 4.-Twenty-
two men We're killed in d battle between
officers and a mob that attacked the Jail
here last night for the purpose of iynch.
ing Calvin SuipcS. who had murdered
Isaac Osborne last August.
The battle was one Of the bluoiiest in
the south since the war, armed and deter
mined men fuclng each other, one party
To Uphold the law and the other to take
the dispensatiun, OF Justice into its own
hands. For two days the mob has been
gathering and the authorities had timely
Warming of its purpose and prepared to
resist. The leaders of the mob were
known and made little effort to conceal
their identity. All Of Monday night
squads Of ~ and 80 hung round the little
buCkwuudS prison to prevent the murderer
from being spirited away On Tuesday
the sheriff warned the mob TO disperse,
promising that justice should be fully
satisfied when the trial came on. lie de-
clhred that the prisoner would be protected
until that time with all tine power of the
old North state.
A CHARGE ON TuE PRISON.
Undeterred by this counsel, the sullen
crowd grew larger and at midnight mauea
charge on the prison. Their first YOllcy
against the doors and windows was an
swered by one from the sworn deputies
inside. Several VI the rioters fell. This
intensified the excitement and anger Of
the mob, and they dashed against the
doors in body bRtteriug them down aud
crowding into the prison III solid mass
firing right and lett at the deputies who
stood their ground until II of their mum
Der had fallen before the murder0us rak-
Ing fire. So FAR as they are known the list
OF dead is rs follows:
Killed OF thU pusse--Iames y. Williams,
Robert n; Jones, Philip D. Sauna, Il.
| Elmer Johnson, William Reed, r. n.
Bcckncr, Daniel i. Richie. j. Wallace
Laws, Nathan Il. Pannell, George lIaiit-
field Tom Hall.
Dead Of the mob-John Worth, William
| Osborne, Theodore Il. Bailiif, William
| Perry, John Osborne, Phil Crowder, Jim
Vance, Win butler, Hugery Byrd owen
| Thomas, Jack Phillips.
| Several Others are believed to have been
Killed anu carried away by their friends.
| HANGED AND RlDDLED.
| The rioters finally succeeded in reaching
the man;they We're after, and while some
! were left toiuOk after the dead and wounded
| others carried him q hali-milc away to the
| wood, where he was speedily hanged and
| his body riddled. The passion for blood
| was on, and scarcely member of tho
| bluouthirsty unOrSan2ed regiment failed
to speed Il bullet into the swayng body.
| The news spread throughout the country
during the night, and all day to-day re-
! Crults to both sides have been coming in.
THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
Calvin Snpes, the lynched man, and
| Aaron Wiseman were partners in All illicit
| distillery in Mitchell county and had told
| William Osborne and Issac Osborne. two
brothers where the distlllery was situated
| William Osborne reported the distillery IL
the officials ut Bakersyille and helped them
| to destroy il. Wiseman and SnipeS sus.
pectcd Isaac Osborne as the reporter. On
the night OF August 9th, lSD2 Snipes and
Wiscman, armed with Winchester rifles
went TO tie house of Isaac Osborne and
called him up. osborne came to the daoi
and the culPrits opened fire, almost riddlinl
him with bullets.
Wlseman and Snipes were arrested bu
sufficient evidence could not be ubtainel
against WisGman and he was released
snipcs was bound TO the superior court oil
purely circumgtantial evidence. lie wa.
placed II Jail and after being confined
about two weeks confessed to the killing
in the manner related.
RALEiGHH, \. O., Jan. "a special dis
patch just received from a prominent citi
zen living in Mitchell county. TO the Dahl
thfoaicic pronuunces the report OF rio
and lynthlng at BakeTsYillc a gross canard
III lynGhing occurred the report ha
been greatly exaggerated. Many of til,
names reported among the killed are I'm
known in that ScctIOn.'
The dispatch has been read in the IIous
OF Representatives by the Speaker.
vERIFlcArloN IMPOSSIBLE.
CHATTANOOGA, TFNS., Jan. 5.-Mail run
ners have been sent ont and every methOt
been taken to obtain particulars TO yerif,
the bloud-curdling reports Of riots AM
murders near liakcrsville. y. G. From III
sources from which the reports We're origi
nally transmitted all efforts al vcriicatiul
have been met by statements that th
roads were showed up and impossible.
, is now learned that a mail learner has It's
arrived at Cranberry, y. O. from Baker,
Vile, who says he knows nothing Of an
fight there. 1t would appear from hi
statements that the story OF yesterday wa
not true.
"A FARE OF THE FIRST WATER"
CHATrANoOGA. Tenn, Jan. "a spccit
from Bakcrsyille says that the story q
the horrible killing Of several people .
, reported i'll the papers to-day is take 1
, the first water. No such occurrence hu
taken place, and the people Of that locait
are at Il loss to understand why the stor
was told.
PEOPLE TERRIBLY EXCITED.
!. JOHNSON CRY, Tenn, Jan. 5.-Parti,
, from Cranberry, coming in the mprniI
= trains say that the whole neighburRood
: terribly excited over the dreadful alTai
and that Nnipes, the murderer of Osborn
was surely lynched, and that - men We
killed in the attempt. Several others u
n said 10 have been fatally injured.