Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-08-23
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O||IO'S DlSDdCe
oHlo's DISGRACE.
A Wild Mob Ruled Akron for Hours end
Killed and Plunder.

A Wild Mob Ruled Akron for Hours end
Killed and Plumber.
Early this morning august ~ ths
streets were thronssa. Company q Va
stationed abolt The ruins Of The burned
city hall. officials say tho papers d.
slroysd can not b replaced fsr less than
$4,000. fvo persons are dead, Two vfn
die, many arc injured. The property los
sxcluaivs Of official papers amounts b
sloo,0
Akron, O., Aug. 73-At meeting of
the city council today all saloons were
ordered closed for the present. Chief of
Police Harrison can not be found and
another policeman has been appointed
in his stead. The mob charges Harri-
son with being the man who fired the
first shot and precipitated the bloodshed
of last night.
Akron, o., Aug. 77-Two persons are
known to have been killed. several others
were MANNED. and for hours tonight the
streets of Akron were filled with wild.
uncomfortable mob. The trouble was
the outcome of an unsuccessful attempt
to lynch a negro charged with brutal
assault
The mob formed with the intention Of
lynching Louis Peck, negro who was
arrested today charged with having at
tempted to assault Christianz. the six
year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Theo
dore Mas, industrious and respectable
people. who live on Perkins hill
In the police court the prisoner plead
ed guilty and was bound over to the com.
mon pleas court ii $1,000 bail.
A large crowd gathered about the city
prison tonight at $3.50 o'clock and forced
in the doors. The prison was soon
packed with the mob, and the officers Of
fered no resistance, as Peck. earlier in
the evening. had been quietly taken to
Cleveland.
To satisfy the mob the officers sug.
gested that a committee Of six be APP.
pointed to search all the cells and 60
through every part OF the building. This
was done, and as the negro was not
found yell was made. Nov for the
county Jail"
A mad rush followed for the Jail, and
soon the Jail was in the hands OF the mob.
After going through the private apart
ments of the Jail the crowd started to
batter down the iron doors. Deputy
Sheriff Stone stood in front of the prison
doors and made speech.
He informed the crowd that Peck
could not be found there. and he told the
people in the mob to select committee
and he would allow the committee to
search the Jail from top to bottom. A
committee was quickly selected, and the
Jail was searched, every cell being enter
ed. Satisfied that the negro was not
there, the mob then rushed across the
street and forced open the doors Of the
county court house. The old court house
was soon packed, and all rooms search
ed except the room in the treasury de.
partment. A start was made to tear Of
the iron doors Of the treasury depart
ment, but the mob decided not to tackle
the job, and then the thousands of men
and boys again rushed back to the city
prison, crying for the blood of Peck.
The city prison was again surrounded
and hundreds of people forced their
way into the prison for the second time
insisting tina. Peck was there Mayor
Y,ung at this time appeared at one Of
the windows in the upper part Of the
building.
He addressed the mob as best he
could, saying that Peck had been tax er
out of the prison at o'clock by Sheriff
Kelly and driven out of the city in a
closed carriage. The people in the moi
would not believe the mayor and con