Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-07-30
TROOPS AT DANVILLE
RESULT OF RIOT is TWO DEAD
AND TWENTY-FIVE WOUNDED,

Soldiers Are Cursed and Commissary
Department Has Trouble in Get.
ting Restaurants to ServS Meals.
Bayonets Used to Scatter Crowds,
Danville, ILL.,. July 27.-Two killed
and twenty-five wounded, the police
station wrecked, the county Jail with
few OF its windows left unshattered,
the city in the hands of the state
troops, and feeling of uneasiness
and dread prevailing everywhere, is
the situation left by the race riots Of
Saturday night and Sunday morning.
The revised list of dead and injured
is as follows:
The dead: John D. Metcalf, negro,
lynched and burned; Henry Cater
man, killed by negro Metcalf.
The injured: John Devore, right
thigh mangled by load OF buckshot;
Adam Murray. shot in forehead; C..
Mobaker, buckshot in right leg and
arm; Edward Hart, shot in hand; A.
Swafford, injured internally; Fred
Lorenz, buckshot in legs; W. Lattern,
buckshot in both arms; four unknown
negroes, beaten into insensibility by
the mob; unknown woman, carried
away in buggy after she was seen
to fall; ten unknown men.
After daylight appeared there were
restless crowds on the streets. Hun
dreds Of farmers poured into the city
and each surrounding town continued
to swell the crowd. Great unrest and
threatening attitude was reported
from Westville, five miles away.
Wilson, the negro assailant OF Mrs.
Burgess, was secretly taken from the
county Jail, but was returned later
Four companies Of militia arrived
from Springfield. The troops marched
to the market house, opposite the Jail,
and camped. Streets were cleared
and the threatening attitude of the
crowds disappeared. One hundred
senunels are patrolling the streets in
the immediate vicinity Of the Jail.
Sheriff Whitlock said, in giving his
version of the shooting into the mob:
After l saw from the Jail that the
mob was determined to attack went
to the veranda and spoke to them. AS
l stepped into the window, two bull
lets were fired, one striking the wall
back of me- fired two shots in the
air. Some one shouted that l was
only blufting and was shooting blank
cartridges. warned the mob that I
would resist an attack on the Jail with
powder and lead. There was another
shot from the mob and it surged for
ward. | then fired shot from my
shotgun into their legs. This drove
them back, but they returned mo-
ment later to the attack of the front
OF the door. AS the leaders were com.
ing with the rail to batter down the
walls, shot along the rail to make
them drop it. This accounts for sc
many being shot in the hands and
arms. l fired eight or ten shots In
ALL"
Leading citizens say the outbreak
has been expected for long time, as
bitter feeling has existed for sew.
CA al SCctlS bSl"SSu luC uSS1OSS anu q
certain class of white persons.
The feeling against the soldiers is
noticeable. The commissary depart
ment had much trouble getting res
taurants to serve meals. Many re
fused to feed the soldiers. Crowds
gathered during the day near the lines
and cursed the soldiers. They were
scattered by bayonets in several In
stances.
Metcalf the negro killed ant
burned, had lived at Evansville for the
past two years and was a recent ref
ugee from that city, where he partici
pated in the riots Of few weeks ago
He met his fate while the mob wa.
on the way to lynch Wilson.