The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-06
LIMIT REACHED
AND MOB FORMED
Citizens Could No Longer
Stand the InSoIence and Ar
roganCe of Invaders.
RIOT AT BELLINGHAM, WASH
AsIATIcS BADLY BEATEN AND
DRIVEN OUT.
RIOT AT BELLINGHAM, WASH

Beliingham, Wash, Sept. Six badly
beaten Hindus are in the hospital, 400
frightened and haIf-naked Sikhs are in
the jail and corridors OF the city hall,
guarded by policemen, and somewhere
between Bellingham and the British Co
lumbia line are $50 natives of India beat
en-. hungry. naked and half clothed max
ing their way along the Great Northern
railway, bound for Canadian territory ard
the protection of the British flag The
long expected has occurred, and drive
out the Hlndus' was heard throughout
the city and along the water front last
night.
Dragged From Their Beds.
The police were helpless. All authority
was paralyzed and for five hours a mob
of half thousand white men rlided the
mills where the blacks were working, hat
tered down doors of lodging houses shell
tering the foreigners and dragging the
invaders from their beds and with q beat
ing started them for the city limits with
orders to keep on going.
All that the police could do was here
and there save a native from the violence
of the mob. Several were pulled from the
water, where they had been chased; 9TH
ers were found naked. covering beneath
the docks on the tide flats. others bruised
and bleeding and were picked up and sent
10 the hospital.
Started for Canadian Line.
The trouble started at c and Holly
streets last night, a district with Indian
lodging houses. The houses were cleaned
out and the denizens started on their trek
Tor the Canadian line The mob then
swept down to the water front and mill
after mill was visited, the white en-
ployeS joining the mob, and every black
man was hustled out
Here the police suggested that the IN
desirables be taken to the Jail This was
nalled with delight and the blacks were
hustled along From this time on very
Few were beaten and the blOOdthirstiness
OF the mob was seemingly satisfied dur
ing the attack on the lodging houses.
The mob kept up its work along the wa
Ter front until early this morning, whsn
Iarson's mill at Whatcom Lake was Wis
tied and hundred blacks brought in
from there.
Four women were found this morning
among the crowd in the city building.
Outbreak Approved.
The city is quiet today. but there is
q strong undercurrent of opinion which
apparently approves the mob's action
and it may be found impossible to prose-
cute the leaders.
Racial feeling has played but a small
part in the affair. Every day whites are
being replaced in the mills by blacks. The
invaders have become bold and insolent
many instances Of women being pushed
) into the gutter, insulted on street cars
etc, being reported, and general uneasi-
ness being given as reasons for the out
break.
The Hindus are all British subjects and
their case was placed before the British
authorities today.
Armed Specials Sworn in.
Following special meeting of the city
council this morning Mayor Black took
charge Of the situation. Fifty armed sDe-
Gals were sworn in and the mayor de
clares he will have as many more if nee
essary to give the blacks full protection
Jobs have been offered the Hindus again
by the mill men and protection suarau-
teed, but the Hindus have been so thor
oughly frightened that they are drawing
their pay under police protection and are
disposed TO leave for Vancouver during
the day. Mob spirit is still rampant, and
II is said further attacks Will be made
tonight if any of the foreigners remain
The city and county authorities, however
say they will be able to cope with any
emergency.
Iarsons mill at Lake Whatcom, five
miles distant, one of the largest in the
country, will close down owing to the
trouble