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

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| The Defeated Mob at Washington Court
| house. o., Indulge in Bitter Maledictions
| Against the Brave Defenders of the Law
Performance of HisDuty Likly TO frose
Disastrous to Sheriff Cook.
| WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, Oct. 15.-
| If ludicrous feature to SO terrible an
| occurrence as last nights riotlng can
be permitted, it is to be found here to-
day in the bitter denunciations and ex-
cuses INDUCED in by the citizens gen
orally. For almost ages this has been
q quiet, slow-going, law-loving peo-
| pie. Few manufactures are here, and
consequently labor troubles are I'M
! known. Except cyclone that swept
down this way a few years ago moth
| ing has occurred to mar the even tenor
O. ,lis peoples way.
| When the negro Dolby was arrested
| a. 1 identified, the people, as If follow
Jig an unwritten law, thought he
-ht to be hanged, and the county
S. red the expense of a trial. When
! Sheriff Cook had the audacity to say
t. at he would uphold the law at any
cost, more audacious to them, as
he was candidate for re-elec-
ton, their anger was intense.
They seemingly regarded him as
| defender of the negro and his act, not
as the sheriff of the county, upholding
the law. When he ordered out the To-
cal comp any, the people We're chal-
lenged and defied, they thought, and
became reckless. A brave, cool, de-
termined sheriff, a level-headed colonel
with shot and shell at his back, a
bowling mob; one volley from the
soldiers deadly guns, the dead
and dying members of the
mob strewn around the court
house entrance, their blood flowing
in streams along the pavements; the
law supreme, though at this frightful
cost, brings the story to this morning
when the Cincinnati and other soldiers
came at an early hour, and escorted
the Fourteenth regiment companies
to the train with their prisoner.
Probably only 1000 people saw the
departure, but half the population
were on the streets at breakfast time
to look upon the scene of last nights
bloody fight and renew the denuncia-
ton of the sheriff and soldiers.
The Cincinnati regiment had re-
manned as a precautionary measure,
and kept the crowd from becoming too
demonstrative. Though no violence
was indulged in. the citizen soldiers
We're subjected to jeers and in
suits innumerable. 1t was with the
greatest difficulty that breakfast was
| secured for them, as many Of the hotel
and restaurant keepers positively re-
fused to sell them morsel.
About noon these soldiers were Or
.dered home, and tonight the town
| has taken on the quiet of a country
village. the excitement wearing off
having left the people tired and de-
| feated.
| Col. Colt is denounced by the citizens
| up hill and down dale. Although he
warned the crowd to dispense, and told
them if they did not there would be
| trouble, and then at the risk of his
life went among them and plead with
them to go home, they say he was too
hasty in firing. In fact, in all the earn
estness of an innocent, confiding peo-
pie, they say that, although the mob
was bowling for blood and some dozen
of them had monster ram breaking
down the big oak doors of the court
house behind which his men were
known to be standing with gun in
hand, these people say they thought of
course he would fire blank cartridges.
The fourteenth is not one of the blank
cartridge class. They saved Cincin-
natl from being burned and sacked
during the memorable courthouse riot
a few years ago, and have the habit of
leaving their mark if they are forced
to do it. Col. Colts message to Column
bus last night shows the man. ''If you
want me to bring the man to Column
bus" said he. 81 will do it Immediate
ly, but it will cost blood"
A demand will be made upon Gov.
| Mckinley to court-martial Colt, and
the repu blican county committee will
be urged to strike the sheriff's name
from the ticket. His defeat is certain,
although the county has 1000 to 1880
republican majority. In the last two
sentences the true feeling here is best
shown. It is not a bowling few of ir-
responsibIes that are swaying public
sentiment. 1t is the rank and file of
the very best people in this part of
Ohio. 1t is not their normal state of
mind now possessing them. they are
frenzied to pitch almost uncomfortable.
A few days may tend to quiet matters,
but last nights work will remain fresh
in the minds of all for years to come,
and incidentally it can be remarked
that another mob will not be known in
this community as long as the present
generation lasts. The wounded men
are reported as improving, and it is be-
| lieved all will recover.