The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-09-29
The Mob Then Want to Bury Him In
tho Mayors Front Yard,

.. a. WICK, proprietor of the st. James
Hotel.
w. Jones, engineer Norfolk and West
err.
L. Newman, a 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 and left arm.
Will Eddy, barber boy, shot in the left
side.
Frank Mills, shot in the arm.
Il. A. Figgatt, mail carrier, shot in left
leg.
Tom Nelson, brakeman, leg badly
broken.
Leroy White, engineer, shot through
the left thigh.
@. p. North.
o. p. Taylor.
David Ruggies.
NJ. E. Spark.
Then while J. Alien Watts, Judge
Woods, and others were addressing the
crowd, Sergeant Griffin with two officers
took the negro from the Jail and spirited
him out of town. They 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
20 10 number, rushed upon them and
tho prisoner. With shouts aud yells, the
determined mon 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 tradgedy 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 tho lynch.
ing and after viewing the body Of the
dead man rendered verdict that the no.
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. It was then
hauled to Mayor Trout's residence on
Campbell avenue, it seeming to be the in i.
tention of the mob to bury it in his front
yard.
AT this critical moment Rev. w. G.
Csmpbel', Presbyterian lnin ster, ap-
pearei upon the scene and told the mob
that such procedure would never do. He
spoke kindly to them and at last dissuad-
ed them from carrying out their plan.
The BODY during TINS tim, nsd not been
removed from the cart, SO at the sug-
gestion by som, one in tie crowd, they
took it over to the edge of the river to
burn it. Fences were torn down and
some one with an axe cut down several
cedar trees near by. The dry wood was
laid in big pile, but arranged so it would
burn freely aud on thi, heap the negro's
body laid. On top of all, the cedar
boughs wero thrown aud then, just be
fore touching the match to it, two gal
Ions OF coal oil were poured on the dry
wood. The match was touched to 1t aud
the flames from the burning oil sho; rap.
idly up.
1t was not long before the crowd dis
Ipersed, but all the morning men and
sometimes an occasional woman, were
soon going towards the place Of burnipe
10 squads Of three aud fye. Every on,
that went, seemed to wish to contribute
taaERethMipg& ~ & e the hl z, by throwing I
and tbsr. pD was lew ashes and b.-.
- 'ne'' bon but the fire. was aup a.,', as,s
@ burning aercely and thos. ...,a, ''
was a nus SAD that II should burn tin tbsrs
Mrs Bishop. '''e 'ssa'lant Of
bv a ~. a';a.,, sne shooting Of some Of the moh
sS - ua' o'll'tia last night, the mob sem.nS lam So
hs., = 'pe person Of Mayor Trout, "n hu. :.
friends ,smoved "aas to the country by his
ch.raa = Acting Mayor Buckner is % ,n
,a.n a's0 % the city governmen. and h., ~ /
,e.p, ,naea "s,a, Chief Of Police Terry. sor'
'''''' and Officer Moaorlis,' pend md