The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-16
PLANS WERE MADE ID
 EXTERM|NATE ALL THE
 NEGROES IN SPRINGFIELD
Mob Shows Utter Disregard of Sol dIery and Commits Outrages Right Under the Noses of the Men
 With the Guns.

Springfield. H.. August 16,-(SpeciaL)- William Dunnigan, negro, was shot, his throat cut, and then hanged by mob two blocks south of the capitol at 9 o'clock tonight.
 white man was killed this evening by negroes at White City, two miles east of Springfield.
 As the blood red prairie sun sank to- night into the fields of waving corn that hedge about this city, where lie the bones of him who said: With charity for all and with malic toward none," the people trembled with terror and alarm.
 And well they might. for the day that succeeded the first awful night of the war between the negro and the white man had brought with it threat or terrible vengeance, more terrible far than the vengeance that had already cost three human lives and the shooting and maim- ing of several scores of men, the burn Ing of half hundred houses, the wreck ing and footing of a dozen places or business and the revolting lynching or cringing, covering negro in the bright glare of burning homes and in the full view of helpless women and children, who were fleeing before drunken, angry mob.
 The thing that struck fear to the hearts of all who heard it was no less than the VOW of several hundred white men to exterminate the whole negro populationI of Springfield and to visit upon negro women and negro girls the same nspqisu brutality that Mrs. Mabel HafaHtsAae suffered at the hands of George Richard son. burly negro.
 It was to be carnival Of mufaer ana rapine and the darkness tonight was 10 cover and muffle the sights and sounds of the whole dreadful slaughter.
 Second Lynching.
 In spite of the fact that Springfield is filled with troops, the second lynch1ng or a negro within IS hours has taken place and a second attempt on the part Of a negro mob to kill a white man has sue ceeded.
 Details of the second crime are still lacking It occurred at White City, two miles east of Spring field. The re- port received states that while four white men were riding in wagon they were attacked by a mob of armed ne- groes. One of the white men was shot to death and the other three escaped with serious injuries. Both or the ne- groes lynched were old men. Scott Bur ton, a barber, was beaten and shot in his own yard at o'clock this morning. Then his body was strung to tree close to a blazing saloon
 The second lynching occurred at S:3O o'clock this evening at Edwards and Spring streets within two blocks Of the state capitol and directly across the street from the state arsenal. The vic- tim was William Dunnigan. He was set upon and beaten by mob, which acted with utter disregard of the sol diers. Then he was strung up to tree, but was cut down 10 minutes later by soldiers, and is now in dying condi- tion in St. Johns hospital.
 Close To Soldiers.
 This atrocious crime occurred direct ly across the street from the state arsenal, which was filled with militia men at the time. The soldiers made no attempt to arrest the lynchers, but con tented themselves with dispensing the mob after the crime had been commit ted.
 They divided it into two sections, heading them in opposite directions. These two units remained intact how ever, and proceeded to carry out the spirit of the night which appears to be to exterminate the negro population of Springfield.
 As the night wears on it seems that the military and police are losing their boasted grip on the situation. Twenty separate mobs are now working in va rious sections of the city
 The lynching of Dunnigan was the first overt act in execution of the plot to wipe the entire population out of Springfield, and it was the boldest crime yet committed The successful nf hal ba military and the police into disorder. The mob that killed Dunnigan was permitted to start out on it's murder ous errand and from the very shadow of military headquarters it paraded through the main streets of the city, shouting: "On to the capitol! Let's get the armory!" and We're after the nig- gers!" and no hindrance was offered by the numerous sentries who stood guard at every street crossing Five minutes after the mob had passed down Monroe street toward the capitol a woman, who lived near the capitol. telephoned that she heard the shouting of the mob and then had heard pistol shots. Still few minutes later word reached military headquarters that Dunnigan had been strung up Disregard of Military. The mob acted with utter disregard of the soldiers who were within few hundred feet of the crime. At one time they even stopped witnii earshot of the state arsenal and list ened to an address by man who urged that they move on the arsenal an6 I "see If the militiamen would use those N toy pistols"
 The mob vetoed the speaker ant erhouted, Let's kill a nigger!'
 1 Than fhav RWOoped down to whe .t eior old Dunnigan had been left tt
 Nit for himself by other negroes wht
 te younger and stronger and couic