The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-05
Homes Of Colored People Rafded ana
the Occupants Assaulted by 500
Furious Foreigners.
WOMEN AMONG THE VICTIMS
ALL SURVIVORS ORDERED TO LEAVE
THE PLACE OR SUFFER DEATH.
Many OF the Negroes and Their Fami-
lies En- Route 60 More Hospitabie
Towns-Cause OF the Trouble.

StRING VALLEY, Ill. Aug. 1.-The 10
cation" patch OF some hundred odd COM
pans houses near No. shaft. inhabited
almost exclusively by negroes. was this
morning visited by the vengeance OF a mob
OF five hundred 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 robbing him of nearly 500 in money
fired three pistol shots into him and left
him for dead. Rolfe IS the third man shot
at Location" in the past few weeks
When the white miners in this city this
morning heard OF the outrage they assem-
bled in the public square and decided TO
march in body TO General Manager Dali
zelrs house and demand of him the dis
charge of every colored man in Location"
A brass band was secured. and the mob
marched 10 the general managers house.
He refused to grant what the white min
ers wanted. They then told him that as
he was not disposed 10 run them out o.
town they would take the matter upon
themselves. and with that they marched
toward mine No. 3. BY the time the mob
arrived at Location" most OF the negrtes.
having heard of the wrath OF the whites.
had fed 10 the woods. About a dozen
were caught and roughly handled. stones
were hurled at them and shots fired. Two
were shot, but not seriously hurt. The
boarding house for colcred men at No :
was then attacked. All the inmates fed
for their lives. The mob ransacked the
houses. breaking furniture and committing
other depredations BY noon to-day every
negro had fed the city. All afternoon a
gang OF men with pistols and shotguns
secured the woods hunting for negroes 10
shoot at Sheriff Clark. who was tele-
graphed for, arrived late this afternoon
with about dozen deputies.
VICTIMS OF THE MOB.
Later investigation this evening showed
that there were more negroes seriously
hurt than at first reported. Those most
seriously are:
GRANVILLE LEWIS. aged forty-fve.
SdH' viii die. ie inc 'ea' anu ' WIN
GLEN L. MARTIN. aged thirty-two,
shot in back OF head with rifle ball and
thirty buck shot in back and shoulders.
NORMAN BIRD. aged thirty.-two. shot
In neck &c and head; also f,rns bruised by Kicks
MRS. BIRD. aged thirty-ene, wife OF
above, shot if right cheek and arm. alzo
trampled upon, will die.
MARIA BIRD. aged fourteen. daughter
of above, shot in breast. wound may prove
fatal.
JUBE sTEEkIrT, aged forty-seven,
trampled upon. face lacerated and injured
fence in attempting to escape from the
mob.
OSCAR PRIMs ha4ly cut and bruised.
sILAS BURDEN. cult and bruised
JUDE STUART bruised.
JAMES KELLEY, cut
WILL BECK, badly cut and bruised,
shot twice in back of head and struck IN
back and shoulder wllh about forty buck
FRANK BURNER. head badly bruised.
body also trampled on and internal In
juries received
The rioters were all Italian miners There
has been bad blood between them and the
negroes ever since the latter were imcort-
ed here, and II is asserted that they have
been awaiting a good excuse 10 drive them
out This was furnished by the shooting OF
last night. On reaching the negro village.
the members of the mob acted 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 We /. locked they
DrOke tnem lOWn. ne interiors were ram
sacked. the women insulted ani the men
dragged forth, clubbed and shot.
That there were not large rumber OF
immediate fatalities was no 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 ola,
rusty guns. that had not been used for
years, and, in addition, the men were not
skilled in the use of them Over forty
houses were occupied by. tha colore1 people.
and in these were two invalid aiea wno
could not be moved
The rioters this evening served notice on
the women and children who had not been
driven out that they aid the invai.ds would
be given until tomorrow TO leave the town.
and that If they were not gone they would
be shot down in their tracks. Consequent-
iy the women have been packing all that IL
left OF their household goods and are fee
ing over the hills in all directions. Large
numbers have started out In the direction
OF Toiuca, and Others have taken refu-e at
Seatonville. The injured men, some OF
whom are lying at the point OF death. are
sheltered in barns and under trees.
ZIP WYATT CAPTURED.