Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-02
CouId Not Remnin ana Li,e.

Could Not Remain and Live.
So fiercely did the fire burn that il
became evident that no human being
could live in the building, and picked
men from the police special squad and
soldiers stationed themselves about
the building in order to shoot down
the desperate as he attempted to leaTe
the house.
The D~esperad shot and Killed.
A young soldier named Adolph An
derson, a member of the Thirteenth
company of state militia, was one of
the first to see Charles as he ran down
the steps leading to the second story.
Charles ran aeros the yard and en-
tered the second Dol He fired sew
erai times at Anderson, and the latter,
who was armed with a Winchester
rife. shot the negro in the breast and
he fell and died Don afterward.
The FaIstans and the Dead Percy.
As soon as the negro fell numbers OF
persons, armed with Winchesters and
revolvers rushed in and fired into the
body. Charles was literally shot to
HH~~NS" Az ~ a NAA1 4G
was dead a mob entered the yard and
dragged the body into the street.
There the police and the mob emptied
their revolvers into it, while a son of
one of the murdered men, rushed up
and stamped the face beyond recog-
milton.
BOxers Want to Burn the Body.
There were then loud bowls that
the body should be taken to a vacaEt
square in the vicinity and publicly
burned. At this instant, however, a
big squad of police dashed up in a
patrol wagon. There were thousands
of persons co~ngregated in the vicinity,
and it seemed as if there would be a
clash between the officers and the
mob.
Safe in the Nergue.
The police seemed, however, to have
regained their courage, and they
promptly pushed the crowd aside,
picked up the body and threw it into
the patrol wagon.
The driver whipped up his horses,
and the wagon started off with 5000
people running after it and clamor-
ing for the cremation of the body of
the desperado.
The wagon was faster than the mob
and it ultimately made its way in safe
ty to police headquarters. There an
immense crowd had gathered, and
great difficulty was experienced in
taking the corpse of the negro from.
the wagon into the morgue.
The Dead BODY a shot Pouch.
When Charles body was stripped it
was found to have been literally LAGER
ated from head to foot by the bullets
fired into it.
More Negroes Found.
Shortly after the body of Charles had
been taken away, a report was circu-
lated that there were still some ne
groes in the burning building. The
square was quickly surrounded by a
guard of men with Winchesters, and a
special squad made its way into the
building. In a room which the fire had
not yet reached three negroes were
found dressed in women's clothes.
They were hustled out, and Immediate
ly sent to prison in a patrol wagon.
Resisted and Was Killed.
subsequently d IOuIIA lSSIO. d Ilu-
latto, was discovered in the building.
He made a desperate resistance against
being arrested, and while in the hands
of the police, was killed by a shot fired
from a pistol in the hands of one of
the d~isorderly mob that had congre-
gated in the vicinity.
Inonensfve Man Killed by II Mob.
Just about the time hat Charles
body reached the morgue the body of
an unknown negro who had been shot
and stabbed to death on Gallatin street
was carried in. This negro was pass
ing through the French market when
he was seen by a crowd of whites. The
latter were intensely excited by the
news of the killing of Porteus and 9TH
er officers, and they Immediately
mobbed him. The unknown negro ran
for his life, and the angry mob kept
at his heels, the crowd increasing ev-
cry minute. The negro finally succeed
ed in entering a house on Gallatin
street. He ran up stairs and jumped
from the gallery to the ground. Be
fore he could rise the mob shot and
stabbed him to death.