The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-21
BIG REVENUE RAID.
Deputy Collector Blaiock Invades the
Mountains, Finds Blockaders Thick as
Hops and Stirs Hornets Nest.
1GreerviIle News. 18th. I


Special Collector L. w. c. BlalocE
and a force of deputies returned here
Yesterday after one ofthe biggest, mos
Successful and most exciting raids II
tn. history Of the revenue service. The
force consisted of Mr.. BIalock and
Deputies l.. G. Bagwell, of North Caro-
lima. A!ouzo Greer, A. a. Phillips
James Phillips, NJ. K. Hightower and
Johr Keenan,. They left here Monday
and struck for the mountains along
the Pickens and Greenvile line. They
found and cut up blockade distillery
that afternoon. They secuted a'ounc
until after midnight, when they ar
rived at Squire Goodwin's place IN the
Lima section.
Tuesday morning the party started
out for the Dark Corner Of this coun-
~. They ran on five blockade distil-
leries within half mile. But by the
time they got in the Dark Corner'
bells rang, rifles fired and shouts re-
sounded. The result was that every
still visited was found desolate. Ten
or twelve hundred gallons of beer and
mash were destroyed but the warning
given bad been sufficient and every
still was torn out before the revenue
men arrived. They found mash tubs,
beer and the traces Of stills, but no
stills. Consequently, they destroyed
beer and mash tubs but no stills.
They bad, however, experiences of
the Dark Corner. They were fired on.
From the bills above the ravines iu
which the blockade distillerios lurked
came showers of bullets from hidden
foes. Deputy Collector BIalock be-
haved himself like a veteran and
proved himself to be man who would
stand fire. He was cool, courageous,
calcu latipg through all this trying time
in the Dark Corner. He commanded his
men 10 lie down, but stood himself,
while rifle and pistol bullets ~histled
about him and the twigs and limbs all
around were clipped by the singing
messengers of death. He proved him
self man in the judgment of all his
sdbor6inates, and stood to the rack to
the very last.
The raiders arrested every man and
boy they could find as measure Of
protection and kept the prisoners with
them until they got out.
The Dark Corner boys showed their
usual discretion and refused to take
any risks Of hurting any Of their own
people. The truth is-as The Green
Vile News is informed-the whole
shooting was a mistake. The Dark
Corner people are law abiding in their
way aud do not resist the sheriff
CT the regular raiding deputy. This
time they got the notion that some
kind of an extra man had been rung in
on them. Therefore they shot and stood
the return fire Of Deputy Collector
Blalock's crowd. The new man is
only 3 deputy and the raid was made
by the regular deputy collector.
HEHAS A BAD FALL.
The following special is from Green
Vile. The many friends of Maj. Bla-
lock in Newberry are panied to hear
of his misfortune and hope soon to
learn of his entire recovery:
While on a raid in the upper part OF
Spartanburg County last night Deputy
Collector Blalock, having surrounded
with his force large blockaS5tsa tarid dis d
tillery and captured -i~eou TO q con
wereas, "DETAILS of his plans to farm an
.Rg. ,ren Who q,
'uu jperating it, advanced to take ~ ~
session. He was blinded by the al A
bit from the fire and stepped over W
IF aho;,t twelve feet high, at the "