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Show RIOTERS ROUTED. Militiamen Defend Jail at the Cost of Seven Lives. Seven persons are dead and fourteen 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 result of the war between whites and negroes. Militiamen have been engaged in guarding the jail where sixteen negroes ne-groes are confined. From 7 o'clock in the morning until the hour of the catastrophe at night the crowd surged around the jail, calling the militiamen militia-men vile names, assaulting them with stones and berating the deputy sheriffs sher-iffs who guarded the jail. At 10:30 o'clock the rioters pressed forward with determination and innocent onlookers on-lookers and the curious followed. Captain Blum of the national guard ordered a charge on the rioters. Gradually Grad-ually the crowd was forced back, the Knldiers lisine thpir bavonets and butts of their guns. Suddenly a rioter 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 tnen a shot was fired. The one shot started a fusilade of musketry and shotgun fire from the defenders of the jail and a scattered return fire from the rioters. Fully 300 shots were fired from the jail windows, win-dows, the court house steps immediately imme-diately oposite and the soldiers in ' the streets. No one Knows who fired the first shot. The soldiers say it was the rioters. " 1 Governor Durbin is said to have instructed in-structed the authorities not to jeop- ) ardize the safety of the jail with half-way measures. The soldiers and deputies fired into the retreating mob of men who ran into Division street. For fifteen minutes the firing continued. con-tinued. When it ceased, .the soldiers had the place. In front of the staggering stag-gering band of fifty-eight soldiers lay the dead and wounded. ' Moans and shrieKs of agony and fear came from the injured. , . ; ; , |