The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
Mob Storms Jail and HaRgs Negro RapiSt, Afterwards
 Burning the Body
NEGRO TROOPS MAY BE
 CALLED FROM BARRACKS
Troop K Is Stationed in the Town and the Mob Threatens to Lynch the Entire Company
 at Once.

The dead:
 ]. Mayfield, Evansville, Ind, negro, lynched and burned by mob.
 Henry Gatterman, DanvIlle, H., white, shot dead by Mayfield.
 Fatally wounded:
 A. c. Merry, white, shot through head by volley from jail.
 H. Hines, white, shot in neck and shoulder by volley from jail.
 Wounded: Otto Heinke, white, shot in arm; Ben Rich, negro, badly beaten by mob; four unknown negroes badly injured; Patroman Charles Topp, elubbed on the head while defending Mayfied; Patrolman William Lever ense, badly injured internally by mob's battering ram while defending May field; Fred Lorenz, shot three times In leg; MInce Mobacker, shot in leg: = - Laird, shot; Thomas Bell shot.
 Danville Ill, July 25.--The city cf Dan vile, about one hundred and fifty miles south of Chicago, has witnessed an up- rising by white against black and at Il o'clock tonight. with one negro lynched and white man dead as the result of a ball from an Ethiopian's pistol mob clamors at the county jail foi the life of second negro Several blacks have been badly beaten, many of them arc armlng, while others are leaving town by the less frequented streets.
 The name of the negro who was lynched is not known, but it is understood he is from Evansville. The mob Is after James Wilson, a negro, who has confessed to brutal assault on Mrs. Thomas Burgess. wife of a 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 Main street when the negro became involved In an altercation with some of it's members. They started after him and he pulled a gun, firing Into the crowd.
 Henry Gatterman a young butchers who has recently returned from Fortress Monroe, fell mortally wounded and ex- pired in a few seconds. The negro turned and fled but was caught by the officers within a block of the scene of the trag- edy, and hurried to the police station with the mob in hot pursuit, temporarily di- verted from their march to the county jail. The officers with their prisoner took refuge in the city building barrlcad- ing themselves behind the door of one of the offices.
 Jail Stormed.
 They could not check the mob, how ever for It secured a long pole and pro- 1 Of 10 wall and the door, both of which were very thin. On account of the overwhelm- ing numbers of the mob. it was useless for the officers to resist. The negro was seized and rushed to the spot where he had shot down Gatterman.
 1t was the work of an Instant to throw a rope around his neck and swing him up to the nearest telephone pole. The mol did not delay long but waited to see that their victim was dead His life was slow ly strangled out and he was left hanging while the mob proceeded to the coun- ty fail where it is now preparing to storm the jail 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 sec ond negro by some ruse.
 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 entered the kitchen door and seized her. He fled leaving her half deac Afterwards she managed to crawl to the nearest farm house where she told her story. A posse of officers started fin pursuit of the negro and when Wilson was captured he was hurried to the county jail to prevent lynchng. There the negro confessed.
 Three other ngroes hay been attackd 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.
 Body Is Burned.
 ii P M.-The mob changed it's mind be- fore attacking the jail and went back and cut down the body of the negrc. whose name is Mayfeld. They rushed it to the public square and burned it in a bonfire. hacking it to pieces with kniVes as 1t burned
 Then they charged the jail and the sheriff and deputies fired, woundng sew eral members of the mob several fatally.
 The wounded are:
 Adam Merry. fatally shot through the head.
 H. Hines, shot in neck and shoulders may die.
 Otto Heink, shot in arm; will recover.
 The mob. on being repulsed. sent fo neighboring mininp camps for dynamite and say they will attack again.
 The mob now threatens to lynch the sheriff and his deputies. and also the negro turnkey Tn the jail as well as CO., Ored Troop K. which has headquarters s here and is expected to be called out.
 Just as the mob was preparing to storri the jail some one suggested that they :, back and cut down the dead negro. Tha suggestion was immediately acted upon< Rushing back to the scene of the lynch ing the mob cut down the victim and