Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-25

ed, surrounded the building. and with
huge improvised battering rams bat
tered the doors in rapid succession.
The troops were fastened together in
the courthouse at all entrances. The
doors were barricaded from within
and furniture piled against them.
The soldiers stood with pieces cooked
and bayonets fixed, and waited till the
doors would yield. Huge stones were
thrown against the doors, and the
noise was deafening. All the time
loud and angry yells came from the
crowd. Col. Colt went into the crowd
and said: eff any man of you hits one
of my men 1 will direct him to aim di-
rectly at that mans heart"
At 7:45 an alarm of fire startled the
crowd and great many of them left.
The barn attached to the Cherry house
burned, but the fire was not over when
the crowd came back and renewed The
attack. Gel. Colt received word tLat
the First regiment and two companies
from Columbus were on the way.
At 1855 the south doors were broken,
and Immediately there was a deafen-
ing and continuous volley from two
score of muskets. A pandemonium of
yells and curses and a dense smoke
filed the corridors, the law had been
maintained at frightful cost, for this
was the list of the dead and wounded.
Killed: Smith Walch, aged 10.
Jesse Judy, aged a5.
q. w. johnson, aged %.
Wounded: Mack Johnson, Of viii.
liamsburg, Clermont county, shot
through the bowels, will die; Hugh
zimmerman, shot through hips, dan
gerous; T. L. Nitterhouse, shot
through both ankles, one foot almost
severed; Rial PARROT, shot in foot;
John McCune. shot in leg; John Korn,
shot in foot; Emert Ellis, thumb shot
off; George Heating, IA years of age,
shot in both legs and groin; William
Sans, fatally shot through the bow
els; Frank Smith. flesh wound in face.
Peace enforced by this flow of blood,
the crowd drew back. and a dead ST.
lence followed the order of Maj. Speaks
to cease firing. There was a long and
ominous silence, and it was reported
that the men had visited all the stores
in search of dynamite, and, failing to
secure it, had gone to powder mill two
miles away. Col. Colt stationed his
men outside the building, guarding the
approaches, for the courtyard was
cleared and only from across the
streets came the excavations of the
rioters.
Hundreds of men congregated at the
southwest corner of Court square and
6iSa1tSSa1 no
tones, except that from the men of
temper came angry cries. The United
Press correspondent was virtually i'm
prisoned in the sheri ifs Office in room
adjoining the one in which the pris-
oner was guarded during this siege,
and stood behind the troops while the
firing was in progress. Dolby's unrest
was pitiful. His face ISSUED an ashen
hue, and he quaked with fear to such
a degree that he could hardly utter a
word. Col. Colt and Maj. Speaks JUS
titled the firing as the only solution of
the trouble after the mob had broken
down the doors.
At $50 an order was issued to clear
the streets, and for time everything
was quiet, while the citizens discussed
the deplorable sacrifice.
The regular train. which was held
more than an hour this morning for
the use of the Columbus contingent of
the Fourteenth regiment, left that city
at SIP and arrived at this station at
$50. There were on board Company
c, Capt. Barker; Company b, Lieut..
Oyler; the hospital corps and surgeons
and representatives of the press.
There were but slight indications of
the late presence of determined mob,
but many people were on the streets.
Maj. Cook, to justify his action in
calling upon the state to assist in re-
storing order, asserted that he had
been credibly informed that a crowd
approximating 600 had left their homes
at midnight and come on horseback
and in conveyances to the borders OF
the town, where they were waiting for
a call which should mass them into a
single body. 1t was his purpose to
spirit the victim of the citizens anger
away at the dead of night, but he
friends of the estima BILE young lady
who had been so cruelty assaulted.
The Crowd Waiting and the Troops Gath.
ering.
WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, O., Oct. 10.
AT 1:30 a. m. the streets are filed
with men congregated in knots at the
corners. But there is no actual vio-
lence. Col. Colt has stationed his
troops at the windows of the court
house, which is darkened to divert the
possible attack of the rioters. The
mob keeps at a respectful distance,
and, except an occasional imprecation,
there are no taunts. These groups
roundly denounce the militia, and call
their action foul murder. The affair is
only under temporary subsection. The
feeling of the crowd continues as it be-
gan. but their hope If success is weak
ened by the terrible repulse.
Col. Colt has received kilograms an
nouncing that tie First regiment is on
the way, and the two remaining CO.
lumbus and the Mount Sterling COM
panies of the Fourteenth regiment are
lying at Mount Sterling waiting for
the First, the object being to
bring both regiments in at the
same time. They are due here at
2 o'clock. Many restaurants and
idling places are kept open for the con-
venience of the crowd, and it is boldly
asserted that it's strength has not
diminished, but has merely separated
in order to evade suspicion.
A BIG DEMONSTRATION
OF Idle weavers in the Principal Streets of
Fall River, Mass.