The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-08-24
Akron Mob Wants to Lynch
Two Negroes.
ACCUSED OF ASSAULT,
Prisoner is Spirited Away and the Enraged
Mob Terrorizes the Town with
Torch and Gun.

Special to the Bee.
Akron, Ohio, Aug. o. When day
dawned in Akron this morning it re-
vealed scene of desolation and the evi-
dences of violence and lawlessness un-
paralleled in the history of the city.
Rioters had done their awful work and
disappeared. One child was lying dead,
and nearly score of persons were suffer
ing from wounds from pistol bullets,
buckshot and missiles. The city build
ing was heap of smouldcring ruins,
and beside it steamed the water soaked
ashes of Columbia hall. The police
force of the city was disorganized and
scattered. The chief had left the city.
Electric wires, deadly to touch, lay
across the streets in the vicinity of the
burned buildings, and debris of all kinds
was scattered far and near. The down
town streets were just as the mob left
them, although nothing was being done
by the rioters. This morning crowds of
spectators, thousands in number, hung
around waiting for something to turn
up. The trouble was the outcome of an
unsuccessful attempt to lynch negro
who is charged with a brutal assault on
white girl. Last night the mob formed
to lynch Louis Peck, negro who had
been arrested yesterday charged with
having attempted to assault Christiana,
the six-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Theodore Mass, who live on Per
kins hill.
Akron, o., Aug. 22.-Two persons were
known to have been killed. several others
were MANNED and for hours tonight the
streets of Akron were filled with an un-
controllable mob. The trouble was the
outcome of an unsuccessful attempt to
lynch a negro who is charged with a
brutal assault.
The mob formed with the intention of
lynching Louis Peck, negro who was
arrested today, charged with having at
tempted to assault Christina, the 6-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Theodore
Mass, who live on Perkins hill. In
police court the prisoner pleaded guilty
and was bound over to the common pleas
court in 5000 bail.
At 10 o'clock the mob began for the
third time to attack the city prison
Some one in the crowd began shooting
at the building, and this was followed by
several more shots. The officers in the
building appeared at the windows and
began to shoot over the heads of the
mob. A man with shotgun then free
at the officers. 1t is said that several o
the officers were wounded. The Grove
then began to smash in the windows o
the city building and the firing became
general. Hundreds of shots were ex
changed, and one boy was carried dead
from the street. 1t is certain that doz
ems of men were wounded.
Shortly after midnight the mob broke
into hardware store and stole all the
firearms and ammunition they could fine
including guns, rifles and revolvers ano
proceeded to the city building and opened
fire on the defenders and finally set fire
to the Columbia hall, which adjoins the
city building. The flames are spreading
rapidly and the city building is likely te
be destroyed.
l a. m.-All of the officers who have
been penned up in the city building fol
three hours escaped through rear win
dow and ran for their lives. The mob is
firing on the city building, and the mill
tia has been called for. One fireman
whose name can not be learned. was sho
and will probably die. The mob is nov
making for the firemen, and as fast a.
lines of hose are stretched they are cut.
Arthur E. Sprague has just been car
ried from the street, shot in the head.
man named Parksstair has been shot il
the leg. 1t is thought that not less thar
a dozen people have been wounded. Th,
mob has now commenced to cut thu
electric light wires. and these lines are be
ing written by light furnished from tn,
burning buildings. Thousands of peo
pie are yet gathered in the neighborhoot
of the city building. The mob tha
broke into the Standard hardware stor,
was made up mostly of boys, who carried
away hundreds of rifles and much othel
property. A half lfdozen prisoners ar,
confined in the city prison, and they
may perish unless they are soon released
A number of people were hurt in to
nights fearful riots, and it may run int
the hundreds.
At l o'clock this (Thursday) morning
the riot still holds full sway in front O
the city building in which is located tn.