Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-05
) . 10 II torRIO0S RACE RIOT
Occurred Yesterday in the Illinois
Mining District.
Fourteen Colored Miners Shot, Cut
and Beaten by a Mob Of Five
Hundred Whites - The Trouble
Grew Out of an Attack on a
White Man by Five Negroes.

Spring Valley H., August 4.-The
Location" a patch Of some hundred
odd company houses near No. 3 shaft,
inhabited almost exclusively by negroes,
was this morning visited by a mob of
five hundred white miners from this
city and given a taste of mob vengeance.
Last night five colored men held up a
white man named Barney Role, and af
ter robbing him of nearly 500 in mon
ey, fired three pistol shots into him and
left him for dead
When the white miners of this city
this morning heard of the outrage, they
assembled on the public square and
marched in body TO General Manager
Dalzelps house and demanded of him
the discharge of every colored man in
Location He refused TO grant what
the white miners wanted. With that
they marched towards No. 3. BY the
time the mob arrived at Location"
most Of the negroes had been notified
Of the wrath of the whites and had
fled to the woods. About a dozen were
caught and treated to most violent acts.
Stones were hurled at them and shots
tired. Two were shot, but not seriously
hurt. All afternoon a gang of men with
pistols and shOt-guns secured the woods
hunting for negroes to shoot at.
THE WOUNDED.
GRANVILLE LEWIS, aged 45. shot
in the head, clubbed with rifles: will die.
GLEN L. MARTIN, aged 32, shot in
back Of head with rife ball and thirty
buckshot in back and shoulders; may
die.
NORMAN BIRD, aged 3S, shot in
neck and head, also badly bruised by
kicks and internal injuries received.
MRS. BIRD, aged 81, wife of above,
shot in right cheek and arm, also tram
pied upon; will die
MARIA BIRD. aged II, daughter of
above, shot in breast; wound may prove
fatfl.
VIM. LEE, aged "a, kicked and tram
pied upon.
JOBE STERRITT, aged AZ, trampled
upon, face lacerated, and injured inter
nally, also badly cut by barbed wire
fence in attempting to escape from mob.
OSCAR PRIM, SILAS BURDEN,
JUDE STEWART, JAMES KELLEY,
WILL BECK. all badly cut and bruised
FRANK TURNER, aged o. shot
twice in back of head and struck in
back and shoulders with about forty
buckshot
FRANK BURNER, head badly bruis-
ed, body also trampled upon and inter-
mel injuries received.
OVER FORTY HOUSES
were occupied by the colored people
and. in these We're 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 inval:ds would
be given until tomorrow TO leave the
town forever, and that if they were not
gone they would be shot down in their
tracks Consequently the women have
been packing all that is left of their
household goods and fleeing over the
hills in all directions. Large num-
bers have started out in the direction
of Toluca. and others have taken refuge
at SeatOnyille.
The injured men. many of whom are
lying at the point of death, are shell
tered in barns and under trees.
THE RIOTERS
were all Italian miners. There has beer
bad blood between them and the ne
grOeS ever since the latter were i'm
ported here, and it is asserted that they
have been waiting for a good excuse to
drive them out This was furnished by
the shooting of last night Upon reach
ing the negro village the members OF
the mob acted as so many fiends. Men
were dragged out of their homes and the
women pushed about, slapped and
otherwise abused. The Italians poured
through the village, firing guns and
beating the negroes right and left.
As each house was reached the rioters
smashed the windows and where doors
were locked they brokethem down. The
interiors were ransacked the women
insulted and the men dragged forth,
clubbed and shot. That there was not
q large number of immediate fatalities
was no, fault of the rioters, as they useG
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
ruStV guns.