Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-08-23
MOB VIOLENCE IN AKRON
Rioters Seek to Lynch Negro and Destroy
the City Hall and Other Buildings
with Dynamite and Fire.
TWO CHILDREN KILLED In The RIOT


preaching dawn this morning, the riot
Gus mob which held possession of this
city throughout the night melted away.
AT o'clock company c, of the Sth Ohio
regiment, arrived on a special train
from Canton, the fourth regiment COM
ing from Columbus. The militiamen
were placed on guard duty around the
county buildings but they found little
to do. Thousands Of people came to
the city to see the ruins of buildings
destroyed by the mob last night. The
city hall had been totally ruined by dy-
Mantle and fire. The following were
killed: Glen Wade, aged II, son of Lii
liam Wade, shot through the heart
Rhoda Davidson, aged 4, daughter of j.
M. Davidson, shot through the brain.
Fatally injured: Fred Vorwick, buck
shot wound in the abdomen. Nineteen
others are wounded. Chief of police
Harrison has left the city. He is suf-
fering from a severe nervous shock.
Mayor Young this morning issued a
proclamation to close all saloons until
further orders.
AKRON'S LOSS.
Akron, Ohio, August 23--Chief of Po-
lice Harrison Is reported to be insane
Nine companies of the fourth regiment
arrived at 9.20. A special meeting of
council was held at 10 o'clock. In the
destruction of the municipal building,
the city lost all the records of the city
clerk and the city engineer. City En-
gineer Payne says that the loss Of his
department is fully half a million dol
lars.
ARACE RIOT.
Akron, Ohio, August 23-As the re-
suit Of last nights riot, two are dead,
two more will die, sixteen others are
more or less injured, and fully 5000, 900
of property has gone up in smoke. The
'ity hall is totally destroyed, and the
Columbian building, which adjoined the
city hall, Is heap Of ashes, and several
smaller frame buildings In the vicinity
are in ruins. The destruction was
wrought by wild mob which held pos
session of the city from dark last night
,stimated that the mob was composed
If not less than 1,50O men. Throughout
yesterday afternoon there were ominous
nutterings of a gathering Storm which
oroached. The authorities did every
thing in their power to quiet publi
opinion. but despite their efforts an i'm
nense crowd gathered around the jail
where Louis Peck, the alleged negro
rapist, was confined, and soon the cry
lynch the Niger" wasa on every
ongue In the meantime. the authori-
les quietly removed Pevk and another
negro prisoner from the jail to Cleve-
and in the custody of two deputy sher-
ifs. The mob, however, would not be-
ieve that the men had been taken
iway. AS night came on the fury grew
,pace, and finally eliminated in the as
sault shortly after midnight on the
court house and later on the city hall.
Immense charges of dynamite were
placed under the city and county build
ngs, and then to complete it's work,
he mob applied the torch.
IN JAIL AT CLEVELAND.
Cleveland, Ohio, August 23.-I.ouis
Peck, the Akron rapist, whose life the
Akron mob so eagerly sought last night,
s locked up in the county Jail in this
ity. He was brought here from Ak
on by the deputy sheriff together with
William Howard, another negro. who
had been a prisoner of the Akron Jail
,harged with some minor misdemeanor.