Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-08-04
ILLINOIS RACE RIOTS.
SCENES OF BLoCoY VIOLENCE
AT DANvlLLE.
Negro Is Lynched and Burned-County
Jail and City Prison Are Almost
Demolished = Troops Are Ordered to
the City.

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After the terrible scenes of Saturday
night, when for six hours Danyille. H.,
was at the mercy Of bowling, blood
thirsty mob of frenzied and half-drunken
men, the city is quiet.
1t Is the quiet, however. that is
brought about by the glitter Of rifles in
the hands of soldiers who are licensed to
XIII. On the surface all is peaceful but
underneath the storm of rage and hatred
is boiling and threatens to break forth
anew when the troops shall have depart
ed.
Tossed here and there on the public
square, as the capricious winds will il
are the fragments of clothing, bits of
bloody hay and splintered wood. grew
some mementoes of Saturday nights
slckening tragedy, when the negro May
field was dragged to death and his corpse
hacked to bits and burned.
City Is in Dread.
Close by is the county Jail. not whole
pane of glass left in the windows, and
the doors and walls bearing the marks
of the assault by the mob Three blocks
away is the city prison. demolished by
the mob. In the hospitals are a dozen
or more men suffering gunshot wounds,
and many more skunk away after che
sheriff made his determined stand bear
ing with them testimony in the way of
buckshot, that he was a man of his
word.
Public feeling against the negroes had
been wrought to high pitch by a terri
Bile assault upon q white woman by
James Wilson, a negro in the Jail. and
there had been much talk of lynching.
but it had not crystalhzed until Saturday
evening.
Shot by Negro.
About $50 p. N. q negro named Met
cali became involved in an argument
with Henry Gatterman. young butcher.
in front of an East Main street saloon.
which ended in the negro shooting Cat
terman dead
The negro was caught and with much
difficulty the police took him to the city
prison, followed by a crowd which rap
idly grew into a mob that yelled itself
hoarse in demanding that the murderer
be lynched
The police, assisted by Sheriff II. II.
Whitlock, gathered in the city building
trying TO keep the mob out, but were
finally forced to admit portion of them.
The colored murderer had previously
been locked in a vault in which the police
records are kept and the officers hoped
that the mob would not find him.
Dragged from Jail.
The leaders were told that Metcalf
had been taken out of the rear door and
carried into the country in buggy. but
they refused to believe the assertion.
Some went for railroad irons and others
for sledge hammers and a few minutes
later the lock had been knocked of the
vault door and the negro was dragged
forth amid the eXultant shouts of his
captors. The victim made a fierce .trug-
gle, but the blows that were rained upon
him soon brought him to the floor of the
police station, and revolver in the hands
OF one of the members Of the mob put
a sudden end to his sulferings.
Body Is RiddIed.
The mob then dragged the diving man
from the building, and placing rome
about his neck dragged him one squals,
south to Main street and then Eve
squares east to the saloon where he killed
Gatterman, where his body was struck
up to telegraph pole and riddled with
bullets.
Cries of Burn him. Burn him.
were then heard, and the mob leaders
soon had the lifeless body of the negro
cut down and were dragging him south
on the Wabash Railroad tracks.
At South street the mob leaders decid-
ed to take the body to the Jail, where
James Wilson, another negro captured
at Marshfeld, Ind, charged with trying
to assault Mrs Mary Burgess, a white
woman, the previous day, is imprisoned
"on to the Jail"
As soon as the word was given the
mob yelled, TO the jail" Mob the
other niger" etc and made a wild
charge for that building, where quite
crowd had already congregated in antici-
patton of another lynehing.
Arrived at the Jail, the body Of the
negro was placed in the center of the
converging streets. where dozens of fren-
zied men and boys kicked and jumped
upon it. The body was totally naked,
and blood wa oozing from dozens of
bullet holes
Some one then threw an armful of hay
upon the body and touched a match 10 it. |
after which the mob backed away a short
distance and watched the awful spec
tacle.
Demand More Blood.
Growing tired of this grewsopae sight
the mob turned its attention to the coun-
ty Jail and demands were made upon
Sheriff Whitloek to surrender Wilson.
A dozen or more deputies and police
men had hurriedly been gatl togeth-
er and placed in the Jail, heavily armed
Sheriff Whitlock demonstrated with the
mob, but without effect Finally a peep
hole was opened and the barrel of
Winchester gun was thrust through il
and another demand from the sheriff, this |
time from window in the second story.
for the mob to dispense, was made.
Shot Anglers Mob.
No attept;on being given to it. a shot
was fired over the heads Of the mob. The /
shot seemed OILY to anger the mob, and /
q charge was made with the battering I
ram upon the door. The gun was again /
fired, this time into the dense crowd /
welding the railroad iron, and several |
men were seen to drop to the ground.
Several more shots were fred from I
the Jail door and windows by the officers \
inside, and the mob began to scatter, /
leaving four or five on the ground bleed I
ing from bullet wounds. Others limped l
away, showing that many Of the buck /
shot and bullets had taken effect.
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