Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-31
FATAL RACE WARAT DAkv|LLE
A MOB OF 600 WHITES FIRED INTO
BY A NEGRO.
He Was Quickly Captured and Taken
to Jail by Officers But the Mob Bat
tered Down the Wall and Took the
Prisoner and Hung Him-Another
Neuro Had Assaulted Woman.

Danville, H., July ga race war
has broke out here. While a mob OF
600 men was on it's way to the county
Jail to lynch James Wilson, Bloom
ington negro, who had confessed TO as.
saulting Mrs. Thomas Burgess, wife OF
a farmer negro shot and killed Hen
nv Gatterman, white, member OF the
mob. The murderous negro, refu-
gee from Evansville, Ind, whose name
is ]. w. Mayfield, was then lynchea
by the mob, and three other negroes
who attacked the whites were beaten
badly. The mob finally resumed It's
march to the county jail, determined
to lynch Wilson.
Wounded.
Adam Murray, shot through the
head will die; H. Hines, shot in the
neck and shoulder, will die; Otto
Heinke, shot in the arm, will recover;
Patrolman Charles Lopp, dubbed on
the head while defending Mayfield;
Patrolman William Leverenz, badly
injured internally by mob's battering
ram while defending Mayfield; Fred
Lorenz, shot three times in the leg in
attack on Jail; Mince Mobaker, shot
in attack on Jail; Mr.. Laid, shot in
attack on Jail; John Bell, shot in chest
in attack on Jail.
Lynchins Of MayfeId.
Mayfield met his fate while the mob
was on it's way to lynch Wilson. The
angry throng was passing down East
Main street when the negro became
involved in an alteration with some
of its members. They started after
him and he drew revolver, firing into
the crowd.
Henry Gatterman, young butcher,
fell mortally wounded and expired
within few minutes. The negro fled,
but was captured by officers within a
block of the scene and hurried to the
police station, with the mob in hot
pursuit, temporarily diverted from
their march to the county jail. The
officers, with their prisoner, took ref
uge in the city building, barricading
themselves behind the doors CT one OF
the offices. They could not check the
mob, however, for it secured long
pole and battered down section of
the wall and the door, both OF which
were frail. On account Of the over
whelming number of the mob 1t was
useless for the officers to resist.
The negro was seized and rushed to
the spot where he had shot down Cat
terman. 1t was the work of an instant
to throw rope around his neck and
swing him up to telephone pole.
After his life had been slowly stran-
gled out he was left hanging, while
the mob proceeded to the county Jail.
After going a short distance, however,
the mob changed its mind, faced about
and, returning to the scene OF the
lynching, cut Mayfield's body down.
They rushed it to the principal square,
built a bonfire and hacking the body
to pieces with knives, pitched 1t in
the midst of the flames. For while
they watched it burn and then, COM
ing to a realization of their first mis-
sion, to lynch Wilson, they once more
resumed their march to the county
Jail.
Shot Into the Mob.
The sheriff and his deputies had ex-
pected an attack and made strong
stand. The sheriff refused to accede
to the demands for Wilson, and threat
ened to shoot If the mob committed
an overt act. The mob, now worked
nm to an intense state of excitement,
became frenzied in its determination
to reach Wilson, and in it's fury threat
eued to lynch the sheriff, his deputies
and the negro turnkey. Finally they
charged the Jail, and the sheriff and
his deputies fired, wounding nine mem.
hers of the mob, one fatally. The mob,
being repulsed, sent to a neighboring
mining camp for dynamite, and threat.
ened to again attack the jail.
Wilson's Crime.
Wilson, it is charged, went to the
Burgess farmhouse while Mrs. Burgess
was alone and begged food. While
she was getting him something to eat
he seized her. He fled, leaving her
half dead. She managed to crawl to a
neighboring farmhouse and gave the
alarm.
A posse of officers started in pur.
suit of the negro, and when Wilson
was captured he was hurried to the
county Jail to prevent lynching. There
the negro confessed.
Three other negroes have been at
tackled by members of the mob ant
severely beaten.
During the height of the excitement
, woman in the mob mounted dry
goods box in the street and shouted
kill the sheriff. He has shot NOR,
| .hnn nna white man ON Account of .