The age-herald., 1900-07-24
Elijah Clark Taken from His Cell and Hanqed to
 Limb Near Dallas.

mob then began to make preparations to break into the jail.
 Jail Broke Open
 The front door was burst open and a rush made for the line of deputies in the hall. The deputies opened fire and one man, Will Vining, an electric light trim mer. was shot in the shoulder. This checked the mob for a while and the lead CTS decided to go about accomplishing their object in some other way. Several pounds of dynamite was secured and placed against the walls of the jail.
 The Sheriff was again asked to surrender the keys or have the jail blown up, but he refused again. Prominent citizens, among them Captain Milton Humes, Cap tain Daniel Coleman, John H. Wallace and others, made speeches in an endeavor to pacify the mob, but they were hooted down.
 Shortly after noon large stick of dyna- mite was thrown up the main stairway of the jail. The explosion damaged the stairs and broke every window in the front part of the building The Sheriff was warned to come out with his deputies and pEison- CTS, but he again firmly refused.
 -smokel the sheI fir Out
 The mob then made plans to smoke the officer out of the jail.
 A barrel of oil, a large amount of tar and several bushels of feathers were placed on the cement floor of the jail and set afire. A suffoeating smoke arose and the Sheriff compelled to take refuge in the third floor of the jail, the deputies and guards seeking the remote corners. At this june ture Cigcnit Judge II. c. Speak appeared on the tail steps and begged the crowd to dispersel He read a telegram from Gov ernor Johnston instructing them to hold special term of court and try the prisoner immediately. The mob held off again and the jail was quiet for an hour.
 Judge Speak repaired to the county court house and. organized a grand jury, which eratien, charging Elijah Clark with rape. The trial was set for Wednesday or Thurs day.
 At o'clock the mob began to fire up tar and feathers again, and another stifling smoke was raised. Chief of Police Over ton noted Sheriff Fulgham's absence from his window on the third floor, and fearing that he had been smothered, he dashed up
 
 most overcome by the smoke.
 Oscar" he said. you must get out of here, oisyou will die."
 Wiling De at His Post
 ''Go back, Dave," replied the sheriff; T must stay here and protect this man. I am willing to die doing my duty"
 Chief Overton compelled the sheriff to come out with him, and led him to the city hall Tonight the sheriff is in a serious condition. When the sheriff came out the mob had no opposition in the jail, and took immediate possession. The negro rapist was in a modern steel cage, and there was no way to get him out except by breaking the lock-
 This was a hard job, and required an hours work with -chissels and sledge- hammers, Jailer Connolly offered the key but it was refused The mob continued their work, and soon brought the prisoner out.
 Before coming on the street one of the mob mounted the j%l steps and said: Now, gentlemen, y5u must put up your guns We don't want any one to fire a shot, because we don't want ahy blood Dallas, and if no one interferes no one will be hurt" The prisoner was brought out by a guard of twenty men with rifles. The crowd grew to two thousand persons within a few miputes and marched out to Dallas, one