The Portland daily press., 1894-12-06
TRIED TO BLOW UP A COLLEGE
Masked Men Seize Two White Students at
Berea and Tie Them Near Llsh'eo
Bomb.

Berea, KY, December 5-'rhe recent White
Cap outrages, which have kept the people
of this locality III tern or for the last rev
months, eliminated last night In an at
tempt to blow up Berea college with ayna-
mite. The college is a four story prlcK
structure and has regular attendance Vi
about four hundred students OF both sexes
and cUlors, more than half of whom are
from the North.
The school has been an object of perseca-
ton for some years by persons who have
never taken kindly to the abolitionist idea
of educating the white and colored races to-
gether, and last nights work may be
climax of the feeling. The college authori-
ties ignore such an idea, believing it was
the act of some miscrants whose sole OBJ
ject was wanton destruction of life and
property. ". D. Candee and Walter Ly-
man, two white students, were sitting In
their room on the lower floor, at about
eleven o'clock last night. They had Just
finished studying and were preparing to re-
tire, when footsteps were heard In the nall
followed a few minutes later by KNOCK at
the door. Thinking it was only fellow
students, Lyman opened the door, when he
was suddenly seized by masked men and
dragged into the entry. Three other
maranders pounced upon Candee. who. after
a brief struggle, was overpowered, gagged
and, like his companion, handcufed. Ii
was all done SO quickly and aroltly that
not even students across ball were
awakened. The desperadoes then led the
captives out into tine open court.
GAGGED AND TIED TO A TREE.
FOR Gods sake, what does this mean?"
asked Lyman, who had been admonished at
the point of pistol not to make an cutlery.
Never mind.' said one desperate, I'VE
will show you quicker than we can tell You.
If your light hadn't been burning we
wouldn't hay disturbed you"
A few steps south of tie building the
desperadoes stopped with their captIVas.
and whispered consultation was held "
the men. A rope was then procured, "nd
| Lyman was gagged and tied to tree,
| while his companion, Candee, was I'D
around in the rear of the building. near thf
kitchen entrance Here the leader Fro
| duced dynamite bomb and ordered *
| frightened man to touch it off or he woliia
| be touched off. This he refused to do
| whereupon one of the scoundrels told liiH
that he would be blown to atoms.
| He was then fastened more securely ans
| laid on the woodstock, near the entrance
| The dynamite bomb was then lighted sa4f
| thrown into the entrance, after which tht
| miscreants fed hastily from the grounds
| Seeing that death stared him, as well ~
several hundred others in the building IL
| the face Candee resolved to make on
| desperate effort to release himself.
| He succeeded in twisting his hands clean
| and rolling down off the wood stack h
| rushed to where The fuse Of the bomb wa:
| fzzlng away. A rain water barrel WE
| standing near and into this he plunged h.
| deadly explosive extiL gushing it. Fearin
| to call lest his !ornientoIs should hear llf
! he crept cautiously along and awakened III
| janitor who went with him and release
| Lyma from the tree to which he had bee
| bound. A se1rch of the premises result e.
| in the discovery of two large dYnalnit
bombs one in the barrel and the other nea
the woodstock where the misoreants evi
| IDENTIFY dropped ii in their fight. An o..
hat belonging presumably to one of the me
| was also found.
POSSE STARTED IN PURSUIT.
Sheriff Patton was at once notified and
! posse of citizens and college students wa
| organized ana started on the trail OF u
| miscreants who were tracked about tw
miles out of the town in the direction o
Boone's Gap where owing to the heavy rail-
and the thickness of the brush the trail VA
lost. Detec tives Pasco and Woodward hay
been engaged by the. town and colles
authorities to ferret out the case and wit
the hat for a clew these officers think he
will be able to locate the perpetrators. i