The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-23
Attempt to Lynch a Negro Brute Causes a
Pitched Battle Between Officers
and Citizens.
Many Killed, Hundreds Wounded and Buildinos
Fired, While the Culprit is Safe
in Cleveland

doubt set fire to the city building beforo
morning as the flames are spreading
rapidly.
At 1 o'clock riot holds full sway IN front
OF the city building in which Is located
tle city prison The mob, composed
mostly of boys, is still at work. Column
~, ga nan has burned to the ground and
the city building is on fire The fire de-
partment has been called out and Ia
unable to do much work, as one fireman
mas oeen shot already and the rowdies
cut the hose at every opportunity There
Is some chance of saving the city build
ing: The mob is continually shouting
and hurting stones at the city building
Ihe trolley wires and some Of the cleo
trlc light and telephone wires in the
center OF the city have been cut.
II Is understood that call has been
sent TO Cleveland for militia The mavor
mas telegraphed also to the Cleveland
pohce department for forty policemen.
There is rumOr that the mob intends
to seize freight train and go to CIeve-
land to take Peck from the Jail there
The office of the Morning Journai-Beacon.
opposite the city building, has been part
ly demolished by stones and bullets.
All the officers who have been penned
up In the city building for two hours
escaped through rear window and ran
for their lives. The mob is yet firing
on the city building, and the militia has
been called for. One fireman, whose
name cannot be learned, was shot, and
he Will probably die. The mob Is now
making for the fremen, and as fast as
lines of hose are stretched. they are cut.
Arthur b. Sprague has just been car
ried from the street, shot in the head.
a man named Park Stair has been shot
in the leg. 1t is thought that no less
than dozen people have been wounded
in the midnight attack on the city build
ing. The mob has now commenced to
cut the electric light wires, and these
lines are being written from light fur
ntshed from the burning buildings
Thousands of people are yet gathered
In the neighborhood of the city build
ing. The mob that broke into the
Standard Hardware store was made UP
| mostly of boys, who carried away hun
dreds Of rifles and much other property.
| A half dozen prisoners are confined in
I the city prison, and they may perish un-
less they are soon released The num-
Der of people wounded in tonights fear
ful riot may run up into the hundreds
1:45 a. m-Dynamite is now being used
in front of the city building. The first
charge just fired, smashed all the win
dows in the city building and did much
other damage. All the prisoners have
been released from the city prison. The
crowd threatens to destroy the city
building with dynamite. Alonzo Man
chester, fireman, was seriously shot IN
the neck
John Hern was shot II the arm.
! CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 23-At o'clock
| this morning Mayor Young, of Akron.
| called up the Central police station in
this city by telephone and made an ur-
! gent appeal for help. He requested that
/ squad of police and an officer be quick
! lX sent from Cleveland to the aid of the
Akron authorities.
Mayor Young stated that the situation
was extremely critical, as the mob had
! the Akron policemen penned up In a
building and were about to set fire to It,
The mayor also said that he had called
on the Eighth regiment, National Guard
company, in Akron, but that the captain
had absolutely refused to call his men
out
PECK IN CLEVELAND.
CLEVELAND o.. Aug 22-This after
! non Sheriff Alfred Kelly and Prosecutor
Wanamaker of Summit county, arrived
in Cleveland, from Akron, with two col
| ored prisoners, Louis Peck, accused Of
assaulting the little Mas girl, and WILL
lam Howard, another colored man, accus-
ed of a minor offense, whom the Akron
authorities thought 1t best to remove
from within reach of the mob. Both were
! locked up in the county Jail. Peck tells
contradictory stories, but admits that he
took the little Mas girl out riding with
him last Monday
FOURTH MILITIA READY TO MOVE.
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 23.-Gov. Nash
has received the following request from
! the mayor of Akron for assistance to
quell the riot in that city:
akron, O., Aug. Bills Exce,Iency
| Gov. Nash, Columbus: Serious riot; ci y
! building besieged by a mob of sever al
/ thousand. Three or four people killed;
eight or ten seriously injured. Have or
dered out both local companies. They
| are unable to cope with the situation.
| Please sanction what I have done by
wire and order one or two more COM
panies, either from Cleveland or Canton
TO come to Akron at once Gail me by
telephone If you desire ful ther nfor-
nation wire me at once.
w. e. Young, Mayor OF Akron