Frightful Act of a Madman in The Durango Democrat, August 14, 1903
Collection: Gilbert Twigg
Title
Frightful Act of a Madman in The Durango Democrat, August 14, 1903
Subject
The Durango Democrat
Durango, Colorado
Twigg, Gilbert A.
Winfield, KS
Description
This article written in The Durango Democrat, an independent democratic newspaper, was about the August 13, 1903 shooting carried out by Gilbert Twigg in Winfield, KS. It occurred during a Caman's band concert on the corner of 9th Avenue and Main Street. Four people are dead with three dying and around twenty are injured.
Creator
The Durango Democrat, Durango, Colorado USA
Publisher
Winfield Public Library, Winfield, KS USA
Date
1903-08-14
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Citation
The Durango Democrat, Durango, Colorado USA, “Frightful Act of a Madman in The Durango Democrat, August 14, 1903,” Winfield Digital Collections, accessed June 23, 2026, https://winfield.digitalsckls.info/item/221.
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THE DURANGO DEMOCRAT.
AN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER
VOLUME VI.
THE DURANGO DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1903.
NUMBER CLXXXIV
FRIGHTFUL ACT OF A MADMAN
Maniac Fired Into a Crowd of Five Thousand People During a Band Concert.
FOUR DEAD; THREE ARE DYING
The Band Had Just Finished Playing a Waltz When Insane Man Stepped From an Alley and Fired Into the Crowd of Listeners With a Double Berreled Shotgun Loaded With Bullets.
Winfield, Kas., Aug. 13.—At. nine o’clock tonight while Caman’s band was playing its weekly concert on Main street to a crowd of 5,000 peo-ple, Gilbert Twigg, a crazy man, 30 years of age, opened fire on the crowd with a double barreled shot gun load-ed with heavy bullets and as a result four are now dead, three are dying, and no less than twenty are injured, perhaps five or sux fatally. The dead are: Sterling Rice, a carpenter;
Dawson Timotson, a barber, whose brains were blown out; Bog Bowman, a carpenter of Oxford, Kas..
Gilbert Twigg, the man who did the shooting was killed by Officer Nichols. The band had just finished playing a waltz when Twigg stepped out from an alley a half block distant and de-liberately taking aim at the band-stand fired two shots. Oliver, the bandmaster, fell at the first shot, but the crowd, not realizing what had
happened, rushed toward the killer, believing that there had been an ac-cidental shooting of some kind. As the crowd closed in the crazy man discharged two. more shots at them, causing a scattering in every direc-tion. With the crowd fleeing the man stood in a demoniacal attitude, firing at random in every direction. Men and women shouted and shrieked and ran, but no one seemed able to stop the frightful carnage until Officer George Nichols confronted him and fired a bullet into his head, but be-fore life was extinct the demented man drew a revolver from his pocket and fired a shot into his own body.
Gilbert Twigg was a miller by trade having learned his trade twelve years ago at a little town 15 miles north of this city. He came to Winfield and became an employee of the Baden Mills, where he worked for a number of years.
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Title
Frightful Act of a Madman in The Durango Democrat, August 14, 1903
Subject
The Durango Democrat
Durango, Colorado
Twigg, Gilbert A.
Winfield, KS
Description
This article written in The Durango Democrat, an independent democratic newspaper, was about the August 13, 1903 shooting carried out by Gilbert Twigg in Winfield, KS. It occurred during a Caman's band concert on the corner of 9th Avenue and Main Street. Four people are dead with three dying and around twenty are injured.
Creator
The Durango Democrat, Durango, Colorado USA
Publisher
Winfield Public Library, Winfield, KS USA
Date
1903-08-14
Rights
Format
text/plain
Type
Clippings
Citation
The Durango Democrat, Durango, Colorado USA, “Frightful Act of a Madman in The Durango Democrat, August 14, 1903,” Winfield Digital Collections, accessed June 23, 2026, https://winfield.digitalsckls.info/item/221.Text
THE DURANGO DEMOCRAT.
AN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER
VOLUME VI.
THE DURANGO DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1903.
NUMBER CLXXXIV
FRIGHTFUL ACT OF A MADMAN
Maniac Fired Into a Crowd of Five Thousand People During a Band Concert.
FOUR DEAD; THREE ARE DYING
The Band Had Just Finished Playing a Waltz When Insane Man Stepped From an Alley and Fired Into the Crowd of Listeners With a Double Berreled Shotgun Loaded With Bullets.
Winfield, Kas., Aug. 13.—At. nine o’clock tonight while Caman’s band was playing its weekly concert on Main street to a crowd of 5,000 peo-ple, Gilbert Twigg, a crazy man, 30 years of age, opened fire on the crowd with a double barreled shot gun load-ed with heavy bullets and as a result four are now dead, three are dying, and no less than twenty are injured, perhaps five or sux fatally. The dead are: Sterling Rice, a carpenter;
Dawson Timotson, a barber, whose brains were blown out; Bog Bowman, a carpenter of Oxford, Kas..
Gilbert Twigg, the man who did the shooting was killed by Officer Nichols. The band had just finished playing a waltz when Twigg stepped out from an alley a half block distant and de-liberately taking aim at the band-stand fired two shots. Oliver, the bandmaster, fell at the first shot, but the crowd, not realizing what had
happened, rushed toward the killer, believing that there had been an ac-cidental shooting of some kind. As the crowd closed in the crazy man discharged two. more shots at them, causing a scattering in every direc-tion. With the crowd fleeing the man stood in a demoniacal attitude, firing at random in every direction. Men and women shouted and shrieked and ran, but no one seemed able to stop the frightful carnage until Officer George Nichols confronted him and fired a bullet into his head, but be-fore life was extinct the demented man drew a revolver from his pocket and fired a shot into his own body.
Gilbert Twigg was a miller by trade having learned his trade twelve years ago at a little town 15 miles north of this city. He came to Winfield and became an employee of the Baden Mills, where he worked for a number of years.
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