The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-12-11

pany, F. A. Yost Company, Central Of
flee of Cumberland Telephone Compa-
ny Methodist parsonage, Acme Mill
ing Company and Forbes Manufacture
ing Company
Several small tenement houses oc-
cupied by negroes and in the vicinity
Of the burned Tandy & Faireigh wars
house were burned
The handsome home of W. Z.
Vaughn, opposite the warehouse, took
fire and at one time it seemed DOOM
ed as there was not enough hose and
noZzels with which to fight the fire
raging at so many and widely sepa-
rated places
Tom Datillo who had a lunch stand
and confectionery in t he Planters
warehouse lost everything and car
ried no insurance.
The night operator at the Louis
vile and Nashville station was forced
to leave his instrument just after the
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to begin their work of destruction.
POLICEMAN FIRED UPON.
Policeman Miller was at the phone
at police headquarters telling the may
or that the riders were in town when
they opened fire through the front
window and door and some of the shot
passed uncomfortably close to him.
Guests of the Hill House. within two
squares of the destroyed Planters
warehouse, who had gone out on the
street, were forced inside. Several
knots OF people who had been called
from their homes by the firing and
yelling of the mob were corralled
until a signal was given and then al
lowed to go home, but ordered to get
there quickly.
BATTLE WITH THE RIDERS.
Shortly after o'clock the sheriff's
posse overlook the night riders, two
miles from town and kept up a run
ming fire on them for twelve miles.
Two or three of the horsemen over
took a buggy with two men in it
and ordered them to surrender. One
of them dismounted and jumped in
to the moving buggy, but was
showed out, and his companions re-
Trained from shooting until he was
disentangled from the hand-to-hand
conflict, being afraid of killing their
own men. When the deputy jumped
ed or was showed from the buggy
he was mistaken in the darkness for
night rider and quickly thrown
down and held
AS soon as possible this fatal
blunder was corrected and the
squad opened fire on the buggy.
which disappeared at breakneck
speed. A little further in pursuit
they found a bloody handkerchief and
hat, but the buggy in the darkness
turned out of the way and could not
be found again.
The pursuit was kept up to point
three miles west of Crazy, on the old
Bacon road, where the last shots were
fired at a small remnant of the riders.
The posse returned this morning at
o'clock.
THE LOSSES.
The factory of Tandy & Fairleigh
was an isolated wooden structure,
owned by w. T. Tandy, a brother of
E. R. Tandy, the head of the firm
1t was worth probably $4,000, but
little tobacco had been received.
The Latham building was worth about
$4,000. NJ. H. Tandy & Co., were OPP
Grating it as a loose sales warehouse.
NJ. II. Tandy is a brother of the other
two named. Adjoining this was the
Dabney factory, used as an associa-
ton pricing house by L. B. Cornett.
This went with the Independent house
The Planters Bank and Trust COM
pany, the Commercial and Savings
Bank, the First National Bank, the
Forbes Manufacturing Company and
the city light company al had losses
from plate glass windows being brok-
en-.
The eKntuckian Office, owned by
the Mayor, was entered through the
demolished front and From Night Ri
ers" was written on a scrap of pa
npr