The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-25
Mad African Fires on Every
body at Munroe, La.
THREE ARE LIKELY To DIE
Miscreant Uses Double Barreled Shot
Cun.-Body Burned Alter Be-
ing Killed. - Another
Negro Is Shot.

Monroe, La, Aug. 25-Angered,
lit is believed, because two OF his
friends had recently been shot by
local policemen. William S. Wade, n
negro, yesterday ran amuck on the
principal business street of Monroe
with a double barrel shotgun, shoot
ing first at every white man he saw
and then firing unfortunately at
every object before him. The fire
fell dead with a bullet through his
heart. but not before twenty-nine
men. three of them members of his
own race, had been more or less Sc
riously wounded
Wades body was publicly burned
after it had been cut down from a
pole on which it hung for half an
hour or more after he was killed.
1t was at first reported that Wade
was half crazed at the time from the
effects Of cocaine and cheap whiskey,
but an investigation by the police
showed that he purchased the shot
gun and box of shells few min
utes before he opened fire on the
first man and that there was nothing
unusual in his manner or behavior.
Other negroes who were with him
in the morning say he had not been
drinking nor did he show any evil
dence of having taken cocaine.
Wade came here recently from
Pine Bluff. Ark He was accom-
panied by several other negroes and
they commenced to make trouble for
the local police soon after they ar
rived
1t was alleged that they were mem
bers of a society in Arkansas which
had as lis object revenge for alleged
injuries done the black race. As a
result, these negroes clashed with
the police on many occasions and
twice recently they have exchanged
shots with the officers. 1t is also
alleged that Wade was heard to say
that no white man was going tC
shoot him. No attention was paid
to him, however, until he started OF
his wild rampage yesterday
At the store where Wade bought
the box of shells the clerk says thai
the negro asked for buckshot, He
gave him birdshot by mistake Thi'
mistake probably saved the lives o
a score or more of men.
| The negro, after purchasing thu
/ gun, took a position in the arcade o
the bank of Monroe, at Grant anC
/ Desyard streets, the most prominen
/ corner in the city. His first shot was
directed at j. ] Jordan, cashier o
| building. He missed Jordan, bu
| the load struck George Mccormack
who was close enough to the negro
| to have his arm badly shattered, il
spite of the small shot, 1t may b'
necessary to amputate the arm. Tn,
| first shot brought many merchant
and clerks out on the street and thu
negro then began to fire in their di
rection. AS fast as he discharged hi
gun he would step back into th'
arcade. reload and reappear and re
new his fire.
! The second man wounded wa
Deputy Sheriff Grant, who was sho
before he could draw weapon
| Simon Marks of Tuskegee, Ala.
came out of his brothers clothin!
store to see what the trouble wa
and received load of shot in tn
breast Patrolman Bigger, who ha'
been attracted by the shooting, RAJ
toward Wade and was shot down
but arose and emptied his revolve
at the negro. 1t is believed that on
or more of Bigger's shots took et
feet The negro continued to fir
into the crowd wounding many c
/ them, when Mayor Forsyth, Manage
Engle Stannard of the local Wester
Union office. and Daniel McIeo
came up and returned the fire.
Wade finally fell as result of tn
fatal wound in the heart. After tn