The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-09-02
SIX LIVES SACRIFICED
Horrible Dsed u BllelsIy h ths
SeQ!h
MURDER RUNNING RIOT
fifty Masked Men Ambush IN OF.
ficsr and Kill . Wagon
Load Of 0laok
Prisoners.
RUNNING RIOT
MURDER

NEMpns, Sept. i.-News comes this
morning Of the lynehing Of ak negroes
two miles west Of Miihngton villAes, on
the Chesapeake D Ohio railroad. For Q
year or moro the people OF that part Of the
country have been kept In . continual
state Of excitemsnt By the acts Of incen.
diarism. Barns and dwellings have been
burned and recently buildings on the Mill
inston fair grounds were Destroyed. Sus.
pieion pointed to Dam Hawkins, Robert
Haynes, Warner Williams. Ed Hall. John
Hayes and Graham White. Yesterday
thsy were arrested near Kerrville. In the
western part oe the county, By Deputy
Sheriff Richardson.
Later In tho day the deputy started with
bio prisoners In . wagon for Millington,
where they were 70 have . preliminary
examination. The six negroes were
chained together.
About midnight, whom the party was
nearing Millinston, II was stopped by 30
men armed with shotsuns. who killed ali
the prisoners, and then rsmountins their
horses, which wers tied near by, rode
away In the darkness. The lynchers were
not masked, but the officer, being new In
that section, recognised none Of them.
An inquest wss held this morning and
the Jury, which included two negroes,
found the prisoners had como to their
death 'at the hands Of persons unknown" !"
Tue sheriff Of the county, who enters
upon the duties Of bis once to-day, will
take the matter In hand promptly and
vigorously.
Dan Hawkins was arrested . year ago
with several others, charged with burning
barns and residences In the Ksrrville
nsighborhood. They were brought to trial
aud two were sentenced To the pent
tsntiary. They made . full confession
aud implicated Hawkins % the leader Of
the hand Of firebugs. Hawkins got . new
trial and, after spending some months in
jail. was released TOW weeks ago. Since
this the buruings have recommsnced and
the Millington neighborhood 10 well 40
Kerrville has suffered.
Deputy Sheriff Richardson was en-
ploysd to ferret out the inesndiarlss and
at length got evidence that resulted Ia the
arrest Of Hawkins and the other i've ne.
gross Hnchsd. About niehtfall ysster'
day tho officers secured . two-horss
wagon and Q white man named Tom
Atchison drove II. He loaded the pris.
onsrs into the vshicls. hsndcuffed and
chained together, and started Tor Mil.
ington.
Az thsy reached Big creek, two miles
west Of Mlllington, somebody in the
woods by the roadside called out. "Don't
try 10 Gross thsrs. the bridge 10 down.
Como this way" Richardson got down
and, taking his horses by the head, led
them into the path that opened In the d.
reetion whence the warning came. Nwaa
dark In the woods, but suddenly Richard
son saw two guns presented at his stem
aoh and stern voice aaid:
'Throw up your banda"
"What does this mean :" demanded The
oilloss.
"Nons Of your id businessr' was thu
reply. "Throw them up"
The ofleer obsyed. Then Atehison VA
oedsssd to get down and was placed
under auaRd. The negro prisoners at.
tempted 10 leap from the wagon. A vol
Icy rang out from 10 or 80 guns and the,
fell back wounded and dying. A dosen oi
tho mob lsaped into the wagon and threw
them out vollsy after vollsy was poured
Into tho struggling mass, and In few mo
msnts all was still. Hawkins head wal
almost shot from his shoulders and ths
others were horribly msnsled.
The mob after making sure that all sil
we're dead, mounted and rode away. Al
Gibson then mounted one Of the mules
and FASTENED TO Justice Mills house. some
distance away, and notified HIM Of the
slaughter. At daybreak the Justice was
at the scene Of the lynehing with jury
composed Of i've white men and two
negroes, who rendered the verdict q,
above stated.