Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-10
A DESPERATE BLACK MAN.
He Killed Two Men and Wounded
Seven While Fighting
Against Arrest.
THREE OF THE WOUNDED CAN NOT LIVE.
Three Houses Burned In an Effort to
Smoke the Murderer Out-The Des-
perado Finally RiddIed with Bullets
and His Body Thrown Into a Burning
Building.

Birmingham, Ala, April IA spe-
cial to the Age-Herald from Tuscum-
bia, Ala, says:
Three men are dead. three mortal
ly wounded and four seriously wound
ed as the result of Sheriff Gassaway
attempting, yesterday, to arrest VIII
Reynolds, a desperate negro. The
dead are:
Hugh Jones, shot through head.
Bob Wallace.
Will Reynolds.
The fatally wounded are:
Sheriff Charles G~assawa.y, shot
through the arm and abdomen.
Will Gassaway, shot through alb
domen.
P. A. Prout, shot through stomach.
Seriously wounded: - Payne,
shot through chest; Jim Finne.y, shot
through right shoulder; Robert Pat
t~erson, shot through leg; Jesse Davis,
shot through jaw.
All the casualties, except the death
of Reynolds, are the result f the
deadly fire of Reynolds with IA As cal
iber Winchester. The negro was, i'll
his turn, riddled and thrown into u
fire.
Yesterday morning at II o'clock
Sheriff Gassaway went to a negro SET
tlement, "Knardtown,' to arrest Rey-
nolds for obtaining goods und, II false
pretense. The officer was met by the
negro, who opened fire with a Win
chester, wounding the sheriff and inn
mediately firing upon the deputy,
viii Gassaway, who was ONT three
hundred yards away, mortally wound
ing him.
AS soon as possible, every man in
town who could procure a gun vas in
the neighborhood, but owing to the
within the open space.
Dynamite was procured, and the
house in which the negro was barri-
caded was fred upon, but to no ef-
feet.
At n o'clock Capt. Simpson. of The
Wheeler Rifles, arrived, with IL guns
and 1000 cartridges, which were dis
tributed among ~ picked men. This
company was stationed around the
house, and riddled it, but the negro
had taken refuge in the %.ellar, and
returned the fire, killing Jones ana
wounding Finney.
Coal oil was then procured. and
after four hours of hard work he
houses adjoining that in which the
negro was located were fred.
About eight o'clock the house in
fired by the Wheeler Rifles, who had
fired by the Wheeler rifles, who had
arrived IN the scene. The negro took
refuge in a shed, and opened fire,
killing Wallace and wounding Davis.
but the people and some militlamcn
riddled the negro, and the crowd.
numberingsome one hundred, grabbed
the body and threw it in the burning
building.
Wallace, who was killed, was clos
ing in on the negro, who shot him
through the abdomen. His body fell
in the burning debris. but was re-
covered. Davis, Wallace and Falkner
were the men who fired the building.
Relic seekers cut off the Negroes
fingers and such parts of the body as
could be procured. Three houses
were burned in the effort to reach the
negro.
Several horses We're killed i'm The
battle. 1t is reported that the sl,er:
if and his brother can not live. So
deadly was the negroes aim that it
was possibly an hour before the body
of Prout could be recovered. Not a
shot fired by Reynolds failed to
count when those he was firing upon
could be plainly seen by him.
The excitement is intense. but there
is no fear of an uprising among the
naprnns