The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
RACE RIOT HAS BROKEN
 OUT IN DANVILLE, ILL

I
 Continued from First Paae)
 carried the body on run back to the
 public square in front of the jail. Here
 storeboxes and barrels were collected and | the corpse was thrown upon the pile. I A torch was applied and the flames shot l up.
 Horrible BarbarItIes.
 While the nob'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 l to pieces. When the mob had done every 1 thing it's fury could suggest 1t turned
 again to the jail, in front of which was l still smouldering the human bonfire. A fence rail was secured as battering
 ram, and the mob charged the jail door. l The men in charge of the prisoner in-
 side were Sheriff R. D. Whittier. several deputies and negro turnkey. The sherin | shouted to the mob to stand back or he and his men would fire The sheriff
 was unheeded and as the mob was almost upon the jail door a volley rang out from | inside Several of the mob fell wounded and dying A bullet pierced the head of Adam Merry. His death is matter of I but short time.
 l H. Hines received bullets in the shoulder and neck and his wounds are so desperate that his death Is expected. | Otto Eeinke was wounded in the arm. Others received lesser injuries. A wo- man mounted a large store box in the middle of the public square and shouted: i 'sKi1l the sheriff. He has shot more than | one white man on account of a negro | The mob was especially wild in its anger against the negro turnkey After the | fusilade, it recoiled for few minutes but | immediately the preparations were made
 for another attack. A message was sent | to a mining camp at Westfeld, Ills, to
 bring over dynamite to blow up the jail, l and the mob leaders were notified that | two miners had started with the explo- | sive They are heavily armed and riding
 swift horses.
 l Company K, a colored troop has It's | headquarters and the officials have pre- 1 pared to call 1t out. Leaders of the mob
 declare they will try to kill the entire company if it comes out. On the edges
 of the public square at midnight two ne- | groes lay in the gutter, beaten into in- sensibility by clubs in the hands of white 1 citizens. Their 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 200 men and women from Alvin, where the assault on Mrs Burgess was committed are active leaders of the mob. The mob has been increased to several thousand the entire square in front of the jail being packed with shouting men and women.
 While waiting for the miners who were expected to bring the dynamite from Westville, the mob marched up and down l. A.. sa4I ,4fer and Rrtn shots at random. About half hour after the message for the dynamite was sent a telephone message came from Himrod, little town half way between Westville and Danville, saying that one of the min CTS a Hungarian. had been stopped there by citizens who had hurriedly set out from Danvile to intercept him. They took from him a large quantity of dynamite which he was carrying. The other miner with dynamite Is believed to be on the way here.
 Negro Company Fear Attack. About half of Company K, the negro or- ganization, has assembled at the armory and is barricaded there in fear of an att tack from the mob. The reserve police force, numbering twenty, has been called out, and these with twelve deputy sher- | ifs and Sheriff Whittock, forms the gar-
 
 interviewed in the Jail by correspondent.
 He said he was the man who visited the Burgiss' farm and he admitted that he had attacked Mrs Burgess, but denied that | he had criminally assaulted her. He was | thoroughly terrified and his teeth chat | tered as he talked. After the negro had
 made these statements Sheriff Whittock
 went to the outside of the jail and pleaded with the mob to disperse He asked them f< nj of ufl nd declared that Wilson had denied criminal assault
 His brief addres was interrupted by shouts of the mob, members of which loudly declared their determination to have the negros life sooner or later. They said they would get him at any hazards. The jail is three squares from the police station and one block from the public square where the negro May field was captured by the mob. Patrolmen Charles Topp and William Leverense were injured in the defense of Mayfield. Topp was kicked senseless by | being clubbed on the head, but his injuries are not fatal Leverense was struck in the chest by the battering ram with which the mob broke down the door, and | Is so badly injured internally that it is | thought he will die.
 l Danville is city of 26000 and has a ne- gro population of between 5000 and 4O0O. ! The delegation from Alvin. Ills. did not arrive until after Mayfeld had been | lynched He was strung up by a mob composed almost entirely of Danyille | people.
 When the sheriff and his deputies fired | into the mob their bullets were aimed
 at the leaders about two hundred of whom were in the jail yards with fence rails preparing for the attack on the door It was here that Merry, Hines | and Heinke were injured.
 At 2:15 this Sunday morning the mob is dispensing and no more trouble Is feared | tonight. The authorities are anxious for | troops and uneasy on account of possi- | ble renewal of the troubles tonight.