The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-04-11
SHOT THREE MEN 10 DEATH
DEED OF DESPERATE NEGRO.
Tie Was Resisting Arrest When He
Opened Fire With n Rine-He in
Turn Was RiddIed with Bullets
and His BODY Thrown Into IA 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, a desperate negro.
The dead are: Hugh Jones, shot
through the head; Bob Wallace, VIII
Reynolds.
Fatally wounded: Sheriff Charles
Cassaway, shot through arm and alb
domen; viii 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 the 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 a 45-calbre Winchester. The
negro was in turn riddled and thrown
into a fire.
Sunday morning at II o'clock Sher-
iff Cassaway went to negro settle
ment, "Kardstown," to arrest Will
Reynolds for obtaining merchandise
under false pretenses. The officer was
net by the negro, who opened fire
with a Winchester, wOunding the sher-
if and Immediately fired upon the
deputy. VIII Cassaway, who was some
300 yards away. MORALLY wounding
him.
AS soon as possible. every man in
town who could procure a 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 l o'clock, Captain
Simpson of the Wheeler rifles arrived
with 10 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 adj
Joining that in which the negro was
located were fired. About O'Clock
the house in which the negro was To-
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,
I l.,
grabbed the body and threw it into
the burning building. Wallace. who
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 Fal5ner were the men who fired
the building.
Relic seekers cut off the negro's
fingers and such parts Of the body as
could be procured.
Three houses we're burned in the
effort to reach the negro.
Several horses were killed in the
battle. 1t is rumored that the sheriff
and his brother can not live. So dead
ly was the Negroes aim that it was pos
sibly an hour before the body of Proul
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
today was intense, but there is no fear
Of an uprising among the negroes. Full
ly 5000 people from Florence and Shelf
field were here and every surgeon in
the two towns was pressed into ser
vice.