The morning times., 1895-08-05
Preceded by a Band italians Fall
Upon Negroes.
BLOODY RIOT IN ILLINOIS
Fourteen Persons, Among Them Two
Women, Were Clubbed, Shot and
TrampIed Upon-Assauit Upon an
Italian Miner 10y Colored Man
Tnken as the Pretext for Uprising.
lBY limited Press

Princeton, Ill Aug. 4--Ihe ltalan
OF Spring Valley broke out to-day in
war upon the negroes with a view Of
either nlaSsacreing them or driving them
from without tie city limits.
Fourteen Eegrces, among them two
women, were seriously wounded, some
fatally.
The Italians for some montls have wished
TO drive the negroes out of the coal mining
belt and to-day Il plausible excuse pre-
Sented itself.
AT O'Clock this morning an Italian was
attacked on the public highway by four
negroes and robbed and shot four times,
from the effects of which his physician
says he cannot live until morning.
A ass-meeting of the Italians was
called ana AT 10 O'Clock Il 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 peaceable one
this band rendered several national an
thems.
THEIR VICTIMS DECEIVED.
The negroes as result remained in
their homes. The Italians fell onto them
like lot Of Apache Indians.
The men were dragged out, dubbed,
trampled upon, and made the targets for
the shot guns. rifles. and small arms the
mob had brought with them. The women
were insuited, slapped, and two OF them,
while begging for mercy, Were shot down
and fatally injured. Sheriff Clark, of
Princeton was telegraphed for and ar
rived on the ground with d posse, but came
too late, as tie work had been done long
before he arrived.
The negroes He'd terror-striCken over the
surrounding hills, and Tonight are sleep
ing under trees and ia barns, with the
/ exception OF few whom the farmers are
I sheltrring. Many Of the injured are eN-
peCted 10 die before morning. No arrests
as vet have been attempted.
Jude Stuart, a harmless old negro and
! broken Gown in health, was dragged out
ol his home. struck in thefacV, Knocking out
eight teeth, and compelled 20 literally run
a gauntlet, during which he was knocked
! down four or five times and his scalp
| torn open.
LEFT DYING IN HIS GARDEN.
At Que tine he was left for dying in
his own garden. Silas Burden and his
spn-in-law Frank Turner, after their Tami-
| lies had been grossly abused, were dragged
| out OF their homes aud clubbed over the head
| aud turned LlOse on the street. A rioter
/ placed a horse-pistol against the side OF
/ Turner'S head aud snapped the hammer
three times, but ii failed 10 20 off.
The two negroes took for the woods
/ but as they went four charges of buckShot
! from shotgun were poured into them
] Each received over 80 buckshot in the
! back Of the head, neck aud shoulders and
ii is feared ia the case of Burden that blood
poison win set in
/ Granville Lewis. in his home, was so
4 pounded up about the head that it is
feared the sight OF one eye viii be lost.
1 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
( italian with whom he had become acquaint-
I ed the yea r befOr, pulled double baTrelled
! shotgun away that had been pointed in
( his face. The gun was discharged ia the
room but the charge did not strike its
! intended victim.
DRIVEN FROM THE TOWN
The Italian rioters served notice on the
women and children who had not been
driven out that they and the inyaldS would
be given until tonight to leave the town
forever and that if they We're not gone
by dark they would be shot down IN their
| tracks
Consequently all afternoon the women
have been packing all that is left of their
household goods and fleeing over the hills
| in an directions. Large numbers have
started ont in the direction of TOluca and
others have taken refuge at Seatonville.
The injured men. many of whom are lying
on the point off death, are sheltered IN
ba rms and under trees OF those who are
unnjured. about thirty. have gathered al
fifafra n rms
and ammunition and say they viii at al
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 due them from the Goa
company.
They claim t2,e e city police have made very
I little effort to hunt down the criminals, but
that il is no fault OF theirs, and a matter
for which they will not suffer.
MORE TROUBLE Is FEARED.
The resolution OF the negroes has created
considerable apprehension, and more trouble
is expected If it should be carried out
When the rioters were organizing near The
city hall the mayor was notified of th'
threatened trouble by a group Of citizens
10 whom he replied il was 40 use for hin
TO try to.dO ar thing. Word was thel
I sent To Sheriff Clark at Princeton, who a
once commenced the organizing of a posS'
by sounding the fire alarm and enlistint
the men as fast they turned out.
BY noon he mad a sufficient number, bu
at that hour word was received tina actua
rioting had ceased, so he went 20 the scene
OF the trouble with only dozen men. Tht
negroes asked that protection be givcI
them SO that they could return TO thei
homes, but the. sheriff referred them tC
the city authorities, and the latter so ia
have refused protection of any E%Jure.
wELL-KNOwNC CITIZEN DEAD.