The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-28
 MOB
OHIO TOWNS WHITES ATTACK NEE
 GRO SECTION.
Houses are Fired and the Governor of the State Was Asked to send
 All Troops Possible. Policemen Hurt.

Springfield. O.. Feb. 2S.--At 9 o'clock last night mob violence broke out here as the result of shooting In the rail- road yards early yesterday morning, in which NJ M Davis. a brakeman, was perhaps fatally shot by two negroes. Preston Ladd of BeIlefontaine and Ed ward Dean of this city. Ladd. Who was wounded, was taken to the hospt- tai where he lies in ward adjacent to his victim. Dean was taken to Day ton after a hurried conference of of- ficiais.
 mob of .O00 men and boys formed and marched to ''The Jungles, local- ity inhabited by negroes, with the an nounced purpose of burning that sec ton.
 Mayor Todd, shortly After 9 o'clock. asked that Companies B and F of the 3rd regiment be called out. The mob soon reached the Jungles and battered one house to pieces with stones and uosts used as batterlng rams. A gem eral fire alarm was sounded The sounding of the Eongs served to i'll the streets with people and the feeling in the crowd was tense
 At 10 D. m. the mob entered Kempler s saloon in East Columbia Street, and quickly footed it. Kempler and his wife fled, leaving their three children asleep in d room over the saloon. The saloon was riddled with bullets and stones. and it was only by the hardest efforts of the police and firemen that way was forced through the mob and the children rescued. After the pillag- ing of the saloon. drunkenness was a feature of the riot,
 At II o'clock members of the mob broke through a cordon of police and set fire to a house in The Jungles, which was quickly burned down. Sergeant Creager, who had charge of the squad of police, was hit on the head with a brick and seriously wounded
 A request was sent out at 10 o'clock for the xenia military company, but the troops had not arrived at II o'clock.
 At midnight six houses which had been fired by the mob were burning fiercely and the police had apparently lost control of the situation Only six members of the local militia responded to the mayors call and the xenia com papy, which was expected, had not ar rived.
 At 12:15 a. m. the city authorities succeeded in assembling parts or com panies B and F of the 3rd regiment, O. N C.. which are stationed here. The total force numbered about seventy-five men. They are now on the scene of the fire and have pushed the mob back both ways in Columbia Street, east from Water Street and west from Foster Street.
 Just as. the troops arrived, one more building was fired, and no efforts were made to save 1t. The efforts of the police, the firemen and the guardsmen are now directed solely to forcing the rioters back and saving the property outside of the doomed square.
 Sheriff Almoney has just wired Gov ernor Pnttison the following: Send all possible troops tonight and hold others in readiness for tomorrow"
 Sergeant Creager. the policeman hit in the face with brick is in serious condition. The mob is standing and ieering the military men but show of bayonets has sufficed so far to keep the rioters on the move. The rumor that out of town troops arc momentar- fly expected is having a auieting ef- feet on the mob.