The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-05
Like Band of Apachest the Mob
Fell Upon the Unsuspect-
ing Blacks.
THE WOMEN WERE NOT SPARED
Long List Of Those Wounded During
the Furious Attack OF For
eign Miners.

head and dubbed with rifles, face and neck
badly lacerated; may die.
Glenn l.. Marty, aged 80 years, shot in
back of head with rifle ball, thirty buck
shot in back and shoulders; seriously in
jured.
Norman Bird, aged 80 years, shot in neck
and head, badly bruised; internal injuries.
Mrs Bird, aged 81, wife of Norman, shot
in right cheek ard arm.
Maria Bird, daughter of Norman, aged
IA years, shot in the breast; may prove
fatal.
William Lee. aged "a years, kicked and
trampled upon.
Jube Sterritt, aged At, trampled upon,
face lacerated and injured internally;
badly cut by barbed wire fence III attempt
ing to escape from the mob.
Oscar Prin, head bruised with rocks and
| stones.
Silas Burken, bruised with clubs and
shot at about thirty times.
Jude Stuart, bad wound in the head
from club.
James Kelley aged &c years, flesh wounds
and clothing riddled with shot.
William Beck, aged 30 years, badly
| bruised and internal injuries.
| Frank Turner, aged 68 years, shot twice
| in the back of the head and struck in the
back and shoulders by about forty buck
shot.
Frank Burner, head badly bruised
trampled upon and internal injuries.
The Italians for many months have
wished to drive the negroes out of the coal
mining belt, and to-day plausible excuse
for so doing presented itself.
| At o'clock this morning an Italian was
held up on the public highway by four
| negroes, robbed and shot four times, from
| the effects of which his physician says he
cannot live until morning. A mass meet
ing of the Italians was called, and at 10
o'clock mob of over 300 that gathered
started out for the negro village, which is
located two miles west of Spring Valley.
They were headed by the Spring Valley
Italian band, and to deceive the negroes
into thinking the assembly a peaceable
one, this band rendered several National
anthems. The negroes as a result re-
manned in their homes, and the Italians
fell onto them like lot of Apache Indians.
The men wire dragged out dubbed,
trampled upon and made the targets for
mob had brought with them. The women
were insulted, slapped, and two of them,
while begging for mercy, were shot down
and fatally injured. Sheriff Clark of
Princeton was telegraphed for and arrived
on the ground with posse, but came too
late, as the work had long been done be-
fore he arrived.
The negroes fled panic-stricken over the
surrounding hills, and tonight are sleep
ing under trees and in barns, with the ex-
ception of few whom the farmers are
sheltering. Many of the injured may die
before morning. No arrests have been at
tempted.
Judge Stuart was dragged out of his
home, struck in the face, knocking out
eight teeth, and compelled to literally run
gauntlet during which he was knocked
down four or five times and his scalp torn
open. At one time he was left for dying
in his own garden.
Silas Burner and his son-in-law, Frank
Turner, after their families had been gross
ly abused, were dragged out of their homes
and dubbed on the head and turned loose
on the street. A man placed horsepIstol
against the side of Turner's head and
snapped the hammer three times, but it
refused to go off. The two negroes took to
the woods, but as they went four charges of
buckshot from a shotgun were poured into
them Each received over thirty buckshot
in the back of the head, neck and should
ers and it is feared that in the case of
Burner blood poisoning will at once set in.
Granville Lewis, in his home, was so
pounded about the head that it is feared
the sight of one eye will be lost
Over forty houses were occupied by
the colored people, and in these were two
invalid men who could not be moved. One
of them, known as Uncle Enoch, would
have been shot in his bed had not an Ital-
ian, whom he had become acquainted with
the year before, pulled a double-barreled
shotgun away that had been pointed in
his face. The gun was discharged in the
room but the charge did not strike its in
tended victim.
The Italian rioters served notice on the
women and children who had not been
driven out that they and the invalids
| would be given until tonight to leave the
town forever, and that if they were not
gone by dark they would be shot down in
their tracks. Consequently. all the after
! noon the women have been packing all
that is left of their household goods and
are fleeing over the hills in all directions.
Large numbers have started out in the
direction of Toluca, and others have taken
refuge at Seatonville. The injured men,
many of whom are lying at the point of
death are sheltered in barns and under
trees. OF those who are uninjured about
thirty have gathered at Seatonville
and have been collecting arms and
ammunition, and say they will at all
hazards return to Spring Valley in
the morning and remain there until they
are discharged from the services of the coal
company. Some have homes there and all
have wages dues them from the coal COM
pany. They claim the city police have
made very little effort to hunt down the
criminals, but that this is no fault of theirs
and matter for which they will not suf-
fer. This resolution of the negroes has
created considerable apprehension and
more trouble is expected if it should be
carried out.
Word was sent to Sheriff Clark at Prince
ton, who at once commenced the organiza-