The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-08-01
I ERIOUS RACE RIOTS
TWO PERSONS KILLED AND MORE
THAN j. SCORE WOUNDED
At DANvILLE, ILL.

Lynch . Negro Who Had Confessed
to Brutal Assault on a Farmers
Wife-Prisoner 10 Saved by the
Sheriff, Who Open. Fire on the Mob
With Deadly Effect.
Danville. ILL.,. July 27.-Two killed
and twenty-five wounded, the police
station wrecked, the county Jail with
few Of its windows left unshattered,
the city In the hands of the state
troops and feeling of uneasiness and
dread prevailing everywhere. Is the
situation left by the race riots Of Sat
urday night and early Sunday morn
ing. The revised list Of dead and in
jured from Saturday nights catastro-
phe is as follows:
The dead: John D. Mctcalf. negro,
lynched and burned; Henry Cater
man, killed by negro Metcalf.
The injured: John Devore, Adam
Murray, - Bicknell Clement Mo-
baker, Edward Hart. A. Swafford, Fred
Lorenz. w. Lattsrn, Harry Rennick of
Taplin, rll.; H. Hines, Otto Heinke
and Henry Slade; .wo unknown men,
one shot In left arm and the other in
the hand, refused to give their names
when their wounds were dressed; un-
known young man, wound In head. re-
fused to give his name; four unknown
negroes, beaten into insensibility by
the mob; unknown woman carried
away in buggy after she was seen
Many Of the injured are at the hos.
pital. Arrangements are making for
the funeral of Henry Gatterman.
Crowds Were Restless.
After daylight appeared Sunday
morning. there were restless crowds in
the streets. Hundreds of farmers
thronged to Danville and each sur
rounding town continued to swell the
crowd. Many miners were seen in
the streets. Great unrest and threat
ening attitude was reported from
Westville, five miles away. Early in
the morning Wilson, the alleged me-
gro assailant of Mrs. Burgess, was
secretly takon from the county jail
but was returned shortly after.
Four companies Of militia arrived
Sunday morning from Springfield.
Companies A, I, B and H of the
Seventh Illinois infantry were sent In
reply to urgent requests sent at mid
night to state officers. The troops
marched to the market house opposite
the jail and encamped.
Streets were cleared and the threat
ening attitudes of the crowd disap-
peared. There were sullen threats
heard. but no attempt at an outbreak
was manifested during the day. Last
night 100 sentinels were patrolling the
streets In the immediate vicinity of
the jail Each soldier carried forty
rounds Of ammunition.
The trouble originated in an attempt
by the mob to lynch a negro named
James Wilson, who confessed to bru-
tai assault on Mrs. Thomas Burgess,
wife Of farmer at Alvon. Ill.
Mob Encounters Negro.
While on its way to the county Jail
the mob of 900 white men encountered
J. D. Mayfeld, a negro refugee from
Evansville. Ind. Mayfield became in
volved in an alteration with some Of
the mob and fed. The mob followed,
and Mayfisld drew revolver and
fred.
The bullet struck Henry Gatterman
and he fell to the ground. dying in
few moments. Mayfeld was taken from
the police, after a battle In which sev-
eral persons were badly wounded, and
lynched. The mob then started for
the original object Of its search. The
sheriff refused to give up the prisoner
and fired = into the crowd, seriously
wounding number Of people.
Sheriff Whitlock had four deputies
and three constables with him in the
Jail guarding the prisoners. He says
none fred into the mob but himself
There are all sorts Of rumors afoat
and strained situation Is noticeable.
But the 2Of soldiers here, it is be.
lieved, will prevent further outbreaks
for the present at least. Half Of
these will be on duty all the time
Metcalf. the negro who was killed
and burned Saturday night, had lived
at Evansville for the last two years
and was recent refugee from that
city, where he participated in the
riots OF a few weeks ago,