Show RIOTERS ROUTED M I 1 tiamen defend jail at the cost of seven lives seven persons are dead and four teen injured as the result of a riot at evansville indiana the crisis came at the end of four days rioting and general lawlessness as a res lit of the war between whites and negroes ml MI chave have been engaged in guarding the jail where sixteen negroes are confined from 7 0 clock in the g until the hour of the catastrophe it night the crowd surged around the jail calling the militia men vile names assaulting them with stones and beratan berating ln the deputy sher slier effs who guarded th the e jail at lj iq 30 0 clock the rioters pressed forward with determination and innocent on lookers and the curious followed captain blum of the national guard ordered a charge op on the rioters grad bally the crowd was forced back the soldiers using their bayonets and butts of their guns suddenly a not riot er fell A soldier tried to drag him to his feet but before he could do so was assaulted by a rioter stones and boulders began to fly through the air A soldier was struck with a rock and fell A rioter was knocked down with a gun butt and anen a shot was fired the one shot started a fusillade fusi lade of d musketry ry and shotgun fire from the defenders of the jail and a scattered return fire from the rioters fully shots were fired from the jail win dows the court house steps imme and the soldiers in the streets no one knows who fired the first shot the soldiers say it was the rioters governor durbin is said to have in strutted ted the authorities not to leop loop ardeze the safety of the jail with w I 1 th half halfway way measures the soldiers soldier s and deputies fired into the retreating mob cf men who ran into division street vo for fifteen minutes the firing con tinned when it ceased the soldiers had the place in front of the stag gering band of fifty eight soldiers lay the dead and wounded moans and shrieks of agony and fear came from the injured |