The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-20
KNOXVILLE QUIET TODAY AFTER BATTLE IN
WHICH FORTY PERSONS WOUNDED LAST NIGHT
Fears Still Entertained
That Trouble May Be
Renewed Tonight =
Officials Declare First
Shots Came From the
Mob Seeking to Storm
the Jail and Secure Ne
groeS.

Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 20-With at
least two score men and women SUI
fcring from gunShOt wounds, - of
whCm were checked in Il: local hospi-
tails before midnight Knoxville greet
ell 2 new day with peace and quiet as
in aftermath CT three hours of near
rioting before the Knox county Jail, j..
wh .ch Frank Martin, negro, accuse d
3saailan. CT young white school
teacher, is being held. which resulted
in state militia. city and county depu-
! ties firing two or three hundred
rounds from revolyers and riot guns
into the crowd
Fears were entertained today that
trouble might occur tonight in NOV
ing the prisoner. A cavalIy troop and
machine gun detachment of the STATE
militia were on du'y at the Jail this
morning.
Adiutant General Rrumitt, Sheriff
Cate of Knox county, anl Capt.
Schneider OF the machine gun com
pany, declared that the first firing
came from the mob, whose principal
weapons were rocks and stones.
The volley from the regularly con-
stituted peace officials effectually dis.
ersed the great crowd which disin-
tegrated and retired. Ambulances
were on the scene in thez meantime
and carried the injured to hospitals
AT the Jail, in addition to the heg"o,
Martin, and numerous whites he'd for
city crimes. are four white men re-
Gently sentenced to the electric char
from Anderson county charged with
the murder of George Lewis, ard
Maurice MAYS. negro, under life sei..
tcMce from Knox county for the mur-
Ger OF Mrs BERTHE Lindsey in 1879
and the objective Of a similar ou.-
break OF violence Aug. 80. 1919. when
the county Jail was practically demul-
ished and 90 prisoners liberated
PrecautiCn was taken at midnight
to properly guard the municipal
powder house in South Knoxville. anG
local hardware stores where guns and
dynamite and blasting powder are
handled.
The injured list as reported from
local hospitals, included:
William Porter, shot through left
shoulder.
Clarence Leak. shot through right
side and left leg; considered serious.
Robert Underwood. shot in left leg.
Hall NandCrgriff. bullet wound in
mouth; considered most serious.
Ulrich Davis. shot in forehead, bul
let still in frontal cavity; bullet
wound in right arm.
Homer Oglesby, bullet wound
through left arm.
Al Lee, shot through left shoulde
ard right leg.
Kenneth p. Lees. bullet wounds all
over and through arms.
Joe Ramsey. shot through left leg.
j. n. Thompson, shot through leg
in two places.
r. W. Gleaves, Nashville, shot twice
through calf of left leg. Once in back
and twice in right leg; considered Sc.
rious.
Ernest Erwin, shot through aldo
men; considered serious.
Thomas Julian, shot in leg.
Robert Jones, shot above ankle.
Clifford Grove, shot through shoul'
der.
Jess Childers, Elba. Ala, shot in hip
and above ankle.
Charles S. Nuckols, shot in back and
right arm; considered serious.
Mrs. Charles S. Nuckols. slightly
wounded in back.
b. H. Galloway shot in left thigh
and back
l. Il. Hull. shot in right arm Bone
shattered and amputation probable.
w. NJ Poore, Manring, Tenn, shot
in right leg, serious.
Harry Burke, slightly wounded in
back with buckshot.
Walter P. Hammett, vocational stu
dent, six buckshot in back and wound
in chest; discharged to go home.
Walter Sellers. ten, shot in face and
hips.
Charles Mccall, struck in head with
pistol. . tn