Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-07-09
SOLDIERS FIRE INTO
AN EVANSVILLE MOB
Seven Are Killed Outright ano
Dozen More Are Ser
iously Wounded.
ATTACKED THE MILITIA
A Mob Of Thousand Tried to Force The
MIlittamen Back and Storm the
Jail and Are Met With
Rain Of Bullets.

Evansville, Ind. July g. Following
four days of rioting and general law
hssness this city saw the most terri
BILE of Its experiences with rioters.
Seven persons are dead and fourteen
are known to be injured. with at least
that number more thought to be hurt.
The dead:
EDWARD sCHIFFMAN. painter.
top OF heed blown off.
HAZEL ALTMAN. 10 years old.
daughter Of Joseph II. Altman. shot IN
breast.
JOHN BARRETT, shot in right lung.
AUGUST JORDAN, shot through
The body and head.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED MEN. lying
In front of the Jail.
The wounded:
Fred Schmidt, may die.
Fred Happier may die.
Es let: s5sS M slt:,.. ii
Theodore BEEN.
John Fares, may die.
Albert Kaeuss, soldier, shot while
pscking up wounded rioters.
Six other rioters We're seen to fall
but got away before their names We're
learned.
AT " CHICK more ufS Thought " w
hurt. -Four members of Company AZ
First regiment, received bullet ana
gunshot wounds on the body; one OF
them was shot through the shoulder
another through the ankle and the 9th
err two received slight scratches
Two deputy siieriffs are slightly
wounded.
Fired Into Dense Mob.
AT 10:30 O'Clock the members of Com
pany A, First regiment, Indiana Ma
tional Guard, after q day of vigilance
IFS under Sheriff Chris krutz. fired
point blank into a mob of 1000 men
gathered on Fourth, Division and Vine
street. surrounding the VanderDurg
county Jail and attempting its capture.
From O'clock this morning until
the hours of tonight's catastrophe the
crowd surged about the Jail, calling the
with stones and berating the deputies
who guarded the Jail.
At O'Clock the mob gradually be-
came more and more excited, the man
ifestations of uneasiness more fire.
Quent. and at 10 o'clock 1t was seen
that nothing could prevent an assault
on the Jail
At 1880 O'Clock the rioters pressed
slowly forward and innocent onlook-
ers and the curious followed.
Tried to Force Back Soldiers. /
Slowly they forced the militiamnn
back toward the Jail until the alleyway
between Division street and the stone
building was reached. Then the lead
ers. with q bicycle in front as a shield
to the bayonets of the soldiers at
tempted to enter the alley and storm
the allcyway entrance.
Captain Blum of the National Guard
company ordered charge on the riot
ers. Gradually the crowd was forced
back, the soldiers using their bayonets
and butts of their guns.
Suddenly rioter fell. A soldier
tried to drag him to his feet, but before
he could he was assaulted by q rioter.
Stones and boulders began to fly
through the air. A soldier was struck
with q rock and fell. A rioter was
knocked down with a gun, and then II
shot was fired. The shot started flu
SHADE of muslsetry and shotgun fire
from the defenders of the Jail and
scattered return fire from the rioters
Fully 900 shots We're fired from the
Jail windows. the court house steps
Immediately opposite, and by the SOL
dielss on the streets.
No one knows who fired the first
shot The soldiers claim 1t was the
rioters, while the rioters make no claim
and refuse to talk about it.