The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-08
A MINER ROBBED AND WOUNDED
AND HIS FRIENDS SDIZE
THAT PRETEXT
TO CLEAN OUT AN ENTIRE SET.
ELEMENT OF NEGROES.
Many Negroes Wounded, Some Fatally
Their ASSISTANTS were Italians.
AGl Negroes Ordered to Leave
ON Pain of Death.

Spring Valley, ILL.,, Aug. 4.-rhe "Loca-
tion," patch of some hundred odd acres,
near No. shaft, inhabited almost ex-
clusively by negroes, was this morning
visited by the vengeance of a mob of 500
miners from this city and given taste
of mob violence.
Last might near midnight five cOlOred
men held UP white miner named Harvey
Role between this city and the" Location
and after robbing him of nearly 500 in
money fired three pistol Sho1S Tito him
and left him for dead. Role is the third
man shot at the Location III the past
few weeks.
When the white miners this morning
heard of 1.-THE outrage they assembled in the
public square and decided TO march in a
body to Manager Dalziels house and de-
mand of him to discharge every colored
man in the Location" A brass band
M1as occurred and the mob repaired to the
managers home. He refused to grant
their request. They then told him THAT
as he was not disposed Ito run them out of
town they would take THE matter upon
themselves and with that they marched
towards No. 3 shaft.
~ By the time they arrived ait the "LocaI
. ton" most of the negroes, having been
notified of the wrath of the whites, had
fled to the woods. About "a dozen were
caught and treated Ito most violent acts.
Stones were hurled at them and shots
fired. Two We're shot but not seriously
hurt. The boarding house for colored men
at No. 8 was attacked and alll the inmates
fled. The mob ransacked the house,
breaking furniture and committing other
depredations.
By noon today every negro bad fled
the city. All afternoon q gang of men
with pistols and shOtguns secured the
woods, hunting for negroes.
Sheriff Clark was telegraphed for and
arrived late tLis afternoon with about a
dozen deputies. No more trouble is an
ticipated unless THE negroes attempt to
come back. There is a prejudice against
them for frequent and bold outrages they
are charged with.
There is much feeling against Manager
DalZeil, at whose instance, it is alleged,
they were imported.
Everything is quiet tonight but trouble
is expected tomorrow if the negroes go to
work.
Later-TnvestigatiOn this evening shows
that there were more negroes seriously
hurt than at first reported. Those most
seriously hurt are: Granville Lewis, aged
40, shot in the head; G. l.. Martin, aged
81, shot in the back of head with rifle ball
and 80 buckShot i'm back and shoulders,
may die; Norman Bird, aged 81, shot in
the neck and head, also bruised by kicks
an internal injuries; Mrs. Bird, aged 81,
his wife, shot in right check and arm, also
trampled upon, will die; Marie Bird, IA
Years old, their daughter, shot in breast,
wound may prove fatal; VIM. Lee, aged
"a, kicked and trampled upon; Jube Ster,
rift, aged 4, trampled on, face Iacerated
Ind internal injuries, also badly cut by
sJarbed wire fence in attempting TO escape
from she mob; Oscar Prim, Silas Burden
lube Stuart, James Kelley, Will Beck,
all badly cut and bruised; Frank Turner,
aged 2Sf shot twice in back OF me head
and struck in the back and shoulders Wlth
about 40 buckshot; Frank Bqrler mead
badly bruised, body also trampled ON ana
internal injuries received.
The Others were all Italians. There
has been bad blood between them and the
negroes ever since the latter were import
ed here and 1T is asserted that they nave
heen waiting a good excuse to drive them
ont This was Furnished by the shooting
Upon reaching the negro village the
members of the mob acted as so many
fiends. Men We're dragged out OF their
homes ana Tile WOUlell IuSl-u t'pout'
stamped and otherwise nisused. The
Italians poured Through the village, hI1ng
gums and beating negroes right and left.
AS each house was reached the rioters
smashed the windows and where doors
were locked they broke them DOWN. line
interiors were ransacked, the women IN
suited and the men dragged forth, dubbed
and shot. That there We're no7 large
number of immediate fatalities was mo
fault of the rioters, as they used every
endeavor in their power to kill the men
outright. One reason that many negroes
escaped was that the weapons of the
rioters were mostly old rusty guns that
had not been used for years, a1d i'm addl-
ton the men were mot skilled i'll the use
of them.
Over 80 houses were occupied by the
colored people and i'm these vera two
invalid men who could not be moved The
rioters this evening served notice on the
women and children who had not been
driven out that they and the invalids
would be given until tomrrow 20 leave and
that if they were not gone they would be
shot down in their tracks. Consequently
the women have been packing their
household goods and fleeing in all direc-
tions over the hills. Large numbers have
started i'm the direction of TOluca and
others have taken refuge at Hatonville.
The injured men, many of whom are at
the point of DEATH are sheltered in barns
and under trees.