The Washington times., 1903-07-07
MARTIAL LAW IN
EVANSVILLE, IND.
Last Nights Battle Urges
DurbiD to Action.
SIX DEAD; FIFTEEN INJURED
Attack on Jail to Lynch Negro Re-
suits in Battle Between Mob
and Militia.

INDIANAPOLIS. July 7.-Brigadier
General Mckee and Quartermaster Gen
eral Perry. Of the Indiana National
Guard. were dispatched to Evansville at
3 O'Clock this morning by Governor Dur
Din, to take charge of the situation.
When they reach it, the city will be
declared under martial law. Governor
Durbin only awaits their report
EVANSVILLE. Ind. July THE riot
Ing which this city has witnessed for the
past two days eliminated last night in
a battle between the militia and a mob
1000 strong. and as a result a score of
people were killed or injured.
List of the Dead.
The known dead:
HAZEL ALTMAN. shot in heart
ED BUHL, twenty-three years old.
shot in back.
ED SCIFFMAN. twenty-five, shot in
head and back.
AUGUST JOURDAN. twenty-five, shot
In head and back
FRED KAPPLER. aged fifteen. shot in
side.
Unknown man, middle-aged. shot in
back.
Wounded Are Many.
The wounded are:
John Fares, forty-eight; will die.
Theodore Bee. twenty; will die
Walter Miller. wounded in Jaw.
William Barnett, hit in back.
Mrs. Adel. shot in back.
Edward Smith. shot in arm and back.
Sergt- A. Reese, ankle wounded
Sergt. George II. Koenig, leg and hip.
Melvin Jacques, private, in arm.
Richard Wolfe.
Another private, slightly wounded.
Charles Taylor. shot In back. will die.
Henry Smith. middle aged, slightly
wounded
Riley Mayes. middle aged, seriously
wounded
William Keller. twenty-one: slightly
wounded.
Fired on Mob.
At 10:30 the members of Company a.
First Regiment. after a days guarding
OF the county Jail, and one hundred
deputy sheriffs under Sheriff Chris
Kratz, fred into a mob of 1000 men
gathered on Fourth. Division, and Vine
Streets. surrounding the Vanderburg
county Jail and attempting its capture
All evening the mob had been reviling
the soldiers and deputies and assailing
them with stor
At o'clock TIL mob gradually became
more and more excited, it's manifesto
tions OF uneasiness more frequent. and
at 10 o'clock IL was seen that nothing
could prevent an assault on the Jail. At
1870 o'clock the rioters pressed slowly
forward and innocent onlookers and the
curious followed.
Used Bicycle as Shield.
Slowly they forced the miIitiamen
back toward the Jail until the alley
way between Division Street and the
stone building was reached. Then the
leaders. with a bicycle in the front. az
a shield to the bayonets of the soldiers.
attempted TO enter the alley and storm
the alleyway entrance
Captain Blum, OF the National Guard
ordered a charge on the rioters. Gradu-
ally the crowd was forced back, the
soldiers using their bayonets and the
butts OF their guns. Suddenly the rioters
fell back. Stones and boulders began
to fly through TIE air. A soldier was
struck with a stone and feIled. A rioter
was knocked down with a gun butt and
then shot was fred. The one shot
started a fusillade Of musketry and
shotgun fire from the defenders of the
jail. and a scattered return fire from
the rioters.
Slaughter Becomes General.
Fully 300 shots were fired from the
jail windows, the courthouse steps
Immediately opposite, and by the SOL
diers on the streets. No one knows who
fred the first shot. The soldiers claim
Il was the rioters. while the rioters
make no claim and refuse to talk about
IT. The soldiers and the deputy sheriffs
fired into the retreatlng mob OF mon
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