The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-08
DESPERADO
 KILLS FIVE Negro Uses Rifle With Terrible Effect. TUsCUMBIA THE SCENE
With Winchester VIII Key
 holds Defied the Town.
Sheriff Charles cassaway Among the Slain and His Son, Will Class away, is Not Expected
 to Live.

Charles Gassaway, P. A. Prout and Jesse Davis died last night from the wounds received in yesterdays battle with the negro. will Reynolds Will Gassaway is uot expected to live through the night The other wounded men are not consid- .red in dangerous condition. Prout vas buried this afternoon. Excitement Is still intense and some fear the end is not in sight.
 today. The same can be said of Shef- deld. At the former place. one mo- gro was killed this morning by prom ,nent butcher. His body was cut haif in wo with a meat knife. His name was richardson. He was expressing gratif1ca- ion over Will Reynolds's fiendish suc- cess as a marksman. and said that other white folks might look out for similar treatment. Great tension prevails here and no gath ering of negroes will be tolerated.
 The body of Reynolds is still exposed where he fell in a partially consumed state ,and hundreds have viewed the re- mains this morning. No attempt yet has been made for interment.
 Five dead, two others dying and three others wounded is the result of the dead iy fire by Will Reynolds. a desperate me- gro, formerly of Birmingham, who held d crowd at bay for four hours yesterday. defying arrest.
 The dead:
 Hugh Jones, shot through the head.
 Rob Wallace, shot through the body, Charles Gassaway. sheriff, shot through the abdomen. @ fr' Pat Prout. shot through the stomach.
 Jesse Davis of Sheffield.
 Wounded:
 WfI Gassaway. shot through the abdo- men; mortally wounded.
 James Payne.
 James Penney, shot through shoulder; only slightly wounded.
 Robert Patterson. shot through leg. Hugh Jones and Bob Wallace were killed amost instantly.
 Sheriff Gasssway died last night at l o'clock. Pat Prout died at 1l:So, and Jesse l,avfs died at F m. Will Gassa- Way is barely alive this morning. Payne, who was wounded, cannot survive the day. Finney's wound proved to be slight. After four hours maneuveriag on the ment of soldiers, the house ir which Rey- holds was hiding was burned and the negro, in attempting to escape, was rid dled with bullets and his body thrown i Into the flames, Curio fiends, i'll mad desire to secure some trophy of the Sun building and cut off the negros fingers and other parts of his body.
 The ,negro's only weapon was 45- caIiber Winchester rife, but so deadly and constant was his fire that every man who entered the open space surrouDding the hut in which he was barricadcd was either killed or wounded. Prout, who was first to advance, was felled by one of the negros bullets. and it was probably ar hour before his body could be recovered
 The settlement in which tho battle was fought is known as knardtown and Sheriff Gassaway went there about Il o'clock yesterday morning to arrest Rey- holds on a charge of obtaining goods un- der false pretenses. The officer was met by the negro. who immediately opened fire, nortally wounding MT. Gassaway. Will 5assaway. a deputy, was waiting about 300 yards away, and Reynolds turned the veanon cn him. He was mortalfy wounded.
 Within an hour every man in Tuscum- bia who could procure gun was in the neighborhood. but none dared to enter the open space around the negros cabin Dynamite was procured and thrown at inc hut, but without effect. At o'clock Captain Simpson of the Wheeler Rifles, arrived with F guns and 1000 cartridges, which were distributed among twelve picked men.
 The company was stationed around the house at considerable distance and 1t was riddled with bullets. The negro had taken refuge in a cellar. however. and returned the fire, killing Jones and wounding' Penney. A large quantity of coal oil was then brought to the sherif' s bcadduarters and the house adjoining the one in which Reynolds was barricaded was set on fire
 Fuly 1000 persons from Sheffield and Florence were here and every surgeon in the two towns was pressed into ser vice. Several horses were killed in the fight
 Though three of their houses were hurned in the effort to reach Reynolds, there is no danger of an uprising among the negroes.
 Another Attempt on Trepoff.