The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-02-25
Women Attack Fencibles.

suddenly, near huntington street,
= woman screamed and attacked one
OF the soldiers with her fists. scratch
irg at his face. Real trouble broke like
a thunder clap. Boys and men sprang
on the soldiers fifteen or twenty 10 a
soldier. bore them down. took their
muskets away from them. tore theirl
coats off their backs. struck them in
Tho face with clinChed fists and rolled
them I'm the dirt. The crowd. now conf
vCrted into a mob. wedged itself bel
tween the militiamen. and the FenciI
blea were utterly helpless TO defend
themselves If the order had come to
them to shoot they couldn't have
obeyed. Many Of them had lost their
guns. and there was hardly a man in
ton who had q single cartridge left in
his belt
The intersection Of Germantown and
Letigh avenues was a surging mass OF
men and women. in which you could
see every now and then a bavOnet
pointed az all kinds of queer angles.
Service hats were whirling I'm the air
rs the crowd snatched them from the
heads of the youthful soldiers Women
CmefQed from the rim OF the crowd
holding mp BRASS buttons that had been
cut from uniforms.
Then came the rapid clanking or
horses feet Acting Sergeant Buehler.
RHINE at the head Of ten mounted
men hit the mob at full gallop. Bueh-
Ter spread his squad IN a fan shaped
formation and drove square into the
heart of the press. There was no
lonler the suggestion of humor The
Joke had turned into bloody reality
Every time a mounted policeman
swung his club somebody. man or wo-
man, went down with a broken head
or a paralvzed arm
As he swung past a church near Le-
high avenue Buehler's club struck n
woman on the side of the head. She
dropped with a scream OF pain that
was heard above the roar OF fighting.
A young man sprang on the steps Il
the church and fed a revolver Ut
Buehler's head. The bullet missed.
and the young mon f~oi again and
again. until bis pistol was empty. A
foct policeman loaped no Che stems
md beat the youth down uih heavy
blows from his club.
The Fcncibies meanwhile w-c Win
iraving themselves by main f-on eth
from the arht. They were W. .i.n
ryciess. BY ones and twos nry
vrerched themselves ont Of the hattrr-
ing. souirming mess and ass mh'ed
finally nesr the barn from wai'n toy
he'd marched so iauniily TIE hght
continued long after they left.
All through the crowd men had
drawn pistols. And the next instant g
revolver would let 20 with bang a4d
bullet would go whining toward .ie
sergeant or one of his squad. 4 bc'
names Francis Kolb was shot in ire
<,1e In the thick Of the hgit u -
r,onrown car rumb d up. The moo,
stu fighting with Buehler's r~'
taen and a squad OF nifty lou 80
Turned its attention 10 the car. VIII
dows we're smashed and bricks wen'
sailing in, one Of them laying out
pollceman who was guarding the car
A road superintendent OF the hapl'
T,ansit company, Lew Smith saw .n'
nollceman go down and fired at tn'
man he thought threw the brick in'
bullet struck a boy named waite
stead in the left side just below III
: heart Kolb may recover, but stea'
will lie. Somebody in the crowd sno
John Hughes in the abdomen. TWO p'
licomen we're carried out OF the cal
HELPLESS from bullet wounds. =.
One saw on every hand men WI.
blood running down their faces. VIII
damaged noses and arms grippe
from the smashing blows oil CLUBS
eozen men were lying sensalsss .
the street.