The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-02-28
NEGROES ARE FLEEING
FROM MOB LAW
By Associated Press


Springfield, o., Feb. 2s The
militia under Major Horace Keifer
: N charge of the riot district. No
Further trouble is expected. The
saloons are being kept closed.
Adiutant General Hughes and
Colonel critchfeld called on the
mayor today and later returned to
Columbus. The Xenia, Urbana
and two local companies of militia
are on duty.
The negroes are leaving the city
Tor Columbus, Dayton, Xenia, Ur-
hana and other points.
An infuriated mob of 1900 per-
sons paraaed the streets last night
swearing vengeance upon Preston
iadd and Edward Dean, negroes.
who Monday night wounded Martin
NJ Davis, Big -Four railroad brake
man. and Earl Sulking, a baseball
PLAYER. The mob formed on the
public square and when threats Of
lynching were made Major Todd
called out companies B and Il Of the
Third regiment, Ohio National
Guard.
The mob marched the negroes to
the settlement wrecked and fred the
saloons and then razed the buildings,
the negroes fleeing. The police
were powerless.
No atempt was made on the jail,
a Dean was spirited away 10 Day
ton. The hospital where Ladd is
lying injured is under heavy guard.
The mob son reached the Jung
les and battered one house TO pieces
with stones and posts used as batter
ing rams. A general fire alarm was
sounded. The sounding of the gong
served to fill the streets with people.
At 10 p. m. the mob entered
Kcmpter's saloon on East Columbia
street and quickly looted it. Kcmp-
ter and his wife fed, leaving their
three little children asleep in a room
over the saloon. The building was
riddled with bullets and stones and
il was only by the hardest efforts Of
the police and firemen that a way
was forced through the mob and the
children rescued. After the pillag-
ing OF the saloon drunkenness was
an added feature of the riot. At IL
o'clock members Of the mob broke
through a Gordon of police and set
fire 10 house in the "Jungles,
which was quickly burned down.
Sergeant Creger. who had charge
Of the squad Of police, was hit on
The head with brick. and serious
u wounded.
4 request was sent out at 10
o'clock for the Xenia military COM
pany
At ~ 80 a. m. the city authorities
succeeded in assembling parts Of
Companies B and + of the Third
regiment, o. n. G.. which are sta
toned here. The total force num-
hers about rs men. They went on
the scene Of the FIRE, and pushed the
mob back both ways in Columbia
street. east from Water street, and
went from Foster street. just as
the troops arrived one more building
was fred and no efforts were made
Ia save it. The efforts of ~ 1lice'
and firemen and the guardsmen
were directed solely to forcing the
rioters back and saving the property
outside of. the doomed square.
At midnight six houses which.
had been fired by the mob, were
burning fiercely and the police had
apparently lost control Of the Sit
uation. Only six members Of the
local militia responded 10 the
MAYORS call and the Xenia COM
panv had not arrived.
sheriff Almoney at IL 40 a.1qn.
wired Governor Pattison as follows:
Send all possible troops tonight
and hold others in readiness for
tomorrow"
Sergeant Creger. the policeman.
hit in the face with a brick is in
serious condition. The mob stoned
the militiamen but show Of bayon-
cts zuifced to keep the rioters on the
move.
The mob reign came to an end at
one o'clock this morning. The ar
rival Of three companies Of the Ohio
National Guard checked the work of
the rioters and permitted the firemen
to extinguish the fires in the negro
settlement. An hour before arrival
of the military companies the police
formed Gordon around the jung
les and fred upon the crowd, but it
Is believed no one was injured.