The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
TWO KILLED AND TWENTY-FIVE
OTHERS WOUNDED At DAN.
WILLIE, ILL.
TROOPS NOW IN. conT:ol
FOUR COMPANIES OF MILITIA
HOLD LAWLESS ELEMENT
IN CHECK.

station wrecked, the county Jail with
a few of it's windows left unshattered,
the city in the hands of the state
troops and a feeling of uneasiness and
dread prevailing everywhere, is the
situation left by the ace riots of Sat
urday night and early Sunday morn
ing. The revised list of dead and in
jured from Saturday nights oatastro-
phe is as follows:
The dead: John D. Metcalf. negro.
lynched and burned; Henry Cater
man, killed by negro Metcalf.
The injured: John Devore, Adam
baker, Edward Hart. A. Swafford, Fred
Lorenz, w. Lattern, Harry Rennick of
Taplin, ILL.,; H. Hines, Otto Heinke
and Henry Slade; two unknown men,
one shot in left arm and the other in
the hand, refused to give their names
when their wounds were dressed; un-
known young ma wound in head. re-
fused to give his name; four unknown
negroes, beaten into insensibility by
the mob; unknown woman carried
away in a buggy after she was seen
to fall.
Many of the injured are at the hos
pital. Arrangements are making for
the funeral of Henry Gatterman.
Crowds Were Restless.
After daylight appeared Sunday
the streets. Hundreds of farmers
thronged to Danville and each SUR
rounding town continued to swell the
crowd. Many miners we're seen in
the streets. Great unrest and a threat
ening attitude was reported from
Westville, five miles away. EARLY in
the morning Wilson, the alleged ne
gro assailant of Mrs. Burgess, was
secretly taken from the county iail
but was returned shortly after.
Four companies of militia arrived
Sunday morning from Springfield.
Companies A, l. B and H of the
Seventh Illinois infantry were sent in
reply to urgent requests sent at mid
night to state officers. The troops
marched to the market house opposite
the Jail and encamped.
Streets were cleared and the threat
ening attitudes of the crowd disap-
peared. There were sullen threats
heard. but no attempt at ar outbreak
was manifested during the day. Last
night 100 sentinels were p%atrolling the
streets in the immediate vicinity Of
the jail. Each soldier carried forty
rounds of ammunition.
Sheriff Whitlock. in giving his YER
sion OF the shooting into the mob.
said:
Crowd Fired on the Sheriff.
After ! saw from the Jail that the
mob was determined to attack. l went
to the veranda and attempted to talk
to the m%addened men. AS l stepped
into view of the crowd. two bullets
were fired, one striking the wall back
OF me. l fired two shots into the air.
Some one shouted that was only
biuffing and vas shooting blank cart
ridges. ! warned the mob | would re,
sist an attack on the Jail with pow.
der and lead. There was another shot
from the mob and it surged forward.
then fred a shot from my shotgun
into their legs. This drove them back,
but they returned a moment later to
the attack OF the front door. | was
alarmed for the safety of my wife and
children. My wife took a gun an
said she would stand by me. | got
her and the children out Of the wav.
and her as the leaders were corning
with a rail I o batter down the walls. I
shot along the rail to make them 7rop
it. This accounts for so many being
shot in the hands and arms. fred
eight or ten shots in all"
Sheriff Whitlock had four deputies
and three constables with him in the
jail guarding the prisoners He says
none fred into the mob but himself.
Situation Is Strained,
There are al! sorts of rumors aaoat
and a strained situation is noticeable.
But the 200 soldiers here. it is be-
lieved. will prevent further outbreaks
for the present at least. Half Of
these will be on duty all the time.
Leading citizens say the outbreak
has been expected for a long time. as
bitter feeling has existed for several
years between the negroes and a GER
tain class of white persons, A num-
Der of minor outbreaks have occurred
during ,he past year,
The feeling against the soldiers is
noticeable The commissary depart
| ment had much trouble getting restau-
| rants to serve meals. Many refused
70 feed soldiers.
There Wa one clash between the
guard and a miner named Ed Liggett,
who began abusing .he guard. The
soldier leveled his bayonet and Lig-
gett was arrested and fined 800. -Four
other companies of the regiment are
under arms at Springfield awaiting or
ders. Crowds gathered during the
day near the lines and cursed the sol