"However, the mob, and the crowd of onlookers, totaling near 10,000, prevented the fire department from making runs to the burning homes of blacks.Despite such things, when 30-year-old William H. Bowe – the high society chief clerk of the country treasure's office, who had come from a nearby town in order to participate in the attack – was allegedly shot by a "gang of negro thugs" as he was allegedly on his way "home," through The Badlands" at 3