The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-08
KEEPING ORDER
AT EVANSVILLE
General Compliance With Orders
to Keep of the Streets.
TROOPS OF STATE ARE OUT
NEGROES FLEEING, BUT MORE
BLooDsHED FEARED LATER.

Z VANST1LLE, Ind, July 7.-After
the carnage last night Evansville
tonight is obeying the orders of
the mayor and the people are keeping
OFF the streets. There are nine dead.
one dying, three others fatally hurt
and twenty-one more or less injured.
-Four died today
Eight companies Of militia and one
battery are in Evansville The 400 SOL
diers. are armed, with rifles and the
light battery has a Calling gun. The
Terre Haute company arrived this
afternoon and relieved the Vfncennes
and Evansville companies in guarding
the Jaili An hour later Brigadier Cen
era! w j. Mckee, in command of the
INDIANA national guard arrived and
assumed command Of the troops. At
S'45 tonight special train arrived
bearing three companies and a battery
OF artillery from Indianapolis, also a
company from Martinsville.
The troops were marched through a
quiet, curious crowd Of several thousand
people. There was not a negro in sight
IN the meantime the Evansville Terre
Haute and VinCcunes COMPANIES had
gone into camp around the court house
and ian- with sentries and picket lines
out. No one WAS allowed to approach
NiNAAh ovv ydIuS OF the jail.
Preparing For More Trouble.
General Mckee on his arrival this
afternoon held a consultation with the
mayor and committee of fifteen pfomi-
nent citizens designated by the mayor as
q committee Of safety. At this meeting
there were some expressions of severe
CRITICISM OF the course Of Mayor Covert.
General Mckee asked for the cooperation
of Sheriff Kratz. but that official tele-
phoned from the Jail that it would be
death Tor him TO leave the protection Of
the troops, and he Is still entrenched be-
mind the guns of the soldiers and the
walls of the prison. General Mckee was
asked by the citizens for all troops pos
sible. and said he could pour 1900 soldiers
into the city before daylight if necessary.
He said he thought the 400 guns which
have now arrived would be sufficient for
all emergencies.
All saloons were ordered closed at noon
and the order is being obeyed tonight.
Inc general expresseion heard in the
streets Isl "Wait till the soldiers go
away. There viii be trouble again. This
thing is not over yet"
Martial law will not be declared until
there arises additional trouble. General
Mckee said tonight that il had been re-
ported that threats were made by lead
ers Of the labor organizations when they
saw the troops arriving that they would
not 90 thing to those negroes protect
Ors before daylight" However the Cen
trial Labor union Joined with the mayor
this afternoon in a proclamation urging
all citizens TO remain in their homes to-
night and maintain order
The negro fire company has left the
city under advice Of the mayor, and their
places in the department have been filled
with white men, The negroes had be-
come so frightened that they were re-
garded as unfit to perform their duties
and were relieved from duty at their own
request
OF the ten men who We're fined 800 each
in police court today for carrying con-
cealed weapons. nine were negroes. The
grand jury today returned twenty indict-
ments against rioters I'm last nights trou-
bic. The capiases have not been served
and the names Of the rioters have not
been made public. The indicted are said
to be well known citizens.