The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-24

GLENN WADE. aged eleven years. son
of Lillian Wade, Empire Hotel, shot
through the heart.
Fatally Wounded
RHODA DAVIDSON, aged four years,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j. Nj. Davidson,
Ill Allyn street, shot through the head.
Severely Wounded
FRED voRwoRK, 4s4 North street.
buckshot wound in abdomen.
w. H. DUSSEL. flesh wound In leg, 2OI
North Ford street.
PARK STAIR flesh wound in leg. 104 Hill
JOHN E. WASHER. scalp wound. from
brick.
JOHN A. AHERN. painter, 14s Benjamin
street flesh wound, arm.
E. CHMELITSKI, 143 South Main street.
ALBERT GRANT, flesh wound below
knee
FRANK soURERs. Carroll and spicer,
ALBERT STEVENS. living at Graman
Station, Northfield, shot.
FIREMAN l.. MANCHESTER, flesh
| wound. cheek and neck.
FIREMAN w. ROPEKE, flesh wound in
FIREMAN MINOR FRITZ. flesh wound
| in cheek
FIREMAN JOHN DENIoUs. flesh
FIREMAN A. ELDERLY, flesh wound,
| breast
FIREMAN DAVID PHILIPS. flesh
| POLICEMAN ALvA @. GREENLESE,
| struck over heart by brick.
| POLICEMAN JOHN KING, knee injured
by brick.
| POLICEMAN Ed DUNN, struck by
brick.
SCENES WHEN DAY DAMNED.
Whey day .dawned in Akron Thursday
morning it revealed a scene of desolation
| and the evidence of violence and lawless-
ness unparalleled in the history of this
city. The rioters had done their work and
had dispersed. One child was lying cold in
death and nearly a score of people were
| suffering from the wounds of pistol balls,
buckshot and missiles. The city building
was heap of smoldering ruins. and be-
| Columbia Hall. The police force of the
| city was disorganized and scattered. The
Live electric wires lay across the streets
in the vicinity of the burned buildings and
debris of all kinds scattered far and
near. The down town streets were just
as the mob left them, and although moth
! ing was being done by the rioters, crowds
| of spectators, hundreds in number, hung
| around, waiting for something to turn up.
| At 6 o'clock the crowds began to increase.
| A policeman appeared and then another,
timid at first, but with increasing assur-
| ance, as no violence was offered. Then
! Company c, of Canton, detachment of
/ the gallant Eighth Ohio Regiment,
marched down the street from the train,
and hating before the ruins of the build
ing. was at once set TO patrolling the fire
| lines. There was no evidence of i'll will or
| disquiet on the part of the crowd at the
lines. There was no talk of violence. The
| turbulent element had skunk away with
the coming of daylight and order was once
more fully restored after an awful night
| of terror and anarchy.
| At 9:20 a. m. nine companies of the Fourth
Regiment arrived in the city and marched
| &c the scene of last nights rioting.
| Shortly before 10 o'clock Mayor w. z
| Young issued proclamation closing every
| sa.oon in Akron until further orders. The
mayor is taking every possible precautior
| 10 prevent a renewal of the outbreaks. II
| the situation demands more drastic meas
1 ures the mayor states that the city will be
! put under martial law.
| INNOCENT ONES SUFFERED.
In the Akron riot history again repeated
| itself-the innocent ones were those TO suf.
fer. while the guilty ones were practically
| uninjured.
| On the advice of friends Mayor Young
| who had been on the scene at $50 a. m.
| when Company arrived. sought his of.
fee by back streets and alley ways, as Il
| was feared his presence so early after The
| rioting would cause a fresh outbreak
OF the victims OF mob violence Glenn
Wade was shot and almost instantly killed
He was in the mob. and a bullet from
revolver pierced his heart. The lad wa:
only eleven years of age Another limo
cent who will die is Rhoda Davidson. IN,
four-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs j
| NJ. Davidson. of No. Ill Allyn street Sit
ting in a carriage with her mother anc
| fatner. On the outskirts of the mob bull
let found lodgment i'm her skull No hop,
is held out for her recovery.
The resistance shown by the police of
fcers and city officials In the City Hall onl,
| served 10 lash the mob into greater frenzy
Failing in it's effort TO force an entranc,
into the City Hall. a portion of the mol
ran to the store of the Standard Hardwar,
Company. on Main street. about one an,
half blocks from the scene OF the riot
ing. In a twinkling q large plate glas
window ia the front Of the store wa