The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-25
DOWIE'S MEN
WERE TARRBD.
Mansfield Mob Gets in Its Work
Once More.
POLICE FINALLY RESCUE THEN
After They Had Been Escorted to a Buggy
Works, Disrobed and smeared
with Most Dtlectabie
Mixture,

Mixture.
Mansfield, Sept. 24.--Exciting scenes
were enacted in the Dowie rioting be-
fore the majority of citizens were awake
Sunday morning, and two Dowie elders
had been taken by a mob, tarred, and
paraded over the city before many peo-
pie knew that the trouble was on. AL
| though 1t had been announced from
Chicago that two or more Of the church
would be here Sunday, for whom pro-
lection had unavailingly been asked by
Overseer Piper of the governor through
the sending of state troops, the local
| authorities had not been advised of the
time of the arrival of the visiting eld-
ers, and no arrangements had been
made for their reception.
For number of Sundays past the
| elders have been coming about the mid
| die of the forenoon, and their arrival
was expected at that hour Sunday, but
| they came In from the west on the Erie
| road at 6.35 a. m. The two victims
selected for the sacrifice this time by
Overseer Piper, Of Chicago, were Elder
Ephriam Basinger, of Bluffton, o., it
being his fifth consecutive Sunday trip
to this city, and Elder Silas Moot, of
Lima, who was forcibly deported from
the city six weeks ago Sunday. When
the elders alighted from the train about
so men were congregated around the
depot.
REFUSED A CONVEYANCE.
The elders walked toward a cab, but
when ringleaders of the mob called to
the driver not to accept the men as
passengers, he refused to carry them,
and they started to walk up town to-
gether. They were followed by a con-
stantly increasing crowd, and when they
had gone about half a mile, and were
within few rods of the center of the
city, they were seized by the mob and
hurried off to the Richland buggy
works, half mile from the Union de-
pot, where a large kettle Of tar, evil
IDENTIFY prepared in advance for the oc-
casion, was in readiness. The elders
were handled roughly on the trip to
the buggy factory, and Elder Moot, who
Is said to have offered some resistance
to the indignities offered him, was
struck a cruel blow over the eye, which
closed it and discolored the flesh around
Arrived at the factory the elders were
stripped of their raiment and complete
ly covered with tar, the mixture being
rubbed into their hair and boards. When
the tarring was completed the victims
were reclothed, so far as the torn con-
dition of their raiment would permit
They were paraded a mile or two over
the city streets, and taken to the Leiby
residence where the Dowie elders were
mobbed last Sunday while Zion services
| AI.r al nrr
requested to make speeches, and at the
command of a mob ringleader to Offer
prayer being adjured to pray for a
saloon, the business of which was de-
clared to be right.
The mob continued this sort of thing
for about two hours, until the city Off
cials, having been apprised, the mem
bers of the night police force who hat
gone off duty at o'clock, were sum
moned, and, with chief of police ant
the one day policeman, reinforced by
: the mayor, started after the rioters.
POLICE RESCUE THE VICTIMS.
| The mayor and the police met the
!, mob and the victims at the corner Of
!, Main and Bloom streets, where thu
. elders were taken in charge by thu
! police and taken to the city prison
where the officers and others scrub
bed the tar off their bodies and physicl
ans were summoned to investigate thu
injuries of the elders, which were found
not to be serious. New clothing wa!
secured for the elders to take the place
of that portion of their own which wal
unwearable, and they were made a!
comfortable as possible. At noon, es
corted by the mayor, the sheriff, ant
a number Of policemen, the elders wer'
, taken to the Union depot and PLACED
on a westbound Pennsylvania passen
, ger train, while a crowd of thousan,
. people hooted and cheered.
About II o'clock Sunday morning, L
A. Fisher, a groceryman and boarding
house keeper at Crestline,s who, as N
explained 1t, came here to see wha
trouble might occur, was set upon by |
mob and accused of being a Dowieite
He was rescued by bystanders, hustled
into a street car and taken to the cit,
jail for protection and was sent ou
, of the city later in the day.
Last night several mobbing parties
. from the city went to the homes o
several country members Of the Zio'
church under the impression that Dowi'
elders were In hiding there. The sheriff
was summoned to disperse the rioters
but arrived after the houses had beer
: searched by the mobbers, who fount
, no elders.