The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-10-14
RIOT At CAMP HAMILTON
Caused by the Murder of a
Private.
SOLDIERS SEIZE A TRAIN
Dead Mans Companions Swear Ven
geance, and Attempt LynchIng-
Exciting Night at Lexington.

Lexington, KY, Oct. 12.-As re-
suit of the killing of a private in the
Twelfth New York regiment by Provost
Guard Kitchen last night, 800 or 400
members of that regiment formed
mob tonight and seized train at Camp
Hamilton, with the intention of COM
ing to town on it and raiding the
county Jail for the purpose of taking
Kitchen out and lynching him. Gen
eral Wiley and Colonel Wood were
quickly notified of the uprising, and
they suppressed the mob by the most
radical and prompt action. The out
break was not unexpected, and the Jail
was heavily guarded. The provost
guard in the city was also doubl.
and things are now quiet, at midnighr
The rioting tonight was the sequel
not only of the fatal fights last night,
but also of the drunken carousaIs that
have been going on since pay day.
Last night there were two killed and
two wounded, and a lynching was mar
rowly prevented. The drinking and
disorderly conduct is not in Camp
Hamilton, but in the city, when the
men get off on leave of absence.
Private Hefferman, of the Twelfth
New York. was last midnight killed by
Provost Guard Alvin Kitchen, of the
Third Kentucky, while the former was
running away from fight he had been
in at a dive, and he refused to halt
when Kitchen called to him to do SO.
Kitchen fired twice at Hefferman. the
second shot being fatal. The soldiers
are still desperately enraged at the
provost guard for chasing them with
weapons, when they are in the city,
and threatened others as we'll as Kit
chen. Private Bailey, who was also
shot while in the city last night by the
provost guard, is suffering terribly from
the effects of the wound in his thigh,
and is in a serious condition. The
two colored immunes who were shot in
camp yesterday when Sergeant Green
was killed by Corporal Edwards are
resting easier tonight. There is more
excitement in Lexington tonight than
at any time since the troops were
brought here.
When the 1880 l.. & N. train started
to town from Camp Hamilton, a crowd
| of 800 members of the Twelfth New
York Regiment was at the depot to
board it. They were armed, and were
coming to town to try to get Alvin
Kitchen from Jail and shoot him. The
operator at the station wired to the di
vision headquarters in the camp the
facts, and General Wiley wired bach
instructing the train to be held. HI
sent battalion to the scene of the
trouble, under Captain Holbrook, ad
jutant-general on General Wade's staff
Captain Holbrook ordered all peaceful
soldiers to return to the camp.
The Sixth Massachusetts regimen
was placed as special guard arount
Camp Hamilton.
Later report reached camp that the
mob was forming in town.
The entire One Hundred and Sixtietf
Indiana regiment vas sent to towI
about ii O'Clock. A guard of 5 mel
has been placed around the Jail, ant
jailers and deputies, armed with Win
chesters. are protecting the prisoners
Kitchen is badly scared, and fears h
will be lynched.
Kitchen will unquestionably get th'
death sentence. When he shot Dyrel
he was under orders not to have hi
gun loaded. 1t is said Colonel Leonard
of the Twelfth New York, was the prin
cipal promoter of the mob. The matte
will be thoroughly Investigated to