The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-19
CARTERVILLE RIOT.
The Military Has the Situation Well
in Hand = Twenty-scven Rioters
Arrested, Charged with Murder.

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Arrested, Charged with Murder.
cARTERv1LLE. ILL.,. Sept. 1s-There
is little change In the situation here,
but what little there is, is for the bet
ter. Sen cummlns, the wounded negro.
died last night, making a total of i've
killed. Four more were seriously
wounded. but are expected to recover.
The coruner's Jury is still in session and
win not adjourn before tomorrow.
Until that time 1t is expected that no
arrests will take place.
Mayor Zimmerman comes out in
signed statement to-day in which he
says that Governor Tanner sent a per-
sonal representative to him and told
him that IL the better class OF citizens
would sign an agreement to the effect
that they would guarantee that there
would be no more loss Of life or riOtIng,
that the governor would remove the
troops Mayor Zimmerman told this
representative that the governor sent
the troops here without consulting the
citizens of cartervllle, that he could re-
move them the same way, but that as
long as the negroes remained at the
Brush mines, just so long might he ex-
pect to bear of trouble here.
Residents Of Herrin were halted last
night by guards near the Brush mines
and placed under arrest while on their
way home from Carterville. They were
taken to Marion this morning where
they are being guarded.
The residence of John Murphy, a
farmer living near here, was burglar
lied to-day, by parties wearing the uni
form Of the militia. The fact was re-
ported to Colonel Bennett ana he at
once ordered an investigation and one
of the guilty parties is under arrest.
Company F, of Mt. Vernon, sixty
strong, arrived to-day. Company B, Of
Newton. is expected to arrive tonight
or tomorrow morning. No further
trouble may be expected so long as the
military is here.
Lieutenant Lowden. with detail OF
soldiers, arrived at Marion. the county
seat of this county, at noon to-day in
charge Of eighteen union miners whom
he captured after midnight on the high
way north of Carterville. They were all
armed With guns and well supplied with
ammunition. When captured they were
In wagons and said they were returning
from Cartervllle to their homes at Her
rim, a mining town ten miles northwest
from here. They are charged with hav-
ing been part Of the armed mob which
had gathered around Brush's mine last
night before the troops arrived. States
Attorney Fowler has filed complaint
for murder against them.
Twenty.seven Rioters Arrrsted.
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, Sept. 1s.-Gover-
nor Tanner has had two messages from
Carterv!lle, to-day. The first came
from Colonel Bennett, in charge Of the
troops there. He reported all quiet and
said he feared no other outbreak. This
afternoon, message from Sheriff Gray
stated that twenty-seven Of the men
supposed to have been implicated in
yesterdays riot had been arrested,
charged with murder and had been
locked up in the county Jail at Marion.
He asked the governor for a detail of
soldiers to guard the Jail. The governor
Immediately wired Colonel Bennett to
furnish further detail from Company c,
Carbondale, and the men will guard the
prisoners from a possible attempt to
escape and to prevent outsiders liberia
ting them.