The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1906-03-02
lGROES ARE FLEEING
FROM mob LAW.
fjBr Associated Press.l

BY Associated fIess.
Springfield, o., Fen 2s-The.
militia under Major Horace keiter
& 81 charge Of the riot district No
further trouble is expected. The.
saloons are being kept closed
Adiutant General Hughes and
Colonel Cfitehfeld called on the
mayor today and later returned to
Columbus. The Xenia, Urbana
and two local companies of militia
are on duty.
The neEt6e salEe leaving the city
for Columbus, DaYt0Ib Aenla, II
lana and Sothef points:
An infAtiated mob Of 1900 Per:
sons paraded the streets last night
swearing vengeance upon Preston
I,add and Edward Dean, negroes
who Monday night wounded Martin
II. Davis, Big -Four railroad brake,
man and Earl Sulking, baseball
T,layer Tie mob formed on the
pnbiic square and when threats Of
iynchiinc we're made Major Todd
called ont companies Band T OF the
Third regiment, Ohio National
Guard.
The mob marched. the negroes to
HE se.tlement wrecked and fired the
saloons and then razed the buildings,
~ .,osss a on;ru The police
were powerlcss.
No attempt was made on the jail,
as Dean was spirited away to Day
ton. The hospital where Laid =
living injured is under heavy guard.
The mob son reached the Jung
lesv and battered one house to pieces
with stones and posts used as batter bate
inc rams. A general fire alarm was
sounded. The sounding Of the gpRta|
served to fill the streets with people.
at 10 p. m. the mob entered
Kempter's saloon on East Columbia
street and quickly looted it. Kemp
fer and his wife fled, leaving then
three little children asleep in q room
ever the saloon. The building was
riddled with bullets and stonas and
# was only by the hardest efforts OF
The police and firemen that a way
Was forced, tlirough- the mob and the
children rescued. After the piliag-
inc Of the saloon drunkenness was
an added feature of the riot. At II
o'clock members of the mob broke
through. a Gordon Of police and SCI
.fire to d house in the ~Jungles.
which vas quickly burned down.
Sergeant Creger, who had charge
of the squad Of police, was hit OF
the head with brick, and serious
" wounded.
a request was sent out at ~
o'clock for the Xenia military com
pany.
succeeded in assembling parts O
Companies B and E Of the Thirt
regiment, o. n, G., which are sta
toned here, The total force mum
bers about rs men,. They went OF
the scene Of the fire, and pushed thu
mob back both ways in Columbi'
street, east from Water street, ant
went from Foster street. just a
the troops arrived one more building
was fred and no efforts were mad
to. save ii. The efforts Of the polic'
and firemen and the guardsmel
v-cra directed solely to Forcing tn
rioters back and saving the propert.
outside ofsthe doomed square.
At midnight six houses which
had been fred by the mob, wer'
burning fiercely and the police hat
apparently lost control of the sit
nation. Only six members of TIN
local militia responded to thu
mayors call and the Xenia com
pa6y had not arrived.
Sheriff Almoney at,12:40 a. m
wired Governor Pattison as follows
Send all possible troops tonight
and hold others IN readiness fol
tomorrow.
Sergeant Creger, the policeman
Iiit in the face with brick is in {
serious condition. The mob stoned
The nilitianien but show of bayon-
pficed to keep the rioters on the