The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26

! escaped but was detected, from the
description given by Mrs. Bishop.
boarding an out going train, A colored
man jumped on the a and grabbing
the criminal the twOf fell to the ground.
A crowd Immediately surrounded the
prisoner and threats of lynchipg were
loud and frequent. Detective w W.
Bald win seized the man and holding
the crowd at bay with his revolver,
started on horseback with the fright
ened negro behind him. He rode to
the saloon where the woman had been
removed and she positively identified
him. He was then taken to jail. A
crowd gathered around the jail and
kept increasing as night approached
At 5 o'clock the Roanoke Light In
fantry marched to the jail by order of
Mayor Trout. Guards were posted and
the streets in the immediate vicinity
cleared. About dark the crowd was
increased by a hundred men from the
vicinity of the woman's home, headed
by Mrs. Bishops son, a fireman on the
Norfolk & Western Railroad.
At 8 O'Clock a portion of the mob
battered at a side door Of the Jail where
the militia and Mayor Trout had re
tired. The shooting was commenced
by the mob and the mayor shot in the
foot. The militia were then ordered
to return the fire and a volley from
about % rifles waspoured into the mob.
1t is thought that about five men were
killed by this fire and as many more
w FUNDED, some of them fatally. Dur
ing the excitement caused By the vol
ley, the negro was taken from the Jail
by an officer and secreted. The dead
and wounded were removed to a drug
store and to the offices Of near by DhV-
sicians.
The militia then dispersed and left
the scene as quietly as possibly.
The following is a list of the dead
and injured as far as known at present:
Dead: S A. Wick, hotel proprietor;
Will Sheets, fireman on the N. 81 ".
r. r ; Chas. Whitemyer, conductor on
the n. & w. r R j. B Tyler, of Blue
Ridge; George White, sho5 throughle
and bled to death; w. Jones, engineer
on the N. 6 W. r. r 4; John Mills, dis
tiller, Back Creek.
Injured: George Settles, Of VintOn;
mortally wounded; Otto Falls, shot
through the body and will die; Will
Eddie, shot through the groin; George
0. Monroe, shot In the head; Frank
Mills, shot in the arm; Tom Nelson, leg
shot off; Leroy White, shot in the
neck; J. B. McGhee, shot in the leg;
one Shepard, shot in the leg; E, J.,
Small, shot in the abdomen; Charles
Powell, shot through the body.
ROANOKE, Va, Sept. 2L.-Robert
Smith, the negro who so brutally as
sauited Mrs. Henry Bish p yesterday,
and to ave whose life u number Of
| citizens we're shot down, paid a hor.
rible penalty for his devilish crime
shortly before 5 o'clock this morning.
While J., Allen 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
towards 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 Frank
lin road, near Tenth avenue, a squad
| Of men, about twenty in number,
rushed upon them and took the pris-
Oner. With shouts and yells, the de.
termined men rushed the negro to the,
nearest tree. He was hanged to a
hickory limb and his body riddIed
with bullets and horribly maugIed. 1t
was all over by 5 o'clock and the small
body Of men, who had done their work
we'll, had dispersed. With the break
of day crowds of people begant to throng
the streets leading to the scene of the
latest tragedy in this terrible drama.
The sight was horrible to behold.
Dangling at the end Of a small hemp
rope was the dead body Of the negro.
His face was bloody, distorted and
swollen. A load of shot had been fired
into his back, literally tearing his coat
to pieces. The job was we'll executed.
The rope was tied in regulation hang
mans knot and the Negroes feet were
we'll above the ground. Coroner Gray
and a jury repaired early to the scene
of the lynching, and after viewing the
body of the dead man rendered a YER
dict that the negro came to his death
at the hands of persons unknown to
them. After the inquest the officers
we're ordered to take charge of the
body, but the surging mas of aveng-
ing men which had by this time assem-
bled would not let them touch him. A
coal cart passing nea by WIGS pressed
into service and the body thrown into
it. It was then hauled to Mayor Trout's
residence, on Campbell Avanne, it
seeming to be the intention Of the mob
to bury it in his front yard. At this
critical moment Rev. W. G. Campbell
appeared upon the scene and told the.
mob that such procedure would never
do. He spoke kindly to them, and at
last dissuaded them from carrying out
their plar. The body during this time
had not been removed from the cart.
so at the suggestion of some one in the
crowd, they took it over to the edge of
the river to burn it. Fences were torn
down, store boxes taken and some II
with an axe cut down several cedar
trees near by. The dry wood was laid
in a large pile, but arranged so it would