Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1903 — MOB LYNCHES NEGRO. [ARTICLE]

MOB LYNCHES NEGRO.

T ,l^9 0 n N dIMJ TLE G,RL i^ r/ RTB 001 10 002096 war. a < -mm* Meets Officers with Man 1 atMlaUdeOl Vtaiol* a-«rta P) ©) -,001; .biAanttttsuAtftt) tte 10-yesf- 0 1 Ajiai^ghte^ ; sgiiodßrniSMst ;©avfcl)i’a f Jfnner t>y , J *' IjroafttnßegMf (whose trerae >l4 Mv ktewh; fe<wte4ai*>a#heMttr'4i«lWce rtyt 4t ! thS! vtßttfiS- agiiflamMi lIW/ AW vThe.tegr#, ‘ft ita-‘beliei>(«; -nagcocLß working on a rptw Misf.issippi river. After he been hangea' 4t»gi7 riaidecl ‘the 1 bridge, • *Ml'•volfeya’bf *het* '^itfr 1 tlutvnegrtpjj, -awd -Woiinded iSeversl. 1 : NOf»e J on*e wblt* liw iiavls ea;st TV. a WWld Ws' dauj&Jtet ( W W'dße barnyaird’the negro spdW t<» She ran, but he seized [gpwws brought her moUter toahe -.yescue. The negro then fled. “/ t apread 1 mang “the neighboring fatmets m mtfv ««* ffeMjtog so search of the assailant. The negtjo was ,'faedbwlifltK and was« being ytiMhjiilifeSrfroM Fe when the »cb qt ArrSifwift meW || A scrimmage resulted, duringjjwbich. fflf farriteit }sf co ??r1 fe sed, till b«|e| fa \ niriyi Without ' a word Ue liJ) fettie ej l ‘Mtf thb priay ar towffi-d |hf lifw I r V K y. com icted aero# fbf N»< i 4i * "bpre W w s hangfd t« >dj'Without delay. A ter th«i|bo<n hid cfujltftd If th alr « fe v momlntslt M r d llamiwth I ullets. ofljbeiW4ii<»avbr<SKt<Mi£{>«9 se thy. mob, but their efforts were unava| ijig. iA *mt? IWfWBWb ijverM hundred negroes employed on theibridga ynd living in tents nearby. The Sdgrot* opened A ".Elisa Pelb Hindi ¥«:Old 144(fi) was seriously jj&ffo groM were .Hvounded,. The mob »ressed foswird;* 46tfcHftftli»Wling -the stesfly .$M| until the negroes turned and fled g'iMiartl a nearby wood, taking their \w>tiu4§d: witAvkhem. • v-v 0 ’ ylqoi f *ICT WAi burned tflem. After aceoniplisiingi.jf general*, work >rft destruction tbu nS B'rs^J@iM|oliceaifcß^7 in and the village was placed under | lieavy and fe One fireman was killed and ii Opt Try valued at SOOO,OOO destroyed by firt 'at ; Colum»« S ,;. Sunday Daniel Lewis, captain of engine campany ‘Kbt' if, wad Wuihk nhder a Walt «, into th « barber shop and, was cremated .]m,, the ' u fa4M- " worm ov/ :]! '” ■ )•! tbe Brunson’hnd ,Union Clothiiig Company buildlbgs at High Miid'd.yng -isfreets, and. faimed' • g byiskibprtk W)i»4i)qfvckl.v sprea* to adjoining structures. The followpg list of the principal losses shows thai b.yilfliteMirfßrsaiwte iel ,1. S. Bull, $7,500; .Courtright | block, FleetwoGtfnCMittttfclrt; $15,000; Uloeji, $5,000; block, T bifilm W Mi4t( f 1 Wlftiam Bering J 46,(flfqtlvipgTpompany, #S,QfQQi Bott Brothers, billiard supplies |jkik;a*A loon, $05,000; Tallmadge Ilardwaw Pfxmj wxE^fSq-iM;ir|s: Whatshire Hotel, $5,000: Lynns Hi ifvll!? ers. wholesale grocers, $50,01 Ki; ijjihy.^ ) uywf\«nce is - 4350,000. The upper Silers of the r Tmip*on building were oiciyuyji mainly as living apartments, nit I .Ag erca % Sf f vns “I HWA-d with tt fWilßng Philip g|. NffiiMi thcUintrth floor, -was rescued from a room cnfcjppod ■P4SBS ifuiwiii| > •cluttiffi, "rertMcnly aiippatcd at ■» -willdp>r ft tlou. _ The firemen,—however Jqt Y|*rttd to rairc an en%hVion ladder, | i'i I i( les the fan back j4\e' ■ < iw I jd returned !witl jin aiinfil ( [of, ’ c hi s, tt l.uft hfc streps. /HU l^tl lop'if ‘the. ladder touche I.4b® window sill qe appeawS weanna a < hat, and 1 each him starrfd'‘{4 tfiH&b'JWTIHU reached the ground he was. in a;etat«ii4f collapse. X 'tifi