The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-07-10
A Blood Battle Between the Sol
diers and the Armed Mob
at Evansville, Ind.
MORE TROOPS WERE ORDERED OUT
In the Encounter Nine Persons Were
Killed, IA Wounded and That
Many More Injured.
The Riot Was the Outcome of the
Murder of a Policeman by
Negro and a Race War
That Followed.

| clash between the militia and citizens
| hours after the soldiers took up their
| station in front of the Jail. A man at
| tempted to brush past one of the sen
| tries. He was halted and turned back
but advanced a second time, grabbing
| the soldiers gun and attempting tt
wrest it from his hands. The soldier
resisted and finally freed his weapon
and struck his assailant with his bayO
net. The man was not badly injured
Following four days of riOting and
general lawlessness this city Monday
| night saw the most terrible of its ex
periences with rioters. Seven per
sons are dead and IA are injured with
at least that number more thought to
be hurt.
At 1920 o'clock the members OF
Company A, First regiment, Indiana
national guard, after days vigilance
guarding the county Jail and 100 dep
uty sheriffs under Sheriff Chris Kraft
fired point blank into mob of 1000
men gathered on Fourth, Division and
Vine streets, surrounding the Wander
burg county jail and attempting its
capture. From z o'clock Monday
morning until the hour of Monday
nights catastrophe the crowd surged
vile names, assailing them with stones
and berating the deputy sheriffs who
guarded the Jail At 9 o'clock the mob
gradually became more and more eX-
cited, its manifestations of uneasinesS
more frequent and at 10 o'clock it was
seen that nothing could prevent an AS
sault on the Jail. At 1920 o'clock the
rioters pressed slowly forward and in
nocent onlookers and the curious fol-
lowed. Slowly they forced the mill
tiamen. back toward the Jail until the
alleyway between Division street and
the stone building was reached.
Then the leaders, with a bicycle in
their front as a shield to the bayonets
of the soldiers, attempted to enter the
alley and storm the alleyway entrance.
Capt. Blum, of the national guard, or
dered charge on the rioters. Gradu-
ally the crowd was forced back, the
soldiers using their bayonets and butts
of guns. Suddenly rioter fell. 4
soldier tried to drag him to his feet
but before he could was assaulted by
a rioter Stones and boulders began
to fly through the air. A soldier was
struck with a rock and fell. A rioter
was knocked down with a gun butt.
then a shot was fired. The one shot
started a fusillade of musketry and
shotgun fire from the defenders of the
Jail and a scattered return fire from
the rioters. Fully 300 shots were fired
from the jail windows, the courthouse
steps Immediately opposite and by the
soldiers on the streets.
All over the street, crawling and
moaning wounded rioters and onlook-
ers tried to ease their pain and es-
cape by getting away from the Jail
On Division street, lying between her
grief-Stricken father and mother the
little Altman girl was dead with her
breast torn away with a buckShOt
charge She was out driving with her
parents who, attracted by the noise
stopped few minutes to watch the
excitement. In the yard of the court
house wounded rioters lay and back of
the line of soldiers two of the militia
men had fallen. On the Jail steps
stood Sheriff Kratz. At his side was
Col. Mccoy. of the First regiment
Around them stood a few doctors and
reporters. When the firing had ceas-
ed Capt. Blum reformed his men and
gave them orders.
Inside the jail 43 prisoners lay terri
fed in the darkness, 16 Of them Ne
groes whose lives are far from safe if
the mob attacks the Jail again and eff
fects a capture The lights were turn
ed out when the shooting began and
the prisoners moaned and cried in
their cells. Telephone messages were
sent from the Jail to the hospitals and
to physicians calling for aid and to
them the response was quick. Doctors
from all over Evansville drove rapidly
at the call
indianapolis, Ind, July Gov. Dur
bin arrived at his office Monday night
He has ordered out the militia com
panies at New Albany, Terre Haute
and Vincennes and is calling out In
dianapolis companies to hold in re-
serve. He is preparing to declare mar
tial law. He expresses indignation al
the sheriff of Vanderburg county. and
says if the sheriff had performed his
duty instead of relying on the state
the catastrophe would have been
avoided.
Vincennes, Ind, July Lee Brown,
the Negro murderer of officer Louis
Massey, of Evansville, who was
brought to this city for safe keeping
from the mob at Evansville. is slowly
sinking from the wounds inflicted by
Massey after the latter had been shot
Three doctors have visited Brown in
his cell and pronounced him beyond
medical aid.
Evansville, Ind. July S.-Frank
Lamble. the eighth victim of the bat
tie in front of the county Jail Monday
night. died Tuesday evening at Gil
bert's hospital. Lamble was shot
through the back and suffered intense