Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-06
NEaRoEs ARE ArrAcKrp.
White Miners Avenge the Shooting OF
One OF Their Number.

One OF Their Number.
Springfield. Ill. Aug 5-The "Locn-
tion,' a patch Of some 100 odd company
near No. shaft. Inhabited almost eN-
clusively by negroes, was yesterday
morning visited by the vengeance Of
mob OF 900 miners from this city and
given q taste of mob violence.
Saturday night near midnight eve
colored men held UP II white man
named Barney Role between this city
and Location and after robblng him OF
nearly 500 In money fired three pistol
shots into him and left him for dead.
Role. isthe third man shot at Location
In the past few weeks.
When the white miners this morning
heard Of the Outrage they assembled
In the public square and decided TO
march In n body TO Manager DalZiel's
house and demand of him the discharge
OF every colored man In Location. A
brass band was secured md the mob
repaired TO the managers house. lie
refused to grant their request. They
then told him that as he was not dis
posed to run them out OF town they
would take the matter upon themselves
and with that they marched towards
No. 3.
BY the time they arrived at Location
most OF the negroes having been notl-
fled of the wrath Of the whites. had
fed TO the woods. About n dozen were
AluBHI una lifhltu TO most NlOltOt
acts Stones were hurled AT them and
shots fired, Two We're shot down but
not seriously hurt. The boarding house
for colored men at No. 3 was attacked
and all the inmates fed, The mob
ransacked the houses, breaking furnl-
turc and committing other depreda-
tons.
BY noon today every negro had fed
the city All the afternoon n gang
Of men with pistols and shotguns
| secured the woods hunting FOR negroes.
sheriff Clark was telegraphed for and
| arrived late this afternoon with about
a dozen deputies. No more trouble IL
anticipated unless the negroes attempt
10 come back. There IL n prejudice
against them for frequent and bold out
RACES they are charged with. There is
much feeling against Manager Dal2iel
at whose instance, 1t is alleged, they
We're imported,
Everything Is quiet but trouble Is eX-
pccted II the negroes 20 60 work.
Later Investigations shows that there
| were more negroes seriously hurt than
| at first reported. Those most seriously
| wounded are: GRANVILLE Lewis, aged
| 40. shot In the head and dubbed, will
die; W. l.. Martin, aged 90. shot In the
| back OF the head with a rifle ball and
| thirty buckshot In the back and shout
| ders, may die; Norman Bird, aged BE-
shot In the back and head. also bruised
/ ny hiihF anu lHAfl llhA lAIullfFs NAFf
| Bird, aged ~. his wife, shot In the right
cheek and arm, also trumpled upon
may die; Marie Bird. aged A. their
! daughter, shot In breast, wound may
| prove fatal: William Lee. aged "a, kick
| ed and trampled; lube Sterritt, aged
| A. trampled on face lacerated and in
| iured internally; also badly cut by
| harbed wire fence In attempting to es-
| cape from the mob: Oscar Prim Silng
| Burden, lube Stuart. James Kelly, VIII
| Beck all badly cut and bruised; Frank
| Turner. aged 2S, shot twice In the back
| OF the head and struck In the back and
shoulders with about forty buckshot
| Frank Burner head badly bruised,
| body also trampled on and internal
| injuries received.
The rioters were all Italian miners
| There has been bad blood between
| them ana the negroes ever since the
| latter We're imported here. and It Is
asserted that they have been wanting
a good excuse to drive them out. This
was furnished by the shooting last
| night.
Upon reaching the negro village
| the members OF the mob acted MS so
many flendH. Men were dragged out OF
| their houses and women rushed about
| slapped and otherwise misused. The
| Italians poured through the village,
| firing guns and beating the negroes
| right and loft. As each house was
| reached the rloters smaahe1 the win