Show NEGRO CREMATED IN SOUTHERN JAIL Crowd After Exhausting Every Effort Stands Helplessly Beyond Bars TRIED TO BURN WAY OUT Dinky Arrested for forto I I. I cs to 0 Heath Death It at ut oln V Tc Tein n by hy Ills His 11 Fort Worth Texas Sept 9 Screaming ayd aud madly dashing at the theiron lion iron window bars of or the tho city Jail at Mineola which was on fire while outside outside out out- side a crowd of ot men nien antI and boys hoys tried In II to tl break down tho the doors anti and rc rescue cuc him a negro named V Silas Johnson aged J 45 G was cremated to to- to day doy V Johnson was arrested last night on ona onix ix r. drunkenness charge and amI this mornIng morning morn morn- ing lug he lie attempted to burn hurn his way out the tho fire lire getting beyond his ills control unnoticed b by any o of the he o Tho The prison pilson door dool was locked and the lie turnkey turn urn urn- key 1 could not nol be he found until too late lato to 10 o free freo the doomed t man A general genral lire fire alarm was vas lurl e In Inand mill and the entire until c town rushed to 10 the tile scene of the flue conflagration attracted h by the tile agonizing screams of the ne lIe- uie- uie gro glO V Stood 1 Uy B 1 A hN heavy battering ram ran was wa secured I but the iron ilOn doors withstood tho lie A Axes ls l's and antI sledges hind hall no effect ef cC- cot on either the rock walls or 01 window window win win- dow dew bars hars and the tho crowd was forced to tn I stand stain Idly b by and watch the victim burn burui to death ane and listen to 0 his heartrending heart heart- i rending ending cries At one time ho shouted God Clod have mercy white while folks save savo me ale If you ou can Again tho the COW redoubled d Its efforts efforts ef er- ef- ef forts to free freu the prisoner nn and again vere the they repulsed by the lames flames There Thele were ere man ninny many women In the lie crow crowd and amI a n number r of or them became hys hs Three of oC them fainted Falling Walls alls CIu Crush h X Negro ro Women ramen urged the men on out to every fiort lOrt to save the ne negro ro but It was seemingly beyond human endeavor The town to Is without adequate tire lire service and anti h by the lie time the tue small hose lose was played on Oil the tho they the were beyond control While the lie ne- ne gre glO was crying In agony for help after his ils rescue was abandoned one ouie of or tho the alls ails alis of or the jail fell In and he was burled buried beneath the debris There Is considerable Indignation In he Ute town own over o the lie affair arrah and the tho a au- au are condemned for or their neelI neg- neg lI |