The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-11-22
.SCEEEOF EXCITEMENT.
Mobs Formed at Lexington, Ky, to
/ Lynch Negroes.
MILITIA CALLED OUT
Parties Wanted Are Charged VITA
Having Entered = Saloon aud
Shot at Seine White Men,
Killing One.

Lexington, Ky. Nov. 22.-At io:45
o'clock Monday night the prospect Of
mob which had formed on the out
skirts of the city attacking the JAIL
In which Garfield Smith. Ed Taylor
and John Taylor are confined, was so
pronounced that County Judge Book
advised THAI the militia he called out.
Constables and deputy sheriffs to the
number OF hfty had already been put
on guard at the Jail. and all the police
have been called from their beds 10
reinforce the night force. The author
lilies decline TO give out the informa-
ton that has come TO them OF the
mot but they are In touch with the
movement. and regard the situation as
grave. Sunday night the negroes who
are In iail started out on an expedition
to kill white dogs Entering Lui-
CARTS saloon, they opened fire on a com
pany Of white men, who were strangers
to them viii Moran was shot dead
ss he was crouching behind a barrel
Others found cover and escaped. though
bullet holes marked their places of ref
gge
Al II q CLOCK tfBibff4 ROGER W filiAIfiH
OF the Second regiment called Company
G into service The police learned that
the mob was forming in three sections.
one In Gratz park another In Bruce
town and the third outside the city. on
the Bryant station pike. At II o'clock
a platoon Of police advanced on a
crowd OF 400 at Graiz park. The men
offered no resistance. bat dispersed i'm
ali directions Several who had guns
xposed were captured and locked up.
The police dispersed groups of men
u hsnever they collected In the down
town districts.
While minstrel performance was
IN progress at the opera house halt
was called by the management and II
was announced that Colonel Williams
asked all miiitiamen IN the audience TO
tha lobby This caused excitement,
and by II O'clock hundreds OF people
we're f}ocklng To the jail Police stretch
81 roEss across the street bounding the
1sii and reinforced this with a living
chain OF blue cents They received in
formation that two brothers OF the
widow wha. with ten children OF Moore.
IT. left unprowided for were at the head
81 "a mounted mob riding from Bourbon
EDWNt& I ne report EN&t the willow bAj
saId she wanted the men lynChrd inrit-
ed many To Join the mob. The main
rendezvous Is in the county on the Bry-
art sfw3on pike Information that n
has planned - burn the square In
" hleh the prisoners lived reached the
police but they could not spare men
from the ball to guard the street
Following a reconnoiteriuz trip by
squads ~ police II midnight Mayor
Combs aHa County Judge bullock left
the 5at at I O'Clock Tuesday morning.
Both said that they believed danger OF
nm attack had passed They tsssrihe ne
abandonment Of the plan 81 the mob
70 the calling uat ~ the militia and 9TH
er emergency pres 8utlous which bluff
ed the leaders The raost determined
band collected at dtsuantled stove
foundry Il SIS said that q rotei
Preathitt county feudi~t Nas the Lead
ev The dispersal ~ tho Crate park
mob Is believed 20 have aided the Of
fsciaia These weu visited the other
campo and spreaa the news ~ the ass
sem bling 81 the militia and me strength
az the guard IA the la4i The brothers
81 Mrs Moore arrived AMI 81 Was said
nv those who visited the Bryant sta
ton pike that they had abandoned ths
attempt for the night State guards
took possession az fbr approaches 10
the jail af ] o'clock