The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-05
Five Hundred Men March Against
Negro Colony.
TASTE OF MOB VIOLENCE.
TROUBLE STARTED BY THE Me-
GROEs HOLDING UP, a MAN.
Robbed Him, Shot Him and Left Him
for Dead-An Organized Company
with Brass Band March to
Where the CoIored Miners Were,
But They Had All FIed-ScOuring
the Woods for Them.

SPRING VALLEY, ILL.,, Aug. 4.-"The
Location" patch of some hundred odd
company houses near No. shaft, inhab-
tied almost exclusively by negroes was
this morning visited by a vengefuI mob of
500 white miners from this city, and given
a taste of mob violence. Last night near
midnight five colored men held UP a
white man named Barney Role between
this city and the Location, and after rob-
bling him of nearly 500 fired three pistol
shots into him and left him for dead.
Role is the third man shot at Location
in the past few weeks. When the white
miners of this city heard of the outrage
they assembled on the public square and
decided to march in a body to General
Manager DalzelPs house and demand of
him the discharge of every colored man
in Location. A brass band was secured
and the moo repaired 20 the general man.
ayers house. He refused to grant what
the white men wanted. They then told
him that as ne was not disposed to run
them out of town, they would take the
matter upon themselves, and with that
they marched toward No. 3. By the time
the mob arrived at Location most of the
negroes having been notified of the wrath
About a dozen were caught and treated
to most violent kicks. Stones were hurled
at them and shots fired. Two were shot
but not seriously injured.
The boarding house for colored men at
No. 3 was then attacked. All the inmates
ffd for their lives. The mob ransacEed
the houses, breaking furniture and COM
hitting other depredations. By noon to-
day every negro had fed. All afternoon
a gang of men with pistols and ShotgunS
secured the woods hunting for negroes
to shoot at. Sheriff Clark arrived late
this afternoon with about dozen depu-
ties. No more trouble is anticipated UNI
less the negroes attempt to come back.
There is a terrible prejudice here against
&I,a,1, Fo,- nd hAlH fro raG
are charged with committing. There IS
much feeling against Dalzell, at whose in
stance it is alleged they were imported.
Everything is quiet but trouble is eX-
pected tomorrow if negroes go % work.
The rioters were all Italian miners.
There has been bad blood between them
and the negroes ever since the latter were
imported here, and il is asserted That
they have been waiting good excuse TO
drive them out. This was furnished by
the shooting of last night. Upon reaching
the negro village the members Of the MOB
acted as so many iiends. Men were drag
ged out of their homes and the women
pushed about, slapped and otherwise
abused The Italians poured through the
village. firing guns and beating the ne
goes right and left A house reached the
rioters smashed the windows and where
doors were locked they beat them Town.
The interiors were ransacked, the Wo-
men insulted and the mel dragged torth,
dubbed and shot. That there was not
large number of immediate fatalities was
no I2ulI OIL me IlOlcl do
endeavor in their power to Kill the men
outright The weapons OF the rloters
were mostly old rusty guns that had Eot
been used for years and IN addltlon the
men were not skilled in the use OF thern
The rioters this evening served notice
on the women and children VINO had not
been driven out that they would be gwen
until tomorrow to leave the town and that
if they were not gone they would DC shot
down in their tracks. Consequently the
women have been packing all mat Is leIt
of their household goods ana neelhS over
the hills in all directions.
Later investigation shows that there
were more negroes seriously hurt tnaI a.
first reported. Those most seriously IN
jured are: -,
Granville Lewis, aged a., shot in the
head. dubbed with rifles, will die.
elem L. Martin, aged 90, shot in back OF
head with rifle bali, and thirty buckshot
in back and shoulders, may die.
Norman Bird, aged 3S, shot IN neck ana
head, also badly bruised by kicks and in
ternal injuries received:
Mrs Bird. aged 81, wife of above, shot
in right cheek and arm, also trampled up
on. will die.
Maria Bird, aged A. daughter af above,
shot in breast, wound may prove fatal
William Lee, aged "a, kicked and tram
pied upon.
Jube Sterritt aged AZ, trampled upon,
face larcerated and injured internally, al
so badly cut by barbed wire fence in at
tempting to escape from the mob
Oscar Prim Slas Burden, James Kelly, |
VIII Beck. all badly cut and bruised.
Frank Turner, aged 81 shot twice in /
back of head and struck IN back and /
shoulders with about forty buckshot.
Frank Burner, head badly bruised body 1
trampled upon and internally injured.