New-York tribune., 1903-07-08
READY FOR THE RIOTERS.
uoRE SOLDIERS SENT.
DurEin Increases Guard
at EUanSUille.

s,o Ind July General William
commander Of the National Guard OF
hcA -. and Quartermaster General Oran
tnS .ar,e here this morning to take charge
Fei.s' F ,-oons. and this afternoon the four COM
o. .l - infantry and the battery OF artillery
pal'', ,-d,anapolis were added TO the force mere.
from i,saoolis troops were sent on the advice
.be officials and business men Oh 'ilS city
n 'ne NJ Durbin ordered the soldiers to mobil-
Govern, arroory this morning, and then tele-
He % the Mayor and about twenty of the
ti.,g business men Of the city to ask II they
'ss-a -E, more troops were needed.
tho'e ,tgb+,s rloting and the killing and
ss,g of nearly hvescore members OF the
NouNs.. an extremely SOLDERING effect On the
NOV - ,,nrulv men who have held the place
VIZ -. Of terror for four days, but the Mayor
80 councillors remembering that there
otber cause ior the work Of the last two
.han the turbulent passions OF the men
..r,sd and the spirit of mob violence that
.ss5 them decided that the only safe
po--a - ,vould be 10 ask for the soldiers Ac-
.i.1v AZ . o'clock Governor Durbin issued
=. orders that brought them here.
'', .,orirg General Mckee told Mayor Covert
-. c,s+e would not take control Of the city
III the local authorities had exhausted their
,-oss and the Mayor formed committee
!. .,,bl,c safety 10 help him in preserving order.
!. ar.s decided to place the guarding Of the city
= ,hs hands of Police Chief Houke, and to in
.oose the police force by thirty-two men,
-,.king it one hundred The soldiers VIII help
:, nollce tonight and patrol the city. The
,ofics are armed with shotguns and revolvers
~ nersons found in the street who cannot give
sstisfactory explanation of their business VIII
:, cen, II their homes under guard
.serH7F Ia
statement;
, r.fcjrata no further acts Of violence but
., he fair / will say that ] did not suspect the
.es1,iii+,- Of such an occurrence as that OF last
sight I believe that the presence OF me troops
n the city and the strict measures adopted are
having the effect Of quoting the people
r.. fsir grounds today are transformed into
,eero settlement Fully two thousand of the
h,.,ls left their homes last night and went into
,.mp there. Tor hours while the rioting was
!. n-ogress in the city the negroes kept up
tusiua5e 10 frighten the whites away. Others
~ the terror stricken negroes appealed to the
no1ic- for protection. and were guarded in the
cation and neighboring houses Twenty-Five
colored men stormed a freight train and went
~ # N Vincennes Fifteen armed negroes,
hraver than their fellows and evidently looking
for trouble in secluded spots with small bands
of whites were arrested
Jacksonville. Ind, July Lee Brown. the
shaver Of Policeman Massey, of Evansville,
whose iced precpitated the race riots there,
arrived at the Indiana Reformatory shortly
after noon to-day He cannot possibly recover
from his wound
Frank Ianable the eighth victim of the battle
IN front Of the county jail last night. died this
evening He was twenty-three years old and a
stove moulder by occupation. Fred Koppler if
teen years old died this afternoon.