The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-10-14
SOLDIERS ENGAGE IN A RIOT.
They Sought to Lynch Provost Guard Alvin
Kitchen at Lexington, Kyle Had
Killed a New York Soldier.


rampant in the camps of the 18th New
York, 1st Territorial and Sd Mississippi
regiments FOR two hours Monday
night. A battle between guards and
officers on one side and riotous sol
! diers ragged for nearly an hour at Camp
Hamilton depot, where 500 men
from the regiments mentioned, drunk,
drinking and armed with knives,
| pistols and clubs, had captured Lex
ington g. Eastern train with the eX-
pressed intention of coming to Lex
ington and preci pitating battle with
the provost guard in retaliation for
the killing of Private Henry Nygen,
Company B, 18th New York, by Pro
vost Guard Alvin Kitchen, Sunday
night, and, if possible, take Kitchen
from the county Jail and lynch him.
When it became generally known in
Camp Hamilton Monday morning that
Rygen had been killed, the privates of
the three regiments mentioned became
very wrathy. They are not friendly
to the provost guard, and especially
| they do not like the Kentuckians
| The 18th New Workers kept up their
mutinous talk until they had inter
ested many of the tough element in
the territorial and Mississippi regi.
ments in movement for revenge.
1t was decided that they would go
into the city on the o'clock train, and
they began assembling at the depot at
ESQ, drunk and disorderly. Dispatcher
Stevens at the L. E. depot learned OF
the intention of the mob just as they
| boarded the train. He wired the Lex
ington depot, and Dispatcher Temp
| kins informed Capt. Gaines, provost
marshal, who ordered that the train be
| held, and at once telephoned to Gen.
| Wiley, in command of the division in
the absence of Gen. Sanger.
Sen. Wiley communicated with Col.
| Leonard, of the 18th New York, who,
with his officers and guard of about
200 men. were hurried to the depot,
and gave the order to the men to leave
the train. from which the engine had
been uncoupled and run up the road.
They refused. Col. Leonard gave the
command to his guards to club
their guns and drive the rascals out
of the coaches" Leading his officers
and guards, he rushed into the train
and the battle began, the rioters fight
| ing like demons with clubs and knives
against the guards, until so or more of
! them, welted over the head and in the
| face with rifles and revolvers, fell I'M
conscious or ran bleeding from the
train to renew the fight on the depot
platform.
BY this time Gen. Wiley had sound
ed the long roll and came with re-en-
forcements to drive the men back to
their regiments. In the cars and on
the platform blood was plentiful
When the men were finally put bach
into the regiment of the 18th New
York they made a break for the pike,
but were repulsed by heavy guard
from the Sd Kentucky, 160th Indiana
and 9Th Massachusetts,
By o'clock all was quiet again. But
Camp Hamilton is being heavily guard
ed. Not man with or without past
can pass the lines. The Sth Massa.
chusetts had out a deploy for two miles
across the country. The Tooth Indiana
stands under arms at headquarters and
three companies of the Sd Ken lucky
have come into Lexington to strengthen
the provost guard. Forty men are
guarding the Jail. Every provost
guard has four rounds of ammunition.
1t is not known positively whether
any were killed About fifty shots
were fired. The surgeons are busy
patching up the wounded. The Off
GERS refuse to give out any informa-
ton concerning the condition of the
men Monday night.
Officers Say Kitchen will unques.
tionably get death sentence. When
he shot Nygren he was under orders
not even to have his gun loaded. 1t is
! said Col Leonard, of the 18th New
York, was the principal promoter OF
| the mob. The matter will be thor
oughly investigated Tuesday.