The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
Details of Scenes Following the Kill
ing of Private Andrews and
WOunding of Private AItmeyer.
SOLDIERS INCITED TO RIOT
AND RESTRAINED ONLY WHEN SUR
ROUNDED WITH BAYONETs.
Departure of Troops from Chicka-
Observation-Disclosures Men Prepar-
ing to Leave Fernandina.
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Corresnondence Of the JournaI.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Camp OF the
! One Observation-Disclosures Indiana Regiment
Aug. 19.-Enraged because of the killing of
Private Alonzo Andrews and the wounding
of Private Altmyer, of Company l, Upton,
body of troops from the Northumberland
sixtieth Regiment, with guns and cartridges,
but without organization or leaders, threat
ened to mob Sam Hail. the confessed muir
derer, last evening. Agitators, drunk with
excitement, loudly called on the soldiers to
! join the mob. There was a slim response.
About seventy-five reckless men threw
themselves through the guards and started
| to Newport News where the citizens were
organizing and waiting to assist in the
hanging of the negro murderer Sam Hail.
| The officers made an unsuccessful effort
| to stop the men, AS they surged through
! the guard line calling for volunteers, the
colonel ordered a bugler TO sound assembly
! Captain Harrison, of Company G., without
direct orders, had his company out on the
extreme right of the regiment before the
head of the struggling column of avengers
reached the right flank of he camp. With
bayonets fixed his men blocked the way
Coolly he faced the insurgents and brought
them to a standstill with a few earnest
words.
Company moved out at double time and
| Joined Company G. Captain Lee threw his
men, Company K, as sKlrmishers, stirl be-
/ yond the front line, and Lieut.. Vail, with
! the boys of Company "A, took a thanking po-
sition. There was nothing for the morgan
| lied forces to do except retire through the
| gap at their rear, left by the formation.
Gradually the officers, by personal appeals
| to the insurgents, induced them to with
draw.
Lieut. Dunn. of Company NJ, galloped up
with the sheriff, and the men gathered to
hear him. He assured the friends of Private
Andrews, the dead man, that he had Sam
Halls confession, and that the negro would
certainly stretch hemp.
Privates Andrews and Altmyer were FL
wood boys. They were quiet men and good
soldiers. Yesterday they were out of the
lines on passes. Near Sam Halls dive in
Bloodfeld they were set upon by a score
| of negroes. The slayer of Andrews fired
while seated in a buggy. The affray did
not occur in the saloon. The soldiers were
not armed. Andrews was shot through the
head. Altmyer received a bullet in the left
| foot. The lead was taken out by friends.
The sheriff promptly removed the colored
criminal from the Jail to Fort Monroe, fear
| Ing violence from the citizens of Newport
| News. He had no fears of violence from the
soldiers until a mounted officer called him
out to explain matters to the restless men
| of the Observation-Disclosures Company
K is in the city on provost duty. A part of
Company left camp after taps last night.
| but no trouble is expected from their trip.
| When the excitement was highest Com
pany Els commander refused point blank to
march his men out to aid in suppressing a
possible disturbance. This company is. from
| Button. and its commander is Captain
| nd r al
| failed to fall in at the command.
Corporal Marks, of Company c. stuck
| rioter with his bayonet AT this point there
were many loud threats, and more than
| one cartridge slipped into the rifles carried
| by members Of the mutineers. The boys
who stood between the frenzied men and
the future disgrace and humiliation of the
/ regiment. also had loads in their Spring
fields, and their jaws were set in the de-
| termination to stand to the oath Solemnly
taken last May at Camp Mount. Among
the Insurgents were frantic agitators who
| howled hoarsely and threw insults in the
| faces of the soldiers in line to preserve
order. The rawlings of the unsteady only
| double lines of men whose bayonets cleaned
| a warning. At one time it was thought the
| rioters would have to be disarmed. but that
step. was not taken. Finally the men were
partially pacified and returned to quarters
1t was only natural that the murder of a
| soldier should arouse his friends
Company l indescribably sad last
night. Stalwart men wept like children, and
Private Altmyer choked and fatered as he
| told many times over of the killing of An
| drews The regiment has never had such
| stirring test of its stamina and discipline.
| Captain Marks. Captain Harrison, Majors
| Harter and Backman, Adjutants Martz and
| Maltby, Captain Ballou, who was officer of
the day, Lieutenant Vail, Captain Sharp.
Captain WINNER, Captain Lee Colonel
| Gunder and Lieutenant Colonel Kiger
very active and successful in their handling
of the enraged men. The good name of the
| e-hundred-and-sixtieth was preserved
without resorting to violence. 1t is learned
that the negro was taken to Norfolk.
| hoe howl
| Warren, having been absent without leave
more than ten days, is now classed as a de-
| serter and action has been taken accord
| ingly. Warren left since our arrival in
| Newport News.
Three more cases of measles were taken
| to Fort Monroe to-day Two victims were
| from Company E-Corporal Jones and Pri-
Jesse Holman. of Company A.
| Corporal Ollie Baldwin. of Company A.
suffered hemorrhage last night and was
| placed in the hospital.
Lieutenant Hubbard, Company G, re-
turned from Fort Monroe to-day to join
| the regiment on the trip to Lexington.
Lieutenant Linvie. of Company G. is
of the most popular officers in the regi-
ment. He is back for duty after a short
| illness.
Lieutenants Reed, Spencer and Linvie
/ form a board of survey to determine the
| value of government property taken by De-
Serter Charles Warren, of Company H
camp wide berth since the shooting of a
member of the regiment by colored tough.
Several soldiers who have found toadS and
moccasin snakes in their blankets anx-
| ious to return to Gods country
There is no doubt that malarial fever is
getting in its work here. Houses are all
high off the ground and the natives sleep
upon second floors to escape the fever but
very few avoid it. The soldier. lying upon
the ground. is almost certain to fall a
victim to the Eliasrna.
Lieutenant Henry Johnson, of Company
f, was in charge of the provost guard that
quelled the riOttng that followed the shoot
ing of two soldiers in Bloodfield yesterday.
With fixed bayonets. his squad charged
through the tough colored district. driving
hundreds of black roisterers to cover
G. s.
Another Serious Riot.
NEWPORT NEWS Aug 21-The riotous