1897 Cripple Creek COLORADO newspaper Black Brute NEGR0 LYNCHED Griffin GEORGIA

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1897 Cripple Creek COLORADO newspaper Black Brute NEGR0 LYNCHED Griffin GEORGIA
1897 Cripple Creek COLORADO newspaper "Black Brute" NEGR0 LYNCHED at Griffin GEORGIA
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Cripple Creek Citizen
(Cripple Creek, COLORADO) dated July 23, 1897. This rare early original Cripple Creek, CO newspaper contains prominent front page "stacked" headings: "BLACK BRUTE LYNCHED / Summary Vengeance Meted Out by a Mob / WAS RIDDLED WITH BULLETS..." with a 1/3 column detailed account of the
LYNCHING of  a NEGR0 man, OSCAR WILLIAMS at GRIFFIN, Georgia by a White mob
.
Oscar Williams was lynched at Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia in the summer of 1897.  A Bibb County sheriff was actually supposed to transport Oscar to Atlanta (unharmed, of course), but he failed at his duty. Oscar Williams was accused of outraging the little five year old daughter of Mr. Campbell, of Henry county on Saturday, July 10th and was lynched at Griffin, GA.
Sheriff Herrington, of Bibb county, had Oscar Williams in charge and was on his way to Atlanta where he proposed to turn the prisoner over to the Atlanta jail for safe keeping, but Oscar was compelled to stop over in Griffin and made to pay the penalty of his hellish crime committed just twelve days ago.
On the arrival of the 6:13 Central train a large crowd had gathered at the depot and when the train came to a halt twenty or more determined young men boarded the train and began a search for Williams.  The crowd was met by Sheriff [Herrington] and told that Oscar Williams was not on the train, but the people thought different and made a search that at first looked like the sheriff was giving them the straight tip, but finally Oscar was found concealed in the water closet and very tenderly and carefully taken out, placed in a buggy and driven out Broadway just outside the western city limits, followed by some two hundred men and boys, where he was hanged with a cotton well rope.  The rope was tied in hangman's style and thrown over an oak limb, when Oscar Williams was drawn up five feet above ground.  The other end of the rope was tied to a near by tree, and then five hundred bullets were shot into his body in less than half a minute.  His legs were tied below the knees…and his hands fastened with handcuffs.
It just took twenty minutes from the time the train reached Griffin until the crowd began leaving the dead and mangled body of Williams hanging in the air. There were no masks worn or any effort made to conceal anything by the determined crowd.
Very rare
early Cripple Creek, CO newspaper. It contains national and international news as well as
LOCAL
news and ads from Cripple Creek, COLORADO from 1897, some 125 years ago
.
The City of Cripple Creek is the Statutory City that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States. Cripple Creek is a part of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cripple Creek is a former gold mining camp located 44 miles southwest of Colorado Springs near the base of Pikes Peak.
A few years after gold was discovered in Cripple Creek, political differences between area miners and mine owners, many of whom lived in Colorado Springs, resulted in the division of El Paso County. Created in 1899, Teller County was carved from the western slope of Pikes Peak, and was named after United States Senator Henry M. Teller. Within five years of its formation, Teller County became the scene of a dramatic labor struggle called the Colorado Labor Wars.
For many years, Cripple Creek's high valley, at an elevation of 9,494 feet, was considered no more important than a cattle pasture. Many prospectors avoided the area after the Mount Pisgah hoax, a mini gold rush caused by salting (adding gold to worthless rock).
On 20 October, 1890, Robert Miller "Bob" Womack discovered a rich ore and the last great Colorado gold rush began. Thousands of prospectors flocked to the region, and before long Winfield Scott Stratton located the famous Independence lode, one of the largest gold strikes in history. In three years, the population increased from five hundred to ten thousand. Although 0 million worth of gold ore was dug from Cripple Creek, Womack died penniless on 10 August 1909.
In 1896, Cripple Creek suffered two disastrous fires. The first occurred on April 25, destroying half of the city, including much of the business district. Four days later, another fire destroyed much of the remaining half. The city was rebuilt in a period of a few months; most historic buildings today date back to 1896. By 1900, Cripple Creek and its sister city, Victor, were substantial mining communities.
During the 1890s, many of the miners in the Cripple Creek area joined a miners' union, the Western Federation of Miners (WFM). A significant strike took place in 1894, marking one of the few times in history that a sitting governor called out the national guard to protect miners from anti-union violence by forces under the control of the mine owners. By 1903, the allegiance of the state government had shifted, and Governor James Peabody sent the Colorado National Guard into Cripple Creek with the goal of destroying union power in the gold camps. The WFM strike of 1903 and the governor's response precipitated the Colorado Labor Wars, a struggle that took many lives.
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