The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26

46ANA&tCs Aif.f SosS @'-N nv ~~-s Danviile. about one hundred and fifty miles south of Chicago. has witnessed an uprising by white against black and at Il o'clock tonight, with one negro iynched and a white man dead as the result of ball from an Ethiopan's pistol. mob ciamors at the county jail for the life of second negro. Several blacks have been badly beaten. many of them are arming, while others are leaving town by the less frecuented streets. The name of the negro who was lynch ed is not known. but it is understood he is from Evansville. The mob Is after James wilson, a negro. who has confessed to a brutal assault on Mrs. Thomas Bur gess, wife of farmer at Alvin, ILL. just north of here.
 The unknown negro met his fate while the mob was on the way to lynch Wilson. The angry throng was passing down East 4 Main Street when the negro became in- yolyed in an altercation with some of lie members. They started after him and | he pulled a. pistol, firing into the crowd.
 BUTCHER SHOT DOWN.
 Henry Gatterman, a young butcher who had recently returned from Fortress | Monroe. fell mortally wounded ana ex- hired in a few seconds. The negro then | turned and fled, but was caught py the officers within a block of the scene Of | the tragedy and hurried to the police sta- ton with the mob in hot pursuit tenn porariiy diverted from their march to the county jail. The officers with tneir I s..4 he s,ffv hfIil0inR. barrfcading themselves benino the oocE of one of the offices.
 They could not check the mob, however, for 1t secured a long pole and proceeded | to batter down a section of the wall anu | the door, both of which were very thin- | On account of the overwhelming numbers | of the mob 1t was useless for the ofncers | to resist The negro was hurriedly seized | and rushed to the spot where he had shot down Gatterman.
 It was the work of an instant to throw A rope around his neck and swing him up to the nearest telephone pole. The | mob did not delay long but waited to see | that their victim was dead. His life was | slowly stranged out and he was left hang | ing,, while the mob proceeded to the coun- | ty fail where 1t is now preparing to storm the jaii and capture Wilson. It does | not seem that the officers can success fully resist long and the only hope Is that they may be able to save the second negro by some ruse.
 WILSON'S CRIME
 Wilson it is charged went to the Bur gess farm house while Mrs. Burgess was alone and told her he was hungry. While she was getting something to eat he en- l tered the kitchen door and seized her. He fed, leaving her half dead. After ward she managed to crawl to the nearest | farm house where she told her story. A posse of officers started in pursuit 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 attacked by members of the mob and severely beaten. One of them is Ben Rich and the other two are said to be refugees from Evansville, Ind.
 Just as the mob was preparing to storm the jail, some one suggested that they go back and cut down the dead negro. The suggestion was immediately acted upon. Rushing back to the scene of the lynch ing, the mob cut down the victim and carried the body on a run back to the public square in front of the jail. Hay, store boxes and barrels were collected and the corpse was thrown upon the pile. A torch was applied and the flames shot up.
 While the mob's victim was burning several men fired bullets into the flames. Several knives were drawn with which they hacked the burning corpse The ears were chopped off and the feet, which protruded from the flames, were hacked | to pieces.
 When the mob had done everything it's fury could suggest, 1t turned again to the jail, in front of which was still smouldering the human bonfire. A fence rail was procured as a battering ram and the mob charged the jail door. In- side. guarding the prisoner, was Sherin R. D. Whittock, several deputies and a negro turnkey.
 FIRES INTO MOB.
 The sheriff shouted to the mob to stand back or he and his men would fire. The warning was unheeded and as the mob was almost upon the jail door a volley rang out from inside. Several of tho mob fell wounded and dying. bullet pierced the head of Adam Merry. His death is a matter of but a short time.
 H. Hines received bullets in the shoul- der and neck, and his wounds are so des- perate that his death is expected. Otto Hein1xe was wounded in the arm. Others received lesser injuries.
 A woman mounted large store box in the middle of the public square and shouted: Kill the sheriff. He has shot more than one white man on account of l a negro"
 The mob was especially wild in it's an- ger against he negro turnkey. After the fusilade. 1t recoiled for a few minutes but immediate preparations were made for another attack. A message was sent to a mining camp at Westfield, Ill., to bring over dynamite to blow up the jail and the mob leaders were notified that two miners had started with the explosive They are heavily armed and are riding swift horses
 Company K, a colored troop, has its headquarters here and the officials have prepared to call 1t out. Leaders of the mob declare they will try to kill the en. tire company if 1t comes out. On the edges of the public square at midnight two negroes lay in the gutter, beaten into insensibility by clubs in the hands oi white citizens. The names are unknown The name of the Evansville victim of the mob is J. D. Mayfield, who came here about a week ago.
 In the mob are many women. Nearly twenty men and women from Alvin | where the assault on Mrs. Burgess was committed are active leaders of the mob. The mob has increased to several thOus- and, the entire square in front of the jail being packed with shouting men and l women.
 While waiting for the miners who were expected to bring the dynamite from Westville, the mob marched up and down in front of the jail, stoning 1t and firing shots at random