Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-08-30
MOB RULES AN OHIO CITY
Angry Citizens of Akron Fight with
Sheriff's Posse in Effort to
Lynch a Negro.
TWO PERSONS DEAD AND OTHERS HURT.
Failing to Secure the Prisoner the
Crowds Loot Gun shops aud set
Fire TO Buildings-lxe Dynamite
on the Pris0n-GON. Nash sends
Troops to Aid officials.

Akron. O.. Aug. ga mob of sew
eral thousand frenzied persons. infuri-
ated over an assault upon the little
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Mas by Louis Peck, colored man.
searched the city prison, the county
Jail and the old courthouse Wednes-
day night for the negro, engaged in a
battle of bullets with officers of the
law. killed Two persons and wounded
many more. set fire to Columbia hail
and the city building. destroying both
using dynamite on the latter. Shortly
after midnight the mob broke into
hardware store and sto.e all the am
munition and firearms in the place.
including guns. rifles and revolvers,
proceeded to the city building and
opened fiIe on the defenders. at the
same time applying the torch to Column
bia hall. The flames spread rapidly and
efforts Of the fire department to stop
the impending conflagraticn We're re-
sisted by the rioters.
search the JntIs.
Peck was arrested Wednesday and
murmurs of gathering trouble caused
the sheriff secretly to transfer the
prisoner 10 Cleveland. The report that
he had confessed spread rapidly and
the mob gathered soon after dark. Not
| believing the statement of the sheriff
that Peck had been spirited out of
the city the crowd sent committees
through the city prison and the coun-
ty iai. to search for the negro.
This proving fruitless the mob gath
cred in front of the city Jail. threatens
| ing its destruction unless Peck be pro-
| duced, Lynching was on the tongue
of everyone in the crowd, and even the
rope had been provided and was dang
ling from the arm of a citizen.
Mayor ". l.. Young FASTENED TO the
building and mounting the steps called
upon the crowd to disperse. pledgine-
his word thar the prisoner had been
escorted out of town.
Attack on CITY Prison.
At ten o'clock the mob began TO at
tack the city prison for he third time.
In the excitement some ore fired shot,
which was followed by n fusil,ade. The
officers in the building appeared at the
! windows and began to shoot over the
heads of the people. a man armed
with shotgun leveled his weapon at
the officers and they were soon made
the target for the mob'S fire.
An Understandable scene followed. Sew
eral of the policemen fell wounded, 9TH
ers' We're struck by bricks and other
missiles hurled by the mob, and the re-
turn fire of he laws officers wrought
havoc in the ranks of the mob.
The Victims.
Two people are dead. three fatally
wounded and several others badly hurt
The dead:
Davidson. four-year-old child of John
NJ. Davidson, shot dead while sitting in a
| baby carriage.
Glenn Wade ten years old, shot through
the heart
The fatally wounded:
Fireman. name unknown; shot in the
| body. will die.
neck: viii! die.
Fred V. Orwick. % years old. of 43 North
street: hit by a charge of buckshot, dying
at the hospital.
Arthur L. Sprague. shot in the head cam
not live.
Troops Called Out.
Columbus. o.. Aug. 23.-Gov. Nash
| has received telegram from the sher-
if of Summit county asking for militia
to que!i the riot at Akron. The ia
nous Fourth regiment will be sent to
the scene of the trouble.
Awed by Troops.
Akron. O.. Aug. "a. After Wedncsa
Gay nights terrible experiences Akron
is quiet. Six hundred militia are in
town. and if the rioters of % hours
ago had any disposition TO renew their
attacks on law and order. the presence
of the national "uart: has evidently
SCOT thing effect.
Thousands, of people came to this
city yesterday to see the ruins of the
buildings destroyed by the mob. The
:ity hall is "A complete wreck anG none
Of the city records We're saved.