The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-27

TO go to their homes and places of
business and remain there They were
warned also and advised not to assem-
bic or idle about the streets. The Do
lice were ordered TO diSperse all crowds
and to arrest all Obstreperous and dis
orderly persons. AS a result of the
proclamation, tonight few persons We're
found on the streets.
In order to prevent the miscellaneous
distribution of arms the mayor ordered
the closing up of the gun stores and.
early in the day, for the better preSer-
walton of the public peace, issued orders
to the police to close up every saloon in
the city
At the various exchanges today the
wish was expressed that the Associated
Press might make it public To the world
that the present condition was one sin
cerely deprecated and having the sup
port OF none of the conservative ele-
ments of the communit-
Events of Previous Night.
The movement last night started
from gathering of men at the
Lee statue. corner of St. Charles ave
nue. and Howard street Being ordered
TO diSDerSe, the crowd moved up- St
Charles street, gathering force as II
went, and gradually becoming infIamed
10 the point Of desperation. 1t was not
until after they had stopped in NOrri-
son square on Washington avenue and
Franklin street. near the scene of the
assassination Of Captain Day and Of
ficer Lamb that they listened to a
speech from man haiIing from Ken
ner. and then started OFT to WayIay the
negroes Most of the cOiOred DopuIa-
ton had taken warning from the ex-
element of the night before and kent
indoors, but there We're some return
ing to their homes from work. and il
was one of these who was the first vic
tim.
It was in a crowded Henry CLAW ave
nue. car when the mob saw him They
rushed for him and dragged him out.
hrlng one shot into the car. He turned
out TO be Alex Huffman. a Pullman car
porter, and he was badly used uD. He
was cut and shot and beaten over the
mead. There was another negro with
him IN the car, who hid under the seat,
and after the car had started they dis
covered him, but could not catch it.
J. ClunOy, the conductor of a Peters
avenue car, was shot in the foot and
the car riddled with bullets
F. G. Davis, ghe mOtorlnan on the
same car, was shot in the foot
FRANK Shepherd, white man. who
was IN the crowd, got a bullet through
his right arm.
Stab, Shoot and Rob.
Coming down to jackson avenue. thew
met L p Sanders, the cOlOred DOrra~
OF Post < BOwleS' Insurance agency.
de had heard the indiscriminate shoot
ing and stepped out of his gate TO see
what it was about He stepped into
the arms Of the mob and thew made
short work Of him They stabbed him
shot him in the hack and took his watch
away from him. They left him for
dead.
A dozen or more of the mob went oub
further into the rear Of town and met
negress named Esther Fields standing
IN her door, and brutally beat her.
Inc main crowd continued on down
town, heading for the parish prison.
They We're met d block away by a.
squad of police. who stoned them.
They then began breaking into the
secondhand stores on Rampant street
IN that neighbOrhOOd. hunting for arms
ana ammunition The police made a
demonstration and drove them off.
After lingering around Raunarb
street for an hour the mob divided. one
section going down town and the other
starting back up town. The latter
crowd started for the new basin in the
vicinity of the Illinois Central depot. as
the most popular rendezvous for ne
grOes.
Before starting they INDUCED in a lit
tie pistol play and wounded Oswald
McMahon, a 16-year-Old boy, in the
leg.
The boy had been following the
crowd. On the way UP they went
through the POydras market and found
a negro Waterman. George Morris,
whom they proceeded TO chase through
the market, shooting him as he ran.
When he fell with two shots in the
back, one member of the mob stabbed
him to finish him, and he nearly did
so.
Joseph Deeds, a white man. was hit
during the indiscriminate shooting in
the POydraS market The IaWIess
throng searched the vicinity of the ba-
sin thoroughly and, failing to find any
one, walked out towards FranuIy
street, where they passed a negro Dan
White, rOuStabOut, and shot him in
the right wrist
Commit Wholesale Burglary.
About o'clock they headed for Canal
street, and on the way looted two sec
ond-hand stores. They We're trying TO
break into one place and fired several
shots into it, with the result that they
wounded one Of their own crowd, John
DOran, who got bullet in the leg. They
moved on down to Canal street. and at
the corner of Rampant started to break
into another secondhand store, but a
patrol wagon full Of police came up and
they desisted- They stood there for
half an hour, and then gradually melt
ed away.
The downtown mob did terrible exc
cution and kept up its fiendish work
until $3.50 O'Clock. A notorious charac-
ter took the lead and they headed for
the neighbOrhOOd Of Franklin and Gus
tom House streets. They found no ne
grOeS and were down down VilIoc street
towards some negro novels when they
grOeS were going down VillOc street
car They halted the car, pulled the
trolley Off ordered about twenty pas
SengerS of and then murdered the
black man. He was dragged out and
filled with lead. being instantly killed.
He was evidently a laborer- His name
is not known.
Beat an Old Man.
They moved on out in the vicinity Of
the old basin on T0uloUz street and ter
roriZed that neighbOrhOOd. but evident
~ found no negroes. Then they went
down as far as Kelerec and Dauphin
streets, where they found an ole negro,
IS years old, named Baptist F'ileaU,
whom they beat almost to death.
Coming up town again, they met Il
negro on Decatur street. whom they
beat into an insensihle condition and
left for dead. He vas discovered an
hour later and died shortly after. He
had been pulled from a meat wagon
which he was driving 10 the French
market
They brutally assaulted another negro