Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-10
CRIES OF LYNCH HIM!
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PACED
number Of typhoid cases, only nine having

| been reported since yesterday noon.
Private John Storr, Ninth Ohio Bat
TALON (colored), shot coiored woman
last night and has not been seen since.
Private Martin Nansen. Company +,
Sixty-fifth New York. shot of his hand,
and the surgeon decided to amputate his
arm.
OFFICIAL REPORT.
Captain j. r. Hutchins, who was officer
OF the day of the regiment. informs me
that the following report was submitted
by him to Colonel Male:
AT 7:45 o'clock. the evening OF August
sth, on my way TO mess for supper, OBJ
served some disorder a short distance
outside the lines, l being then in the
lines myself Some lieutenant. mounted.
whom / did not recognize by name or
regiment, said to me that a hospital
steward of the Second Division Hospital
had been killed by negro and a crowd
was about TO lynch him. / ran across the
road and saw quite a number of the
hospital corps In pursuit of the negro.
Just al that moment the excitement had
reached our lines. and seventy-hve or one
hundred men-some OF this regiment,
some of other regiments. and some civil
lians, who had congregated along the
roadside-ran into the field. apparently
W hlu Oul Wudl the lTOuDic was, ana
upon hearing the rumor, as mentioned
above, made a dash 10 join in pursuit
Of the negro. The guard was turned
out promptly. and in very few minutes
suppressed the excitement, and all our
men returned within our lines. There was
still considerable crowd OF soldiers OF
other regiments and civilians gathered
along the public road. and some excite
ment prevailed. which was suppressed as
speedily as possible. A short while after
wards L received orders TO call the long
roll, which was done during the storm.
While the roll was being called, and every
street crowded with soldiers. General
Butler and two of his staff rode into our
lines. The storm prevailing, the long
roll in progress, the dark. and the COM
mands for the companies to fall in, could
easily be mistaken for disorder This was
the only seeming disorder existing. To
sum the matter up in brief. the trouble
that occurred was not within the lines OF
this regiment. The difficulty did not
occur within the lines of this regiment
The excited crowd that joined in the
chase or the negro consisted largely of
the hospital corps. few men from this
regiment. and men from other regiments
and civilians. 1t was in the lines OF the
Second Division Hospital. The men OF
this regiment, upon being ordered back
TO within the lines. returned without any |
trouble whatever. in an orderly manner" |
Nothing official can be learned as to !
when the Third will leave here, though |
the impression among the officers is that |
we will not go before the first of next |
week, and that our camp will be near /
Thoroughfare Gap. about twelve miles |
from Manassas. have 1t from a reliable |
source that President Mckinley stated |
that he selected the regiments for the |
provisional division under Major-General /
Wade. and that they would not be
and would go to Porto Rico pos
lively, whether peace was declared or
not. The men are very anxious TO be on
the move. and express the hope that
peace will not be declared until they get
10 the front