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w LOOTING WAGKI) BY MOB. j The Jail and Sheriff's Home Are 1 Plundered?Stores Bobbed. ??? Knoxville, Tenn.. Aug. 31.?As a result of the rioting here last night and early today there is not a firearm of any description to be found in a store in the city. Plate glass windows were crashed in. locks forced I and in some cases doors knocked j from their hinges in an effort to secure weapons. Deputy. Sheriff Hall, day jailer at the county jail, declared that all prisoners who escaped had been released by the mob and that none were turned out by the officers themselves. The mob which broke its way into the jail and the residence of Sheriff Cate, adjoining, was not satisfied with damaging property, but everything of value, including money, guns, whiskey, clothing, books, were taken. Part of the jail records were destroyed. Window Bars Give Away. For a little while the mob contented itself with shouting and shooting into the air. Soon they began pounding on # the heavy iron bars of one of the front windows, and eventually it gave way. Men began swarming into the jail and the jailer and deputies were overpowered. Heavy timbers - were brought up through the mob, passed from hand to hand over the heads of the men. Using these as a battering ram, they attempted to force the doors to the white cells. Failing with the battering rams, guns were brought into play, and in . this way the locks were broken and all white men confined on the upper floors were released. One of the federal prisoners told the men that he did not want to escape. "I only have eighteen more days to serve and I don't want to get intrt frnnhlp " hp said. A TOUgil VOICe replied: "Get out of here, or we will kill you." While the mob was releasing prisoners another was Iboting the tail. Every revolver, all the prisoners' money, almost all the food on hand, a trunk of clothes belonging to the jailer and even bed covering and medicine was stolen. Then after they had looted the jail they went through the sheriff's house, which adjoins. There they took even the children's dresses, besides breaking windows and de-"roying such l. property as could not be taken with them. Soldiers Badly Beaten. The first soldiers who arrived on the scene, sixteen men and one officer, were overpowered, some of them disarmed and eight bad^y beaten. . An hour later 150 soldiers reinforced the early squads. After the doors of the county jail had been battered down a number of prisoners escaped through the crowd. Among them were several convict- , ed of first degree murder and one | under sentence to be electrocuted. Among the prisoners missing are: Ehude Fellows, charged with the murder of Wesley Nichols: Charles Paul, of LaFollette. charged with the murder of a wealthy Greek, and C. W. White, of Blount county, under sentence to be electrocuted for the murder of a white man in Blount , county. Two federal prisoners escaped from the third floor of the jail. Sam Huffmaker, an alleged murderer from-Sevier county. \yas among the prisoners who refused to leave the ja*l. On the second floor of the jail a batterrng ram twelve or fifteen feet long was found after the mob had finished its work of searching for Mayes, whcf previously had been removed fo Chattanooga for sa?.v.?veeping. When the lenders found that the negro was not in Hie jail the mob turned its attention to a large ouantitv of illicit whiskey which had been found stored in one room. The head of a sixteen-gallon keg was smashed in. cups were produced and the liquor vanished rapJdly. Cases of quart bottles of whiskey were broken open and the bottles rapidly carried away. MAXTOXE?The guaranteed tonic for chills, fever and malaria. 25c and 50c bottle. Potatoes and ssnaKes. Mr. Charles Nichols, of Belmont, is visiting friends1 in this county. He tells the News man that Mr. W. A. 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