Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-06
Rang Out From the Threats of
Six Hundred Men
AS THE BASTlLE WAS STORMEO.
Seveny-Flye Determined Officers Headed by
Hero Sheriff Greeted Them
win Hell Of Fire and a Rain Of Bullets.
twenty Of he Lynchers Fell, but They
Came Again Tho Sheriff and
His Msn Wiped Out.

New York. Jan ga special from Ma
rion, n. g., regarding the Bakersville
riot says:
The attack was expected oil day Tues
day Mountainous from Mitchell. Me-
Dowcll and Yancey counties were assem-
bling In the little mountain hamlet until
the population Of 500 was doubled. At 4
o'clock in the afternoon formal demand
was made upon the sheriff for Snipes aud
the two Whitsops by a messenger from
tie mob, who approached the jail under n
, =, Of truce. To this the brave garrison
3, C>,. led.
u.s. win die first"
y u. company was split into three
pn|$ LI.rH. pining In the jail. the other
two y. 20 che sherif's house and
barn au. % the main building, Win
chesters " loaded aud they wnitcd for
the final struggle TO begin. They were
not long in suspense The night would
be bright with moonlight. and It was use
less for the mob to wait for darkness
About sun down the attack was made.
AZ least 800 armed men marched solidly
mp the road, aud then with a howl broke
in a run for the jail. The garrison was
ready for them.
Halt or / win give orders to fire."
rang out Sheriff Momaws voice. but no
attention was paid to IT,
"Birc, rang out the order, and seventy
FIVE rifles bclchcd their deadly contents
into the lynchers
They wayered a moment as score Of
them went down, but with the stcadiness
Of Veterans, closed up their ranks and
rushed forward again under the leader
ship Of gigantic mountainccr, who urg-
ed them forward with the old rebel yell.
Again the rifles of the besciged rang
out and this time were answered by
concentrated fire from the mob Their
aim was deadly Every window In the
exposed side Of the building occupied By
the defenders was shot out, and dozen
men fol- wounded or killed Their bodies
hampored the deputies who were unharm-
cd, and only few could close mp to the
windows aud return the Ere before the
mob was upon them.
There was a short struggle, but few
revolver shots and hundreds of dubbed
rifles, and al was over The deputies
with their leader Sheriff Momaw, NOR
tally wounded were in the hands Of the
mob, and every one Of them was look
ing down the muzzle OF at least three
Winchcstcrs
Without waiting to pick up their dead
or care for the wounded, the mob made
a rush at the door Of the jail and the
prisoners were reached. Half dead with
fear they were dragged out into the open
air, where ropes were placed around their
necks, and with hundreds of men mad
with the thirst for gore at the end OF
each they were dragged over the ice COW
cred rocks TO a piece of land half q mile
away. Behind them followed the rest of
the mob, firing at the PROSTATE forms
every minute. The victims were undoubt-
eddy dead before they had been dragged
twenty yards and il was the mere sem
blancc Of human forms that were strung
mp when the woods were reached Then
the mob returned 10 look for their dead
and wounded
In a little enclosure and on a hard-road
bed in front of the jail, twenty-five bodies
were found, and In the three buildings
eight more were dead. About thirty were
injured, some Of them fatally
Sheriff Monaw was shot twice through
the chest and three times through the alb
domen.