The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-07
CARNAGE,
Blood Flows in the Streets of
Evansville, Ind.
State Soldiers Fire Into a Mob
of Citizens.
Continued to Shoot After Riot
ers Turned Back.
CASUALTIES ARE 81.
Six Dead and % Wounded, Four
Fatally.
More Troops Are Ordered Out
by HoOsier Governor.
Trouble Grew Out of Attempt
to Enter the Jail.
Trouble Grew Out of Attempt
to Enter the Jail.
BENT ON LYNCHING.
Mob Was Determined to Secure
Negro Prisoners.
Were I6 of Them in the Jail at
the Time.

Evansville Ind, July six shot dead
and twenty five injured, four fatally, is
the outcome of the race riots that have
caused a reign of terror in this city
during the past four days.
At 1890 last night the Evansville
company Of Indiana national guard, as
sisted by 200 special deputies sworn in
during the day, while guarding the
county jail in which were sixteen negro
prisoners, poured a deadly volley of
buckshot and bullets into a crowd of
several thousand people led by a hun
dred armed rioters which was pressing
them back amid jeers and threats, ac-
companied by stones and missiles.
When the smoke cleared away thirty
one wounded and dead bodies lay on the
pavements. There is a contention as to
who fired first, the soldiers or the riot
ers. That the troops were fired on is
proved by the fact that of the fallen
four were members of the company.
Their wounds were slight.
Following are the dead and wounded:
THE DEAD:
ELI WARD SCHIFFMANN, painter,
top of head blown off.
HAZEL ALTMAN. is years old.
daughter of Joseph H. Altman, shot in
the breast.
AUGUST JORDAN. 10. musician.
bullet wound in breast.
ED RUHL, %. laborer, shot through
body and head and killed instantly.
FRED KAPPLER. aged 10. shot in
the side.
UNKNOWN MAN. middle aged. shot
in the back.
FATALLY WOUNDED.
John Barnett. shot through the right
lung.
Calvin Hawkins, shot in abdomen, left
finger shot off.
John Cell, shot in the back.
Ernest Walters, shot in the back.
THE WOUNDED.
Fred Schmidt. driver Cook Brewing
company, shot in leg and arm.
Lee Hawley, laborer, shot in leg.
Robert Miller. shot in cheek not
Charles Presley. II, grocery boy. shot
through left wrist and also bullet
wounds in both heels.
Theodore BEEN, 20, shot in right side,
painful flesh wounds.
John Fares, As, shot in head and hip,
may die.
Albert Kaeussm. soldier. shot while
picking wounded rioters up, in right
arm, not serious.
Denny Phillips, gun shot wound in
arm and breast.
Union c. Smith. shot in arms and
Henry Smith, shot in the hips and
back.
b. Myers. wounded in right leg.
VIII Keller. shot in the thigh.
Mrs Joseph Altman. three shots In
the shoulder.
Joseph Altman, shot in face.
Robert Miller, wounded in the cheek.
Ben Hoffman, wounded in face and
leg, will lose eyesight-
Alvin Jones, shot in the back.
William Reece, wounds in face
G. H. Cook, slightly wounded.
Nelson Jaques, shot in face.
Charles Smith. hurt about the head.
ALL OVER IN A MINUTE.
The crowd angered by the presence
of the soldiers guarding the prisoners
was shouting it's determination to
again blow open the. jail and get the
negroes.
For a half hour or more the crush
of the mob against the line of soldiers
had grown worse The soldier citizens
begged the crowd to disperse and the
city officials back of the line of SOL
diers consulted with the comDany's
captain. There were many personal
encounters as the rioters pressed the
line. A stone was thrown. a soldier
fell a bayonet was thrust into the side
of a cursing rioter and the order to
fire was given.
It was all over in a minute. The mob
scattered and disappeared. The dead
and wounded were taken to homes aud
hospitals and the line, of soldiery re-
formed. All night the troops stood
around thes Jail while inside the negro
lection. At o'clock this morning un-
der orders from Governor Durbin the
Vincennes company of militia arrived
and relieved the Evansville troops who
lay down on the court house yard ana
slept on their arms. There was no
demonstration when the relief troops
arrived. There were still several hund~
red persons on the streets but no at
tack was made and the incoming
troops were not disturbed.
Negroes are leaving the city in
large numbers, and dozens of negro
families are camped in the country.
officials believe that there will be no
further outbreak although the utmost
vigilence will be maintained.
The New Albany and Terre Hautc
companies of militia have been ordered
ready to start for this city at once.