Show KILLING IN KEN KENTUCKY TUCKY troops firing on peaceable people without provocation uv liv W 17 to ilia the I herald ferald LExI NOTON ky nov tle the troops guarding neal and k n d cro croft ft on oil the way to the tile st slon emner ncr state were attacked by a mob the soldiers fired and were killed and wounded of the tho attacking parly party the prisoners and troops got hafl safely ely on board when tile mob seized a train and headed beaded off the boat at ashland K where another attack was made the troops troop returned the fire and again a number of ortho the mob were killed and wounded so far na as known but three of tho troops were wounded and they but slightly private dispatches received in this city place the number of killed at five and wounded at thirty the steamer granite Grani teSTate state has passed portsmouth and unless the fog prevents will rech maysville May aville tonight to inight night where tho the prisoners will be transferred red to tile railroad to he ile taken to lexington Lc CAT LEMBURG ky nov I trains gc going ng from this place to ashland last night were searched arched Be by a mob for the prisoners neal and croft the streets were stron strongly ly 11 guarded by military last wt night alic military end and prisoners started for lexington this morning tho broo troops guarding neal and croft have marlieb de barked from tile train and are in hinline inline line of battle expecting at attack by tho the mob ahtila A D ky nov I this noon twenty five men nien and boys intoxicated seized an engine and carand went to against the advise of oilier other men who last gayo gave up apall all hope of getting tho the prisoners fro from the military when whon they reached catlettsburg they mado made no effort to m capture iture tho the prisoners who were safely put in in tho steamer granite slate state at pm the crowd then hastened bac back to As ashland bland and about twenty of them went to the ferry boat and by tile use of pistols compelled the captain to put out to inter intercept celt the granite stifle their attitude was so ridiculous and d their case easo so hopeless that then the affair fl air would havo have been a farce but for tho tile reckless discharge of a little revolver in the tile bands of one of the boys on the ferry boat it was answered at once by a volley from tile soldiers the balls pierced alio boiler and alie escaping steam completed the d disabling isabl iii of the mob by this time tinie a great ea t crowd had ga theredon the bakar n d in the houses tile soldiers turned their guns on them and fired without provocation revocation hero the mischief was done e only three were wounded on the ferry boat while all till others in tho the casualty list were peaceable people on shore killed george kenner jamesele james mcdonald C col 01 an infant in its mothers arms unknown i seriously wounded jolin john baugh diaries charles balitzer Ba lineer linzer willio serrie will springer mrs airs S grahm robert 11 ritchard slightly martin dunlap alexi harris jolin john gallagher julius sommers summers thos birder bird Bir dIr mr B 13 butler A 11 II dickson thos Dc marera N E ball dr fiille martin goar mar hubert robert lowther Lowth cr col was a li highly respected citizen 70 ye araold mrs butler was a q quarter r ter of a mile away attending a in meeting e zi g to organize a public I read reading I ng room the citizens regard tho firing the ferry boat justifiable but have no words to express their indignation at the firing on peaceable citizens nov tho granite state steamboat with abo prisoners neal and cra craft t from catlettsburg to maysville readied reached there this morn ing her rs state the boat was taken into the service of the state by major alien allen and was comi commanded 11 to mako make no landing except at portsmouth they did not land even at portsmouth and readied reached maysville Mays villo at a in where there was no excitement thero there being no news of the trouble the tile prisoners who had been carefully kept were transferred to jail and the officers know nothing more about them T they hey say tile bilot filot pilot house and all the upper part of tho the boat show bullet marks but that only two soldiers and a roustabout were I injured by tho the fire of the men on the ferry boat ono one of these was a drummer who was hit lift in tho the hand tho the other soldier was struck struck on the head his ills wound not being ill serious |