The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-14
Gilbert Twigg Shoots Wan
tonly Into Crowd.
ATTENDING BAND CONCERT
Dozen Shots Were Fired from
Shot Gun.
INJURED SCORE OF PEOPLE
Dead and Wounded Lay in
Lake of Blood.
MURDERER SHOT HIMSELF
Rambling Letter Left to the
Public.
MURDERER SHOT HIMSELF

The dead:
GILBERT TWIee, miller and thu
murderer.
OTIS CARTER.
STERLING RACE.
BOB BOWMAN.
DAWSON BILLiSTER.
The fatally injured:
Elmer Farnsworth, shot through
bowels.
J. 3. Storey, shot in bowels and hip
The wounded:
James Ciarkson, miller, shot in left
arm and spine.
Rea oliver, leader of the band, shot
twice in back and right arm.
Will, Couchman, shot in right arm.
Charles Comas, shot in arm.
Charles Beard, gIancing shot on
head.
Roy Davis, son of 3. H. Davis, pro-
prietor Of ST. james Hotel, shot in
neck, arm, shoulder and abdome.
Mrs. John Ballard, shot in neck.
Samuel Compton, proprietor OF the
street railway, shot in hip.
Mrs. Brooks, shot in right arm.
Claude Wagner and Clyde Reed,
members of band, flesh wounds.
Winfield was the Gene of the most ap-
paIIing shooting ARRAY in the history Of
Kansas when Gilbert Twigg, a miller,
shot down five people. fatally wounded
two mo-e and injured fifteen oilers.
The list of dead and injured are given
above. The shooting occurred a few
minutes before O'Clock. at the corner
of Ninth and Main streets. Caman's
band was giving the regular weekly con-
cert on the corner. when suddenly. with
out warning shot. the young man be
gan firing from the alley west of Main
street. He had a double-barrel shotgun
and fired a dozen shots into the crowd.
The revolver he turned on himself.
Two or three thousand people were
attending the concert, the streets were
pammed and during the intermission be-
tween the third and fourth numbers the
shooting occurred.
The young man was in the dark, behind
the Odd Fellows building, and suddenly
the shots rang out in rapid succession,
there being only a slight intermission
between the shotgun volley and that OF
the revolver The shotgun was loaded
with No. buckshot and they veritably
moved down the crowd within its range
Then followed the revolver bullet which
killed the murderer. The shooting was
done so quickly that the people hardly
knew what was happening until it was
all over.
DEAD AND WOUNDED IN HEAP.
The dead and injured were lying al
most in heap at the edge of the crowd.
great streams of blood pouring from
their wounds and causing theh streets
to truly run with blood. The screams
and writings of the injured and the
gasping OF those whose life was ended
by the bullets presented a terrible ap-
peacance under the chickering's Of the
street lamps.
The hundreds of people who witnessed
the shooting were terror stricken Wo-
men screamed and tainted, strong men
turned away from the sight paralyzed.
Every one was afrai dto move for several
minutes and the dead and wounded were
left in the lake of blood. Five people
lying dead in the middle OF the street.
Win almost 4 score Ol VAttSlS dbOON
them, presented scene that heggars
description and one that none Of those
who looked upon it will ever forget or
care TO witness again.
The people were so terror stricken that
for some time they gave no thought to
the perpetrator Of the deed. None had
seen him. All that was known was that
several had seen the flashes come from
the alley When the crowd came 10 their
senses some began caring for the wOu1d-
ed, while others began a search for the
murdered. They found him at the head
OF the alley lying in pool of his own
blood. with shotgun under him and
the revolver by his side.
For an hour after the shooting il was
not definitely known how many were
killed an dhow many were injured or
who the parties We're. Conflicting reports
came in as to the number killed and
injured and il was Il O'Clock before the
Eagle was able 10 ascertain the names
OF the dead and fatally injured.
The town was all excitement people
ran hither and thither. mothers and faith
ers ran from one undertaken TO another
and then to doctors Offices and the hos
pitels 10 find If their children or other
relatives were among the dead or in
5ured. Men and women rushed to ard
fro, knowing not what they did or where
they were going. Such a catastrophe.
% sudden without cause and Of such an
appalling nature was enough 10 para
lS-ze the courage Of the strongest Of men.
Gilbert Twigg. the man who did the
lawful work. is a miller in Winfield He
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