The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-07-31
DANVlLLE IN THE
THROES OF RACE WAR
Sheriff Fires Buckshot In Mob
Attempting to Storm
the Jail
a scoRE BADLY HURT
Mob Paid No Attention to Guards and
Tried to Batter in Jail Doors-Four
companiss of Militia Hold
Rioters in Check.

and twenty-five injured, the police sta
ton wrecked. the county Jail with few
OF Its windows left unshattered, the
city In the hands ofsthe state troops
and a feeling of uneasiness and dread
prevailing everywhere, is the %situattin
left by the race riots Of Saturday night
and Sunday morning.
The revised list of dead and injured
from last nights rioting is as follows:
The dead:
JOHN D. METCALF. negro. lynched
and burned.
HENRY GATTERMAN, killed by
negro, Metcalf.
The injured:
John Devore, white. wounded by
buckshot.
Adam Murray, shot in forehead; will
recover.
-Bicknell, buckshot in leg.
iemen Mobaker, buckshot in leg
and arm.
Edward Hart, shot in right hand.
A. Swafford, injured internally.
Fred Lorenz, buckshot in legs.
w. I-attern, buckshot in both arms.
Harry Renick, Of Taplin, ILL.,, buck
shot in foot and leg.
Five unknown men, in arms
and hands with buckshot, refused to
give their names when their Wounds
were dressed.
Henry slade of Pavilion Heights,
ruckshot in left side.
soar unknown negroes, beaten into
tnsensiDility by the mob.
carried away in a
buggy after she was seen to fall.
H.. Hines, shot in neck.
Otto Heinke. shot in arm.
After daylight this morning there
We're restless crowds on the streets.
Early In the morning Wilson, the negro
ly taken from the county Jail, but was
shortly afterwards,
-Four companies of the Seventh Illi-
nois Infantry arrived at $50 o'clock
this morning from Springfield. where
the regiment is holding it's annual en-
campment. The streets were soon
cleared and the threatening attitude of
the crowds disappeared. Tonight 100
sent1nels are patrolling the streets in
the vicinity of the Jail.
Sheriff Did All the Shooting.
Sheriff Whitlock said today, in Civ
mob:
After I saw from the Jail that the
mop was determined to attack / Went
to the veranda and attempted to talk
to the maddened crowd. AS I stepped
into view of the crowd two shots were
fired, one bullet striking the wall back
OF me. l fired W. shots into the air.
Some one shouted that 1 was only
bluflng and was shooting blank cart
ridges. I warned the mob l would re-
oA VAC jan vain wv
and lead. There was another shot
from the mob, and it surged forward.
| then fired a load from my shotgun
into their legs. This drove them back,
but they returned, and a moment later
came the attack on the front door. I
was alarmed for the safe-y OF my wife
and children. My wife TX a gun and
said she would stand b. me. l got
her and the children on, Of the way,
and then as the leaders came with the
rail to batter down the door / shot
down the rail to make them drop it.
This accounts for SO many being shot
In the hands and arms. 1 fired eight
or ten shots in ALL"
Sheriff's Small Force.
Sheriff Whitlock had four deputies
ana three c~onStables with him in the
Jail guarding the prisoners. He says
none fired into the mob but himself.
The feeling against the soldiers is
noticeable. The commlssary depart
ment today had much trouble getting
restaurants to serve meals. Many re-
fused to serve soldiers.
There has been one clash etwee
the guard and a miner named edward
L1ggett, who began abusing a guard.
The soldier leveled his bayonet, Lig-
gett was arrested and fined S1GO.
-Four other companies of the regi-
ment are under arms at Springfield
awaiting orders.
Metcalf, the negro killed and burned
last night, was a recent arrival from
Evansville, Ind, where he participated
In the riots of a few weeks ago.
Everything was quiet last night and
the guard at the Jail was reduced from
100 to 25 men.
first sleep in thirty-six hours.