The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-06

the town the next morning, and Major Penrose, commanding th3 ba tation, then identified them as ammunition for the service rifle and reluctantly admit- ted theIr conclusive weight a. evil dence that the shooting was done by some of his men,
 The raiders advanced up an alley leading from the fort through the town and first fired into the room of a house on the alley at the end of the 1 tirst block, In which were two women knocked over and put out a lighted lamp on the table in the room. Ten
 shots were fired, nearly all going through the house a { about 1 1-2 above the floor. The raiders then encounter | ed the chief of police on, a horse. He
 had heard the shooting ana hurrisd to- soldiers. the number of whom he esti-
 mated to be fifteen he turned and tried to escape. They fired on him, kITIed his horse and wounded him in the arm so that, 1t had to be amputated. Two policemen who mad separated from hlm were also shot at. A bullet pierced
 then fired into Milier's' Hotel on the alley at tho end of the second block.
 There was light in the hotel and guest at one of the windows Six bull let holes were found in the hotel the next day.
 The party then divided. One squad proceeded farther down the alley to the third block toward a saloon which had been one of those In which 1t had been
 insisted that the cOlured men must drink at a separate bar. The barkeeu- CT heard them coming ana attempted. to close the door but was shot and ln-' stantly killed near the door. The fatal surgeon with army experience to nave
 been made by bullet of dhe callDcr
 of those used in the service rife. A
 Mexican in the same saloon was shGt i,t
 shots in the saloon door. The other
 squad shot into d house next to the house of the man who had, as already related, knocked down one of the en- listed men with revolver. The shots
 were all aimed at about five or six feet above the floor and went through the mosquito bars In which a woman and two children were sleeping. Bull let marks were found on other houses in the neighborhood. There was much evidence of expression uttered by the raiders as theN' advanced and shot, in- |diCating their malicious and murderous intent. The shots fired in snort estimated from seVenty-five to one hundred and fifty, and all were fired within three blocks of the fort.
 The first VolleY awakened many or the sleeping garrison and attracted tho attention of the sentinel, who dis charged his gun three times and call ed the guard. The sergeant of the guard called out the guard and then he directed the call to arms to the bat taliOn. The bugle sounded and the men rushed to the gun racks, winch the sergeants and corporals in charge say had not been opened until they opened them with the keys whic' had been, in their possession for more than twelve hours. One gun rack was broken open in the hurry of the men to answer the call to arms. The commissioned o't- cers were awakened by the firing, dressed hurriedly, and came out to call the roll of the men of the var ious cor~qnies. They supposed that an attack had been made upon the bar racks bll men in the town. and did not know until some hours later that the shooting had been done hv soldiers and that their men were suspected or any offense. AS soon as they were in formed of the facts by the mayer, they caused all the rifles of tn" enlisted mon to be examined Every rifle was then found to be clean, ,. .,. that the firing had not ceased when the men he~an to form in .4'ne, anu therefore that all the guns with which the firing was done. could not have been in the racks when the sergea1ts in carge of quarters went to unlock the rack although they testified that they were there. It Is also certain thai during the formation of the com nanies, or immediatel after thH me
 who h I dono .he shooting must have returned to their places SO as to re- spond to the roll call or that some one answered for them
 one or two enlisted men testified that shooting was done outside the fort. that 1t was accompanied hy cries indicating hostility to the soldiers and that the bullets were directed toward the barracks, but not the slightest