The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-17

! Orders were given to fire every building
into which negro had been driven.
w. I. jackson, street car conductor, }
nearing the house. was shot in the right
hip, presumably by Richardson.
negro cabman was hit in the hand by
stray bullet. s.s
Call Officer spradlin, approaching on his
bicycle, received a wound in the arm.
Negroes Shot to Pieces.
:. A main sewer which runs through this
part of the city was utilized by two Of
the negroes as possible means of escape,
but to no avail. The crowd had increased
until at least three thousand people. two
thousand of whom were armed, surrounded
the burning area. Soon from the mouth
of the sewer Milton Rosby, negro.
emerged. The fleeing negro ran to an
adjacent lot and in a minute he fell dead,
literally shot to pieces. 80.
The crowd of enraged citizens had
scarcely finished this work when another
negro was seen coming out of tho sewer.
He, too, made run for life, and man
aged to get into the back yard Of one Of
the neighboring homes, where, surrounded
by several head of cattle and hogs, he
was shot to fragments. -45 ~ -
All Negro Houses Burned.
The fire, which had been started by the
attacking party, spread rapidly and soon
the entire block of buildings composed OF
nearly all negro houses, were destroyed
The few negroes found in the vicinity
were arrested. Two Of them, Steve MIS-
bett and Jim Singleton, are believed to
be members Of Richardson's gang. The
police had great difficulty in taking them
through the eenraged people. mob Of
1000 surged around the patrol was gon, and
cried for the life of the men under arrest.
The officers, throwing their men into the
bottom OF the wagon, drew their revolvers
and drove as fast as possible. Twenty
minutes later they lodged their prisoners
in the Fulton county Jail. =
In less than an hour the block of wooden
houses was burned to the ground.
In woodshed in the rear of Richard
sons store was found a skull and near It
the steel barrel OF rife. It is believed
thatethe skull representa- all that is left
Of the negro who did the shooting.
The police believe they have arrested
f.all the negroes directly concerned In the
shooting szSsssssz zgs
| The rioting caused the utmost excite
ment, not only in the little suburb OF
Pittsburg, where it occurred, but all over
the city.
| j: The List of the Dead.
Four white men and three negroes are
dead and five white men and one negro
| wounded and an entire block Of BUILDINGS
burned as the result of the conflict The
| dead are: ts'=
ED BATTLE, a bailiff of Fulton county.
H. G. -ozBURN, policeman of Fulton
county. '.-t*.
THOMAS GRANT, a city policeman.
EDWARD CRABTREE, a city policeman.
WILL RICHARDSON, the negro desperate,
who killed these men.
MILTON ROsBY, a negro who attempted
| to escape from a sewer.
UNKNOWN NEGRO, killed in nearby
yard. :
The wounded are:
S. A. Kerlin, beaten by negroes. Ia !, =
1 W. A. Wright, county policeman, struck
in the left shoulder.
W. T. Jackson, street car man, hit By
bullet. .-
Owen Heard. county policeman. wounded
| in the arm
Call Officer spradlin, wounded in the thigh.
Unknown negro hackman, shot through the
| hand.
= The efforts of the police since the fight
have been directed towards cont rolling
the temper of the white men, who are
walking the streets of the suburb with
guns upon their shoulders and pistols in
their hands. r.. .,a..