The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1902-04-12
SHOT THREE MEN 70 DEATH
DEED OF DESPERATE NEGRO.
He Was Resisting Arrest When He
Opened Fire With a Rihe-He In
Turn Was Riddled with Bullets
and His Body Thrown Into q Fire
5000 People Engaged.

Birmingham, Ala. April IA dis
patch from Tuscumbia; Ala, says:
Three men are dead, three more
slightly wounded and four seriously
wounded as the result of Sheriff Cas-
saway attempting to arrest Will Reyn-
olds. desperate negro.
The dead are: Hugh Jones, shot
through the head; Bob Wallace, Will
Reynolds.
Fatally wounded: Sheriff Charles
Cassaway, shot through arm and ab-
domen; Will Cassaway, shot through
abdomen; P. A. Proul, shot through
stomach.
Seriously wounded: - Payne,
shot through the chest; Jim Finney,
shot through the right shoulder; Rob.
ert Patterson, shot through tho leg:
Jesse Davis. shot through the jaw.
All the foregoing casualties except
the death of Reynolds himself are the
result Of the deadly fire of Reynolds
with 45-calibre Winchester. The
negro was in turn riddled and thrown
into fire.
Sunday morning at IL o'clock Sher-
iff Cassaway went to negro settle
ment, "Kardstown," to arrest Will
Reynolds for obtaining merchandise
under false pretenses. The officer was
met by the negro, who opened fire
with a Winchester, wounding the sher.
if and Immediately fired upon the
deputy, VIII Cassaway, who was some
900 yards away, mortally wounding
him.
AS soon as possible, every man in
town who could procure gun was in
the neighborhood, but owing to the
location none dared to venture within
the open space. Dynamite was pro-
cured and the house in which the
negro was barricaded was fired upon
but to no effect. At o'clock, Captain
Simpson of the Wheeler rifles arrived
with 12 guns and 1000 cartridges
which were distributed among twelve
picked men. The company was sta
toned around the house and riddled
it., but the negro had taken refuge in
the cellar and returned the fire, killing
Jones and wounding Finney. Coal oil
was then procured, and after four
hours of hard work, the houses ad-
Joining that in which the negro was
located were fired. About o'clock
the house in which the negro was 10.
Gated was fired by the Wheeler rifles,
who had arrived on the scene.
The negro took refuge in a shed and
opened fire, killing Wallace and
wounding Davis, but the people and
some militiamen riddled the negro
} and the crowd numbering 1000 people
grabbed the body and threw 1t into
the burning building. Wallace, whs
was killed, was closing in on the ne
gro who shot him through the body
His body fell in the burning debris
but was recovered. Davis. Wallace
and Falkner were the men who fired
the building.
, Relic seekers cut off the negrO'i
fingers and such parts of the body a:
could be procured.
Three houses were burned in thu
effort to reach the negro.
Several horses were killed In thu
, battle. It is rumored that the sheriff
: and his brother can not live. So dead
4 ly was the negro's aim that it was pos
h sibly an hour before the body of Prou
A could be recovered. Not shot fire.
: by Reynolds failed to count whel
. those he was firing upon could b.
! plainly seen by him. The excitemen
today was intense, but there Is no fea
of an uprising among the negroes. Ful
\ ly 5000 people from Florence and Shei
field were here and every surgeon II
= the two towns was pressed int sci
vice.