The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-15

from the window; he saw them shoot ing from their hips
 Thomas Mcdonald, an elderly man, carpenter and builder by trade. living Adams street to the east of washins | ton was awakened by the firing, came down to the garrison road and walked west toward Washington street. Saw rison. one from the gallery of one of the barracks and one from the ground. He then saw twenty or more men as- eemble in front of the garrison wall on gate under the light of that gate, near Iy opposite Elizabeth street. He saw chem divide into. two squads. one go- the telegraph station and another squad going east to the alley around Marti- Hex's house. He then heard a lotN of shooting ap the alley toward the ognized them as United States colsred
 .. w. Kendall, who with hls wife. of the telegraph m Station Hs 'sSSs' wSs awaE. sa hened by two shots. He looked out of the window toward the garrison wall and saw from fifteen to twenty men and the wall. They were negro soldiers ana were shown to be such In the light or the lamps of tkc garrison gate. Hc i could not tell that they were arrnee discharged guns. There were five shots them go over the waii--he thinks eight or ten in number. but he could not 'ela Heard Msfrs wora saafy Of fwspsi cosnimsnd.
 the alley and continued for ten min utes. he heard the word of command i, One shot struck the house and room in which he was. threw dust on him self and wife. Mrs Kendall says she was frightened and ran to the. window seemed n G tc some some from en just inside of Hse the post gate. She thought she saw hig- ures of men running up inside the wall in the diredtiop of their cot- tage. She could not tell whether they
 MT. sanborn. the telegraph operator. union soldier in a Maine regiment and who had been In Brownsville thir- of the office on the ground floor. was awakened by the firing: was confused for some minrtes, and did not at once get up. Said the firing seemed to be right in front of the garrison gate, first firing ~he looked through the shades of the blinds and saw one col- ored soldier come in the direction of Elizabeth streets along the garrison wall. Did not seed to be hurried. had his gun with him and walked on tnrOuGn LnG small F~qTe I9WdTQ Lht quarters of the barracks. Between the time of his being awakened and see ing the. soldiers theSe was lew min- utes interval
 of age living on the Garrison road east of the alley, per--aps 150 feet was in bed when the first shot was fired; got up and came out onto, the sidewalk and saw a couple of vo1leys fired from inside the garrison from between the barracks and the garrison wall. He heard the bullets whizzing and went back into the house. He heard the men heard some one say, Where Is the damned stun; get it going" This was as he walked back into tlfe house
 Theodore Martines, the caretaker of the Yturia house on the corner of Washington street and the garrison road. was awakened by the shooting from the direction of the post. He found bullet holes in the Yturia house
 Tamayo, the scavenger of Company B. testified that he was at the corner company. He heard a shot toward the garrison wall, but thinks it was out side the wall, about forty five yards from where he was tanding toward the horse to the other side of the reser- va ation as rapidly as he could because ha expected to be shot. He saw no one between the barracks and garrison wall.
 Proceeding north the Cowen house on the southwest corner of the alley and 14th street, it appears that Mir. Cowen had left the house after 10 o'clock and at the time of the shooting there were in the house only Mrs. Cowen, the six children and the maid. Armada Martinez. The kitchen was in the rear of the house and on the alley was a bedroom. There were lights in the kitchen and dining room and in the hall.
 Put Children Under Bed.
 The windows and doors were all open. Mrs. Cowen and her daughter were In the dining room next to the bedroom on the alley in which her boy, Is years old. was just going to bed. As the firing approached she called her children and rushed to the northwest room. her own room and put them up- der the bed to avoid danger. while the maiu rushed to the windows of the boys bed room on or near the alley anr raised all the windows. As the maid got to the windows. she saw. the mon come oposite to the house in tho alley and by the light from the kttch- en recognized them as negro soldiers. The Cowen house was shot full of bul- let holes. The dining room lamp was shattered by a bullet and another bull let, going through several partitions, broke 8 plate glass in a wardrobe and was found behind the glass. The mem bers of the Cowen family describe the working of the guns, the crashing of the bullets and the. terrible situation in which they found themselves.
 Garza lives just across the alley. He