The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-27
RUIN is IN TRACK
OF THE RACE RIOT
AT DANYILLE, ILL.
Two Killed and Twenty-Five In
jured in the Outbreak, Jail
and Police Stations Wrecked
City Controlled by Troops.

1 DANVILLE, ILL.,, July 26.-Two kill.
ed 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 a feeling of uneasiness and
dread prevailing everywhere, is the
situation left by the race riots Of last
revised list of dead and injured from
last nights catastrophe is as follows:
The Dead.
JOHN q. METCALF, negro, lynched
and burned
HENRY GATTERMAN, killed by negro
Metcalf.
The Injured:
John Devore, right thigh mangled by
load of buckshot.
Adam Murray, shot in forehead. will
recover.
BicknelI. buckshot In right leg.
Clement Mobaker, buckshot in right leg
and arm.
Edward Hart. shot in right hand.
A. Swafford, injured internally.
Fred LorenZ, buckshot in legs.
w. Lattern, buckshot in both arms
Harry Rennick, of Taplin, Ill, buck
shot in left foot and leg.
Two unknown men wounded In the
arms and hands with buckShot (RefuSed
to give nameS.)
Henry Slade, buckshot in left side.
Two unknown men, one shot in left arm
and the other in the hand. (Refused tc
give names.)
Unknown young man, wound in head.
(Refused to give name.)
-Four unknown negroes, beaten into in
sensibility by the mob.
Unknown woman carried away in a
buggy after she was seen to fall.
II. Hines, shot in neck.
Otto Heinke, shot In arm.
Many of the injured are at the hos
pital. Arrangements are making for
the funeral of Henry Gatterman.
Troops Arrive.
After daylight appeared this morn
| ing there were restless crowds in the
streets. Hundreds of farmers throng-
ed to Danville and each surrounding
| town continued to swell the crowd.
! Many miners were seen in the streets.
Great unrest and a threatening atti-
| tude was reported from Westville, five
| miles away. Early in the morning
| Wilson, the alleged negro assailant of
| Mrs. Burgess, was secretly taken from
the county Jail, but was returned
| shortly after
| Four companies of militia arrived
this morning from Springfield. Com
panies A, /, B and III, of the Seventh
Illinois infantry were sent in reply to
urgent requests Sent at midnight to
state officers. The troops marched to
| the market house opposite the Jail and
| encamped.
| Streets were cleared and the threat
| ening attitudes of the crowd disap-
| peared. There were sullen threats
heard, but no attempt at an outbreak
| was manifested during the day. To-
| night 100 sentinels are patrolling the
| streets in the immediate vicinity of the
! Jail. Each soldier carries forty rounds
| of ammunition.
Sheriff Tells of Attack.
Sheriff Whitlock said today, in Civ
| ing his version of the shooting into the
/ mob:
after I saw from the Jail that the
mob was determined to attack, I went
to the veranda and attempted to talk
| to the maddened men. AS I stepped
into view of the crowd two bullets
were fired, one striking the wall back
of me. I fired two shots into the air.
/ Some one shouted that / was only
bluff1ng and was shooting blank cart
! ridges. 4 warned the mob I would re-
sist an attack on the Jail with powder
and lead. There was another shot
| from the mob and it surged forward. ]
then fired a shot from my shotgun into
their legs. This drove them back, but
| they returned a moment later to the
attack of the front door. I was alarm
ed for the safety of my wife and chill
dren. My wife took gun and said
she would stand. by me. I got her and
the children out of the way, and then
as the leaders, coming with the rail
to batter down the walls, shot along