The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-09
HIO MILITIA CALLED OUT
RDERED TO SPRINGFIELD TO
 PREVENT RACE RIOT.

ttsr Feeling Owing to Monday Nights Whites Burn the Negro Leyse District-Excitement Increases Throughout the Day and Night, Re- suiflng an the Mayor Sending Urgent Request to the Governor for Troops. Springfield, Ohio, March S.-Threats roughout the day and tonight to lrn the levee, the negro district of the ty, has confirmed Mayor c. J. Bowlus
 his belief that more trouble is brew tonight, and he has asked Cover pr Herrick for troops. Two companies i've been promised to reinforce the two cal companies.
 Many of the negroes of the city are rly and moody tonight, and it is alized that only a spark is needed to # off the magazine of race war. rowds of whites are gathering in the cinity of the levee, and all the day 5lice have been ordered to report for aty for the night.
 At 9.30 O clock the crowd in the levee strict had increased to fifteen hundred Id one or two revolver shots have been red at random. The excitement is Rowing and might easily pass beyond lie control of the local police. As yet XAe two local companies have not been dered out, and they will not be if 1tside troops arrive in time. In con- last with last night, not negro is to seen in the downtown districts, al- Rough hundreds of them are thought
 be heavily armed and waiting an at ok. All the saloons throughout the ty have been closed.
 A. 11:20 the threat of the mob was hally made good, and a volume of ane was seen to shoot up from the lar of a place occupied by Les" homas, a saloonkeeper. Preceding the ring Of the building, the mob, at a stance of hundred feet, shot at the ont of the building for half an hour, lt it is not known whether any of the Ecupants had remained In the build g, and if they did, whether any fatal- les resulted from the shooting. The re is spreading both ways from Thom-
 place. It is thought the mob will not lera.e any effort of the department
 put out the fire in the levee district, It offer no resistance in the attempts
 confine the fire to the buildings along Tashington street, known as the levee. hese buildings are dilapidated frame ructures, ranging from one to three ories They are for the most part sa- ons, dwelling and small rooning ouses The militia has not yet arrived
 sufficient numbers to attempt to quell be mob.
 It is understood that the negroes are ghly incensed at Sheriff Routzahn for pt using greater force in protecting ixon. Sheriff Routzahn had been warn that the instant the torch was ap- lied in Washington street, he had etter remove his family from the jail, / that that institution was to be immediate
 dynamited.
 At midnight the entire block in Wash gton street is on fire, with no hope of Ewing any of the buildings. While the hstern portion of the levee is doomed # is thought that the department will able to confine the confagration to he region. east of Spring street. Mem ers Of the mob openly declare that hen their work in the eastern levee lstrict is completed they will transfer heir efforts to that portion west of the liz Four station and the Arcade hotel. his portion of the West Washington treet is also known as the levee and he buildings are similar to those in the hstern portion.
 Among the places in the west levee istrict are number that are resorts or the colored people, and in one of hem Dixon shot Collis.
 The arrival of the out of town militia lone can save these places, and a rainload of troops from several towns etween here and Cincinnati are anx- pusly awaited. Apparently the ne- roes all over the city are becoming ntimidated and their boasts made in he early part of the evening are no onger heard. Mayor Bowlus is in con- tant communication with Governor Ierrick, the latter fully realizing the seriousness of the situation.
 Columbus, Ohio, March S.-Upon ur- gent represent ations from Mayor Bow us, of Springfield, Ohio, that a race war is imminent, as 6 result of the ynching of the negro Dixon, Gov ernor Herrick tonight ordered eight companies of state militia to that city 10 preserve order. Adjutant- General Crutchfield at once arranged for the mobilization of the troops. Besides the two companies at Springfield, compa- nies at Urbana Dayton, xenia, Miami and Piqua were called out.
 Governor Herrick's first order to Mayor Bowlus was to issue proclama- tion ordering the closing of all saloons Next he ordered the colored members of Company A. Ninth battalion, to rest on their arms in the armory and see that hone of the guns was stolen.
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