The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-07

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restore order practically turned the city
over to the mob by inaction.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July G-Gov. Dur
bin says he will go TO Evansv lille by the
first train and if conditions are al repre-
sented will declare martial law
battery company Of this city has been
ordered to mobilize at the Union Station
and leave for Evansville at o'clock in
the morning. The battery contains sew
eral gatling guns that will be taken down
on fiat cars by the same train
Race riots, the result of two attempts to
storm the county Jail and lynch Robert Lee,
the negro who murdered Patrolman Louis N.
Massey on Friday night. have put Evansville
under military supervision and the combined
efforts of troops and civil authorities are
directed toward REFRESHING further out
breaks. The feeling is intense. Tonight
the Evansville militia patrolled the Jail.
although Lee had been sent fifty miles
away
Six men were arrested after dark for
trying to break the line of troops Henry
Aster, 20 years old, was stabbed with a
bayonet and will die. The injury cases,
white and oolored, are twenty-eight at this
time. all caused by shots this morning.
Raymond Harms, 20 years old, son of a
German minister. was shot, and he is ex-
pected to die. Two negroes who were
wounded in the attack upon Fourth
street saloon are in a critical condition
To-day 500 negroes left the city, going by
train, to stay while the present riotous con-
dition lasts. or moving their families and
goods to distant towns.
Fren2ied mobs paraded the streets until
daybreak this morning, breaking open
every gunshop in the city, stealing every
weapon in stock, and then attacking white
and negro loiterers wherever they found
them. One negro rendezvous on Fourth
street was riddled with bullets, and another
in Baptisttown, the negro quarter, was
shot to pieces and ransacked. A negro
tenement in the downtown section was
fired upon at the same time
Massey was shot on Friday afternoon
and died after he reached the hospital.
He attempted to arrest Lee, and the negro
fired upon him. They exchanged several
shots, and the negro was wounded in the
chest. Following Massey's death mob
spirit became rampant, engendered, 1t Ia
probable, by the late large colonization in
this city of negroes from Southern cities.
At midnight mob surrounded the Jail,
battered in the gates and attacked the
iron doors. but their efforts were futile.
They dispersed swearing vengeance.
Expecting renewed attacks, Sheriff Kratz
took the prisoner to Vincennes. fifty miles
north, yesterday morning. Early last night
5000 people collected at the Jail and de-
manded 'he murderer.
Speeches. to convince them that he was
not there we're useless, and the mob dele
gated five successive committees to search
the Jail, with the Sheriff's permission Still
they remained unconvinced. Then the
mob attacked the windows with batterlng
rams, and forty policemen were modified
inside the Jail to prevent general slaughter
of prisoners if the attacking party entered.
At midnight the bars on one window
were smashed and the mob poured inside
Efforts to uuell it with water from FIRE
hose drew forth fusillade and three police
officers narrowly escaped bullets. Satisfy
ing themselves that Lee was not there, the
invading party left the jail and the mob
outside followed them. General rioting
followed.
Gov. Durbin ordered out the Evansville
company to patrol the Jail, and tonight
six companies we're sent to Evansville to
help police the city and drive excited
and bloodthirsty men off the streets.
Five hundred special policemen have been
deputized and the Sherif's force is in
creased by 200 deputies.
Following last nights outbreak. the
Mayor issued stringent orders for the
closing of all saloons, and warned white
people in the Bapti5ttown district to move
away, fearing a general attempt at burn
ing the town tonight.