The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-07-10
SOLDIERS FIRE INI0 !
AN EVANSVILLE n
Seven Are Killed O@utriph,S..
a Dozen More Are Ser.
iously Wounded,
I'll MIN
A Mob of Thousand Tried to Forr. /
Miiitiamen Back and Storm III
Jail and Are Met With ! |
Rain Of Bullets. .85;

Evansville, Ind, July 81 Follou.3
-Four days Of rioting and general IN
~iessness this city saw the most terJ
BILE Of its experiences with rtotasI
Seven persons are dead n fou,4s
are known to be injured, with al M
that number o thought to be I'M
The dead:
EDWARD SCHIFFMAN, pain,s
top OF head blown Off.
HAZEL ALTMAN, Is years I'D
daughter Of Joseph II. Altman, Shot
breast.
JOHN BARRETT, shot in right I'M,
AUGUST JORDAN. shot thropSl
..he body and head.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED MEN. lylna
in front OF the Jail.
The wounded:
Fred Schmidt, may die.
Fred Happier, may die.
Lee Hawley.
Robert Miller.
Charles Preskey.
Theodore BEEN.
John Fares, may die.
Albert Kaeuss, soldier, shot whIE
picking up wounded rioters.
Six other rioters were seen to fana
but got away before their names wen
learned.
At 6 o'clock more are thought to II
hurt. -Four members of Company Il
First regiment, received bullet and
gunshot wounds on the body; one d
them was shot through the shouldetI
another through the ankle and the 9TH
er two received slight scratches.
Two deputy sheriffs are slightJI
wounded.
Fired Into Dense Mob.
At 1880 o'clock the members of Com
pany a. First regiment, Indiana Nsd
tional Guard. after a day of vigilanUl
guarding the jail. and 100 deputy sher.1
IFS under Sheriff Chris Kratz, fred
point blank into q mob OF LOCO men
gathered on Fourth, Division and VIM
street, surrounding the Wandering;
county jail and attempting it's capture
From I o'clock this morning unit
crowd surged about the jail, calling the
militialnen vile names. assailing them
with stones and berating the deputiH
who guarded the jail.
AT 9 o'clock the mob gradually be.
same more and more excited, the !naaa.-
~lfestations OF uneasiness more IRE.
luent. and at 10 o'clock 1T was seen
that nothing could prevent an assaul.
on the jail.
At 1880 o'clock the rioters pressed
slowly forward and innocent unlock.
ars and the curious followed.
Tried TO Force Back Soldiera
Slowly they forced the militiamas
back toward the Jail until the alleywa!
between Division street and the ston
building was reached. Then the lead
ers, with a bicycle in front as a shieI
to the bayonets of the soldiers, at
tempted to enter the alley and storn
the alleyway entrance.
Captain Blum of the National Guar
company ordered a charge on the riot
ers. Gradually the crowd was force
back, the soldiers using their bayonet
and butts of their guns.
Suddenly a rioter fell. "A soldie
tried to drag him to his feet, but befer
he could he was assaulted by a riote
Stones and boulders began to 4
through the air. A soldier was strue
with a rock and fell. A. rioter Ws
knocked down with a gun, and then.
shot was fired. The shot started a I,
silade Of musketry and shotgun fl
from the defenders Of the Jail and
scattered return fire from the rioters.
Fully 300 shots fired from Il
Jail Windows, the court house stel
Immediately opposite, and by the so
diers on the streets.
No one knows who fired the fir
shot. The soldiers claim. 1t was Il
rioters, while the rioters make no clai
and refuse to talk about 1t.