The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-28
THE MOBSTORMS THE JAIL
Several Men Wounded, Two or More
Fatally---Building Wrecked
Threats to Fxterminate
Colored Company
Barricaded in
Armory.
Armory.
(By the Associated Press. }

DouNiIS, lliS., July SO.-tHio Sity 10 III
the throes of a race war. Two negroes
have been killed and burned and several
beaten by mob which has possession of
the city and sets the power of the au-
, thOrities at naught. In an attack upon
the Jail three of the mob were wounded,
two it is believed, fatally. Later the city
prison was wrecked by the mob, which
dragged forth to his death James Wilson,
a negro who had confessed to brutal
assault on the wife of farmer at Alvon,
Ills, just north of here. This was the
second of the two negroes lynched.
A list of the dead and wounded follows:
The dead:
]. ID. MAYFIELD, Evansville, Ind, ne
gro, lynched and burned by the mob.
HENRY GATTERMAN. Danville, Ills,
white shot dead by Mayfield.
JAMES WILSON, negro, beaten and
trampled to death, his body burned.
Fatally wounded
Adam Merry, white, shot through the
head by volley from Jail.
Seriously wounded:
Patrolman Charles Lopp, dubbed on the
head while defending Mayfeld.
Patrolman William Leverenz, badly in
jured internally by mob's battering ram
while defending Mayfield.
Fred Lorenz, shot three times in the
leg in attack on Jail.
Mince Mobacker, shot in attack on jail.
- Laid, shot in attack Jail.
Thomas Bell. shot in chest in attack
on Jail.
H. Hines, white, shot in neck and
shoulders by volley from Jail.
otto Heinke, white. shot in arm.
Ben Rich. negro, badly beaten by mob.
----FOur unknown negroes badly injured by
the mob. -
The Mayficld negro met his fate while
the mob was on the way to lynch Wilson.
The angry throng was passing down East
Main street when the negro became IN
volved in an alteration with some of ITS
members They started after him and he
pulled a gun firing into the crowd.
Henry Gatterman, young butcher, WHO
has recently returned from Fortress Mon
roe. fell MORALLY wounded and expired in
a few seconds. The negro turned and fled,
but was caught by the officers within
a block of the scene of the tragedy and
hurried to the police station with the mob
in hot pursuit, temporarily diverted from
their march to the county jail
The officers with their prisoner. took
refuge in the city building, barrlcadlng
themselves behind the door of one of the
Offices. They could not check the mob,
however, for it secured long pole and
tried to batter down section OF the
wall and the door, both OF which were
very thin. On account OF the over
whelming numbers of the mob 1T was use
less for the officers to resist. The negro
was seized and rushed to the spot where
he had shot Gatterman. 1t was the work
of an instant to throw rope around ms
neck and swing him up to the nearest
telephone pole. The mob did not delay
long. but waited to see that their victim
was dead. The life was slowly strangled
out and he was left hanging. while the
mob proceeded to the county jail. The
officers hope to save the second negro by
some ruse.
Wilson, it is charged, went to the farm
house while the woman was alone and
told her he was hungry. While she was
getting him something to cat he entered
tho kitchen door and seized her. He
fed. leaving her half dead. Afterward
she managed to crawl to the nearest farm
house where che told the story. posse
of officers started in pursuit OF the negro
and when Wilson was captured ne was
hurried to the county Jail to prevent
lynching There the negro confessed
Three other negroes have been attacked
by members of the mob and severely
beaten. One of them is named Ben Rlcn
and the other two are said to be refugees
from Evansville, Ind.
Some negroes are arming themselve
and others are preparing for fight
The mob changed its mind before attack
ing the jail and went back and cut down
Mayfeld's body. They rushed 1t to the
rublic square and burned it In bonfire
hacking it to pieces with knives as II
burned.
Then they charged the Jail and the sher
iff and deputies, fired woundlng seVera
members of the mob, some fatally.
The mob repulsed, sent to neighbor
ing mining camp for dynamite and PROB
ABLY will attack the Jail again. The mot
is Infatuated and threatens to lynch the
sheriff and his deputies, also the negro
turnkey in the jail.
While waiting for the men VINO were
expected to bring the dynamite the MOI
marched up and down In front oil the 1al
stoning it and firing shots at random.
About a half hour after the message tol
the dynamite was sent telephone message
came from Nimrod, a little town half wa!
between Westvillc and Danville sayln
that one of the men had been STOPPED
there by citizens who had hurriedly Sc
out from Danvlle to intercept him. The.
took from him large quantity of dyna
mite. He is believed to be on the Wa
here
The entire reserve police force, number
ing about 20 has been called out and this
NTH Whit
arms the garrison at the Jail Wilson
erviewed in the Jail &c said h