The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-11
Over 500 Arrests Made by the Hoosiers
and the Streets Cleared of All
DisorderIy Soldiers.
NOTES FROM CAMP HAMILTON
COLORED IMMUNES AND HOLSTERS
NOT ON GOOD TERMS.
Col. Gunder's Men Too Strict While ON
Guard Duty to Please the Black
SOIdiers-Much Typhoid.

II1AANd1ON, n.y., Ocr. 1U.-Pr1Vate Ed
ward ingram, a young Swede belonging to
Company B. Twelfth New York, was shot
and killed at midnight by Provost Guard
Kitchen while running away to evade ar
rest. His body was first identified by
pass in his pocket as Private Hefferman.
of the same company and regiment, but
Hefferman answered to roll call this morn
ing and inquiry developed that he had
loaned an expired pass to ingram. Private
Bailey of the Third Engineers, was also
shot by the provost guard and is in a crit
ical condition.
AS result of the killing of ingram three
or four hundred members of that regiment
formed mob tonight and seized a train at
Camp Hamilton with the intention of COM
ing to town on it and raiding the county iail
for the purpose of taking Kitchen out and
lynching him. General Wiley and Colonel
Leonard were quickly notified of the upris
ing and they suppressed the mob by the
most radical and prompt action. The out
break was not unexpected and the iail was
heavily guarded. The provost guard in the
city was also doubled and things are now
quiet at midnight. 1t is believed that the
prompt measures that were taken have pre-
vented what promised to be a very serious
affair.
The rioting tonight was the SEQUEL not
only of the fatal fights last night. but also
CT the drunken carousals that have been
going on since pay day. Last night there
were two killed and two wounded and to-
night a lynching was narrowly prevented
The drinking and disordery conduct is not
in Camp Hamilton, but in the city, when
the men get off on leaves Of absence. The
New York soldier was last midnight killed
by Provost Guard Alvia Kitchen, of the
Third Kentucky, while running away
away from fight he had been in at a dive.
He refused to halt when Kitchen called to
him to do so. Kitchen fired twice at the
soldier, 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
threaten others as well as Kitchen. Private
Bailey who was also shot while in the
from a fight he had been in at a dive
fering terribly from the effects of the
wound in his thigh and is in a serious con-
dition.
There is more excitement in Lexington to-
night than at any time since the troops were
brought here. When the 1880 Louisville Ss
Nashville train started to town from Camp
Hamilton a crowd of three hundred men,
bers 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 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 back instructing
the train to be held. He sent a battalion to
the scene of the trouble under Captain Hol-
brook, adjutant general on General Waites
staff. Captain Holbrook ordered all peace
ful soldiers to return to the camp
corporal spoke up and said: "An who
do are cowards.' Captain Holbrook asked
him to what regiment he belonged and he
answered: "The big four" Captain Hol-
brook told him that was no way to speak
to an officer. The soldier made some reply
and Holbrook grabbed him by the arm The
soldier tore away, Ieaving his coat sleeve
in the captains hands and drawing a gun
shot at Holbrook. The bullet missed the
captain. The corporal then climbed under
a car. Lieutenant Langdon followed him
and was shot at twice. The soldier escaped.
Many of the Twelfth New York Regiment
had to be dubbed into submission The
Eighth Massachusetts Regiment was placed
as special guard around Camp Hamilton.
Later a report reached camp that the
mob was forming in town. The entire One
hundred-and- Indiana Regiment was
sent to town about IL p. m. A guard of
fifty men has been placed around the Jail,
and jailer, sheriff and deputies, armed with
Winchesters. are protecting the prisoner.
Kitchen is badly scared and fears he will
yet be lynched
Colonel Gunder, Of the One-hundred-and-
sixtieth, and his men patrolled the streets,
going through every restaurant, saloon and
open house in town and arresting every
soldier. Officers are arrested the same as
men. All are taken to Loudon Park, with
the regiment guarding them. Over five hun
dred were arrested. There is not a soldier
in town now except the provost guard.
Captain Gaines. in charge of the provost
guard, tonight ordered his men to not
shoot unless compelled to. but when they
did to take aim to kill.
Officers say Kitchen will unquestionably
get the death sentence. When he shot
Nygren he was under orders not even to
have his gun loaded. 1t is said Colonel
Leonard. of the Twelfth New York. was the
principal promoter of the mob The matter
win be thoroughly investigated tomorrow.