The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-09-24
The Tonopah Out
rage.

the murderous assault made upon the
Chinese Of the camp Tuesday evening
and Wednesday morning.
Tuesday night shortly after o'clock
a crowd Of men, numbering from thirty
TO fifty met in the southern part
of town and from there marched in a
body to Chinatown. Arriving there they
entered first one Chinese house and then
another. alarming the occupants in some
instances, choking them in others, and
commanding them forthwith to leave
town under penalty Of being hanged the
following day IL they failed to comply
with the orders.
The second call was made on the
Chinese sometime after IL o'clock. This
time the crowd had decreased consider
ably in numbers, the highest estimate
putting the number at fifteen. In small
or bodies than that they entered the diff
ferent Chinese houses and with oaths
and drawn guns pointed at the heads Of
the Chinks and commanded them to leave
town at opce. The first house they en-
tered was that Of Sam Kee, on Central
Street. Here they aroused the occu-
pants and jerking them around az il they
were brutes told them to go at once,
barely giving time to those who were
undreesed to put on their cloths. and IL
they were slow at this they were kicked
and cuffed and hit over the head and
body with guns. All the houses in that
vicinity were visited, and finally when
enough had been secured, six members
OF the mob, each OF them leading
Chinese, started for the Sodaviile road.
Meantime scene most brutal and tragic
was being enacted in the Wing Sing
wash house, just in the rear OF the Miners
Exchange hall. Here the proprietor.
Ping Lung. an old and emaciated
Chinaman. nearly seventy years old. aud
his assistant. All. Sam had retired for
the night. They were aroused by the
breaking Ia Of the door; two meo entered
and commanded them to leave at once,
and accompanied their ordees with
rain Of blows on the heads OF che China.
men when they demurred and asked for
little more time. This. however WIS
not given them and they were serked out
into the road and half led aud half drag
ged they were taken to point mile and
half west OF town. and after being
made to give up their possessions they
were told to go out into the night. All.
Sam made pretense Of going. but after
short while he took the back track and
made his way to town. Ping Lang, how
ever, suferiog, bleeding and bewildered.
and probably thinking that his torment
ors we're still after him, continued his
course in the direction of Sodaville,
sometimes keering the road and then
staggering off into the brush, almost
every step he took being marked with
splotches Of blood. This course he fol-
lowed about three miles, TIL nearly ex
hausted and probably unconscious OF
his actions, he wandered off into wash
to the right Of the road and there fell,
face downward, alongside OF a big rock,
which he clutched and spattered with
blood in his death struggle. Here
Thursday morning the body was located
by Constable Scott Hickey, who had
tracked him almost to the place of his
death by the pools Of blood along the
road and trail.
While the six or eight members Of the
mob we're escortipg the Chinese down
the canyon, those who remained behind
put in their time ransacking and looting
the Chinamens' houses, the Cinnamon
remaining having deserted their homes
and sought places OF safety. In this
manner the marauders secnred several
hundred dollars 10 money and valuables.
All the time that the outrages were oc-
curing in Chinatown the balance Of the
town slept in ignorance OF what had
happened, which was probably due to
the ia I that the one or two whites who
had been witnesses to the outrage failed
to appreciate its magnitude, and to the
further fact that the Chinanen were SO
badly frightened that they did not dare
open their heads.
Nearly all of the meo ander arrest ure
members Of the Labor Union, Arandall
being president and Breusng, recording
secretary. What evidence is in possess
ion of the officers to connect most OF
them with the outrages has not been
made public, Dut it is stated that enough
has been secured 10 cou uvict at least four
or five Of them OF robbery and at least
two Of them of murder. Two men
thought to have aided in the outrage
have secreted themselves and cannot be
found, and it is thought they have skip
ped.
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