The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-22
ROANOKE ATA MOB'S MERCY
Mayor Trout and the Militia Captain
Flee the City for Safety.

died With Bullets and Then Burned
to Crisp-The Body Labeled "Th1s
is Mayor Trout's Friend"-Intense
Feeling Against the Mayor and Mill
tary for Wednesday Nights slaugh-
ter-Threat to Apply the Torch in
Retaliation-The Streets Thronged
With Excited Men-Latest from the
Scene.
Roanoke, Va, Sept. GA squad of
twenty men took the negro Smith from
three policemen just before 5 O'Clock this
morning aud hanged him to hickory
limb on Ninth avenue, southwest, in the
residence section of the city. They rid
died the body with bullets and left
placard on his body reading: This is
Mayor Trout's friend" A coroner's jury
of business men was summoned and they
viewed the body of the negro and rem
dered verdict of death at the hands of
unknown men,"
THRoNGs AT THE SCENE.
Thousands of people visited the scene
of the lynching between daylight and s 30
O'Clock, when the body was cut down. At
ter the jury had completed their work, the
body was placed in the hands of officers,
who were unable to keep back the mob.
Three hundred men tried to drag the
body through the streets of the town, but
Rev. DIR. Campbell of the First Presbyte-
rian church and Capt. Moorman, with
pleas and main strength prevented them.
Capt Norman hired wagon and mad
the body put in it. 1t was then conveyed
to the bank of the Roanoke, about one
mile from the scene of the lynching.
THE MOB SEXES THE BODY.
The dead negro was dragged from the
wagon by rope about 200 yards and
burned on a pile of dry lumber. The
body was placed upon this heap and more
brushwood piled upon it, leaving only the
head bare. The whole was then satu-
rated with coal oil and a match applied
The body was consumed within an hour.
The cremation was witnessed by several
thousand people. The mob threatened at
one time to bury the negro in Mayor
Trout's yard. Threats of vengeance
have been openly made against the mayor
and militia for attempting to maintain
law.
| Capt, Bird, commanding the militia
has left town. Mayor Trout has also dis
appeared, and President BuclHner of the
city council is acting mayor.
The excitement is running high now.
There is talk of the citizens holding an
| Indignation meeting, and it is rumored on
the streets that threats are being made
to burn the town unless satisfaction of
some sort is rendered. Crowds throng
the streets and all public places.
An immense crowd is in front of Oakley
and Woolwine's undertakers' shops,
Were seven of the dead bodies lie The
number of dead was exaggerated by some
reports last night 1t is now found that
nine men are dead. Revised list casual
ties is as follows:
REVISED LIST OF KILLED.
S. A. Wick, proprietor of st. James
Hotel
William Sheets, fireman of Norfolk
and Western.
Charles Whitmeyer, conductor on
Norfolk and Western railroad.
J.B. Tyler, Blue Ridge, section master
on Norfolk and Western railroad.
George White, shot through the leg
and bled to death.
w. E. Hall, Norfolk and Western fire
man.
w. Jones, engineer on Norfolk and
Western.
John Mills, Back Creek, Roanoke coun-
ty farmer and distiller.
George Settles of Vinton, shot in the
head.
TwENTY-sIX WOUNDED.
o. G. Fulls, member of Friendship Fire
Company, mortally wounded.
viii Eddy shot Uhongh groin.
George o. Monroe, shot in head.
Frank Wills, shot in arm.
Thomas Nelson, leg shot off.
Leroy White, shot in back.
J. B. McGehee. shot in leg, flesh wound.
Shepard, shop in leg.
+. c.. Small, shot in stomach.
J. F. Powell, shot through body
J. E. Wayland, clerk in postofice, shot
in leg.
Geo. Deigh, clerk at Ponce de Leon
hotel flesh wound in leg.
Walter P. HUFF, knocked down and
ankle badly sprained.
Mayor H. e. Trout shot in foot,
J. II. Campbell.
Edgar Whaling.
G. W. Figgall.
C. P. North.
o. B. Taylor.
Hall.
David Ruggles,
N. E. Sparks.
T. E. Nelms.
Charlie Moten, colored.
A colored woman, name unknown, shot
in hand
William Berry shot in the leg.
The military claim that the mob was
repeatedly warned that there would be
shooting, but received these warnings
with ieers, and finally replied with vol
ley fired at Capt. Bird, who then ordered
the men to fire at the mob, which was
battering down the door of the jail
Trouble is feared, snd every effort is
being made to calm the excited crowd.
LATER DETAILS OF TUE LYNCHING.
Roanoke, Va, Sept. 21.-Robert Smith,
the negro who so brutally assaulted Mrs.
Henry Bishop yesterday, and to save
,y1noea I1fa n urm her of citizens were shot