The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-20
MURDERER FIRES MAGAZINE.
.,, OTHERS AND HIMSELF KILLED
BY THE EXPLOSION.

w., warned the Posse in Pursuit OF
aim what He would Do If They
,...nDted to Arrest Him-Finally
,..d Them to Death by Profess
Willingness to Surrender.
,,sta As They Got Near Him the EX-
,tosion was Precipitnted.
o.el7nd Cal, July 1s-The works of
western Fuse and Explosive Company
- blown up by a murderous Chinaman
o'clock this afternoon. Five deputy
s.srtfs and constables who were trying
- s~rest the murderer, were killed. The
dead are:
,-I1TF son of Sheriff White.
GEORGE WOODSUM.
n C. CAMERON.
Gus KOCH,
J. j. LERRI.
MRS HILL
COON Nc. CHUNG.
THE Chinam~n nad fortified himself in
.be MAGAZINE and blew it up when the at
,ernr 10 arrest him was made.
The celestial, who was employed in the
works. and who caused the awful explo-
sior had killed a fellow countryman yes
+er5ay in a quarrel over a lottery ticket.
The murderer fled into the magazine,
which contained five tons of giant powder,
h,rrcaded himself and threatened to blow
ro the MAGAZINE if any one came to ar
resi- him.
Deputy Sheriff Charles White, son of
Sheriff White. in charge of a posse, con-
e,sting of Constables Gus Koch, Deputy
Constable j. J. Lerri and Deputy Consta-
HE Harry Cramer were on the scene of
tbe shooting shortly after the murder, and
Kent guard over the Chinaman within mis-
stronghold. All the officers were armed
with rifles
Alter repeated demands to surrender
had been made, 10 all of which the same
replv came: IF you come in here 1 will
blow up the magazine" the officers re-
tired for the night within the private Of
flee of the company about twenty yards
away.
This morning at o'clock Deputy Sheriff
White. after a consultation with the 9TH
ers. determined to break down the barri-
cade not believing the Chinaman would
keep his promise. Accordingly, the entire
posse headed for the door.
True to his word, the Chinaman fred
the giant powder, killing FIVE officers and
blowing the Chinaman to atoms so small
that but one piece has been found
Whites body was fearfully mangled. It
was found nearly 800 yards away
Mrs. Hin was visiting a Mrs Pride, who
lived across the way. She was killed in
The falling debris of the building.
All the buildings caught fire Engines
were soon lighting the fames but to no
avail. The works were completely
wrecked.
-Four houses also, were blown down and
about forty partially wrecked.
Deputy Sheriff Fred Sheriff and Depu-
Y I'd White escaped, but are painfully
wounded.
Deputy Sheriff Sheritt's story is TO the
effect that at o'clock this morning the
Chnaman called to Deputy Sheriff White
that ne would surrender White. Woodsum
and Koch Immediately proceeded TO the
door while the others followed
Just as the door was reached a sound as
OF a falling plank was heard and then the
eXp.os-on occurred. The name of the
Cmnaman was Coon Ng Chung. The man
ne had murdered was Sam ST Sing.
Coroner Wadeni and corps of deputies
are searching through the surrounding
fields for the remains.
In some instance they had to be picked
up with shovels.
fourteen cars were blown to splnters
ana several were burned.
windows We're broken in Oakland Ala
media aud as far as Berkley.
sheriff and Ed White are nervous
wrecks They We're carried over forty feet
uy the force of the explosion and thrown
violently 10 the ground.