Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-07-06

DE
erous arrests Of the negroes they are
now making.
Every time a negro II taken into
custody the police are applauded ana
hundreds OF people are following thp
wagon. whole patrol wagon load Of
negroes was picked up on Water street
few minutes ago aud about 800 shots
were fired as they passed up Main
street. The mob ~ still going through
the streets looking for negroes,
The Acme hotel had TO close Its doors
tonight because an Of its col0red SER
wants became panle-stricken and ran
away,
NEGROES FIRE ON MOB.
After the mob had been In the Jail
only a few minutes word was brought
that gang OF negroes was congregat-
ed Mt Rudd Fruits saloon at No, il5
Uuper Fourth street and was firing from
windows and the roof upon the whites
as they passed.
The mob Immediately decided TO
lombard Il. A hundred or more armed
mon, upon command, fell into line and
marched from the jail and up Fourth
street into the market square, hating
In front Of Fruits place.
Negroes were 10 be seen below and
at most of the windows, but they
quickly dispersed ON the arrival of the
mob Then. upon the command Of the
leader. q v0lley OF 100 shots was fred
into the building, completely wrecking
IT,
II was known at the time that there
was a large number Of negroes In the
saloon. II is thought that many OF
them were hid In the large buildings
surrounding the saloon. Several are re-
ported shot, but no dead bodies have
been brought in.
PRISON SURROUNDED.
At 2:45 this morning the Jail Is still
surrounded by 500 persons, A mob OF
200 white men, armed with rifles, Is
securing the city looking for negroes
and shooting into well-known negro re-
sorts.
The Jail presents battered appear
ance. One window has been crushed
IN, and bars and stone copings are gone,
a second window Is wrecked where the
batterng ram went through the walls,
and bullet marks by the dozen can be
seen on the walls,
FLEE FROM THE MOB,
Whether the mob Is leaving any dead
behind Is not known, as everyone fees
before the crowd and no search has
been made for the dead The mob does
not stay to inspect the results of its
work
After Leaving the wrecked place OF
Budd Fruit the mob Of desperate men,
swelled to between 300 and 400 ran
down Sycamore street. By-standers
seized with the mob fever joined them,
At First and Sycamore streets an at
tack was made on the store OF Boett-
cher 4 Kellogg This was repused by
an employe of the company who de-
clared that the store contained no more
guns.
MOVE ON BAPTIST TOWN.
The crowd then passed to Water
street where the lack Of negroes
| seemed to rankle the men. Some one
yelled ION to Baptist Town"-where
many negroes live The march on Bap-
list Town was begun with the unarmed
men bowling for gune.
On Main street near Fifth some one
! yelled that the store Of II. NJ. Bush &
! Co., should be attacked. His sugges-
| ton was Immediately answered by a
| rush on the glass plate front In two
minutes the door was forced open and
| the big windows shattered by gun bar
rels, Policemen rushed up and drove
| the mob away.
About this time G a. M the men
were still crying for victims. The mob
rushed to Wilmerding's gun store and
| forced its way in. Ten minutes later
the mob had 300 additional guns; boxes
| Of cartridges were grabbed, and the
march to Baptist Town, where the ne
| gro colony lives, was resumed. The
mob continued its rush for Baptist
| Town, with the intention OF stopping on
the way and robbing q powder maya
| zine to secure explosives with which TO
blow up the negro colony
SHOT AT WHITE WOMEN.
While Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Press
Bobb We're seated on their porch last
night two negroes passed up Third
| street, One of them said: There are
some d-n white folks" and with these
words both drew revolvers and fired
One Of the bullets came within an inch
of Mrs Robb. They were panic-strick-
en-. rushed into the house and fastened
the door After firing several more
shots at the house the two negroes
continued up the street..
MILITIA ORDERED OUT
Anderson, Ind. July Gov. Durbln
said this morning that he had just re-
! ceived word OF the race riot that had
broken out at Evansville during the
night and that he had ordered the To-
cal militia in arms at once TO restore
order In the city. He made arrange
ments at once to get into close touch
with the authorities at Evansville.
RIOT GROWS WORSE.
Evansville, Ind, July 6.-The race
riot began growing still worse at 4
o'clock this morning The police sent
after the mob which started for Bap-
list Town to blow up the negro colony.
teephoned back to headquarters that
they were powerless, as the mob was
armed with rifles and they had only
reyolyers.
Just after dawn the mob began bonn
harding the houses Of the colored peo-
pie In Baptist Town and the police had
reports that many persons were
wounded IN the battle that followed,
and that there are probably some
deaths. The police obtained no names.
There is confirmed report that sew
eral houses have been blown up.
Up to this time a a. M the militia
mas not rallied but efforts to get Il to-