The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-09
THE POLICE WERE IN
STAT E Of ANlC5
Car: Loads Of Troops Being
Rushed From Cincinnati and "
Other Places lacks Are u
Becoming Intinlidated and
10 5Longc Make Boast
35 5.$ fill Threats. I'll

:(By Associated Press.J


SPRINGFIELD. \. o., March o. Intense
excitement prevails hero a t an early hour
Wednesday, morning. which not even the
presence OF seven companies or ma uonal
guard an allay. This excitement Is
shared by all the business mon and
property owners Of the city, who fear
that somo negroes will attempt to avetge
tho burning OF he lcyee district by
firing the downtown business houses or
their homes In the residence district.
ss SO far the negroes have not tried 10
make good their threats to dynamite
the county iail of.'even up With Sheriff
Routzain for permitting the negro mur-
derer Dickson to be taken by the nab
Monday night without The shedding Of
blood to save him. Not Il fourth OF the.
business district OF the city Is under
patrol by either militia or police, and T
looks as II Il close guard would have to
be kept for several days to prevent fir.
sthers sincendiarisms. I Is thought, how
ever, that tho troops now So hand viii
boz able sto save the western leveeS district
I'm Nv DIST VI Washington Street. which he
leaders openly declared they would set
4 tire to Ms soon al the work In the eastern
half Of the = tree wa COM p ed.
s There iss Ii ttle or no uIsord err. the mob
iof ZOO men standing quietly w;lt tchirg
Sthe spread Of the flames IN the neigh,
3torhood Of Spring and allagher Streets.
and apparently ready to help Z 9 IT should
sh6w signs OF spreading beyond the con-
Efl,Ies they originally set for IL. s3 stE
When the leaders OF the mob passed
down off Of East High Street early last.
evening to begin the work of burning the
slevee residences. gFather j ohm Cogan, q s.
fsIstant pastor OF st. RaphaeEs Church,
got down on his knees on the sidewalk
and Implored them to- desist in their work,
as they might start a fire they would not;
be able to control. The lncendiaries
paused only moment; few of them
cursed him and then went quickly on to.
be- gin their task. So far, the fire loss
56oes not exceed $50, 900 9 s55s.
ByG:3O o'clock q crowd of o.OC0 men had
assembled along tho Big -Four Railroad
tracks, almost blocllading Washington:
street. which is known as IL he 4 e1.ey W
from Fountain Avenue. Two hundred
negroes were clustered together Just west
sof Fountain Avenue in the 11evee dis
itrict, near the place called %Honky Ionk.
The Eegroes were unusually quiet, and
seemed 10 be. waiting for a. start 70 DC
iynada by the white men. The other
crowd was boistsrolls, c, ind 7s vi there were
frequent yells and seyarnl pistol shots,
heard although no one has been re-
ported injured SO far
LES" Thonas's Place Fired.
5s At 1880 the threat Of the mob, frc-;
9auently made through the, day and eve
ming, was finally made good. and n VOL
3un,e Of flame was seen to shoot up from
the rear OF a place occupied by Les
Thomas. n saloor keeper Preceding the,
firing or the building the mob, at q dis,
Stance OF a hundred feet. shot at tho
front of the building for q half hour.
built is not known whether any OF the