The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-22
SPRINGFIELD IS
IN GRIP OF MOB.
ONE DEAD AND MANY HURT IN
GREAT RACE WAR.
STATE TROOPS SUMMONED
People, Enraged by Removal Ct Brutal
Negro, Burn Houses and Wreck
stores-E. w. Chain
Injured.

Springfield, Ill.-Springfeld was
completely In the control of mob for
several hours Friday night, the police,
sheriff's force and troop d of the First
cavalry, and the members of Calling
gun section of the Illinois National
Guard being unable to do anything to
control the mob, which was rendered
furious by the removal from the city
of George Richardson, a negro who
was identified as the man who entered
a white woman's home and dragged
her from bed. into an clubhouse, and
then assaulted her. AS the result Of
the mobs actions one man Is dead,
another will probably die and several
others were injured, while Loper's
restaurant has been wrecked, the
shanties of number of negroes re-
siding in the bad lands burned, and
Gov. Deneen at the request of Sheriff
Werner, called a number OF companies
OF the Illinois National Guard to
Springfield to preserve order.
Among the injured was r. w.
Chain, candidate for president Of the
United States on the Prohibition party
ticket, who was struck in the head
with a brick.
The Dead and Injured.
Lewis Johnson, aged IA, was found
leading to the buffet of the Lopez res
taurant.
The injured include: Fred Ramsey
of the Calling gun section Of the I'LL
nois National Guard, struck on arm
by stone; Oscar Dahlkamp. policeman,
struck over eye by rock; James Scott,
white, shot by negroes in hip near
left lung, may die; Albert Bierline,
employed at post office, shot in hip
by stray bullet; Philip Pa Pollock of
Chicago, badly lacerated while aiding
Mayor Reece in escaping from mob at
Loper's; John A. Smell of Sherman,
shot in shoulder by negro; Edward
Bingham, struck in head with brick;
Rev. T. d. Logan, struck in head with
brick, and Robert Sturgis, waiter at
Loper's restaurant, artery of left fore
arm cut by shot.
Cause Of the Rioting.
Richardson and Joe James, another
negro who was in jail awaiting trial
on the charge of numbering Clergy
KallarS, who had chased him from his
house which he had entered with the
evident intention of attacking Kali
lard's daughter, escaped by means Of
the automobile of Harry T. Lopez,
commissary and major of the Second
brigade of the Illinois National Guard,
who had been requisitioned by Sheriff
Werner to take the men out Of town.
The men were spirited out of the jail
by a back door and tile rear alley,
while the mob's attention was en-
gagged by run of the fire department,
and were taken to the Sangamon
deputies they were placed on board
Chicago & Alton train and taken to
Bloomington and lodged in jail there.
Abuse Negroes, Wreck Restaurant.
The mob, when they learned that
the negroes really had escaped, deter
mined to wreak their vengeance on
negroes In general, and number OF
negroes we're maltTeated. An attack
was made on the Jail, which was
guarded by the deputy sheriffs, police
and troop 3D." First cavalry, Illinois
National Guard. A mob of about a
thousand persons assembled in, front
of Loper's restaurant and wrecked 1t.
Lopez and one of his walters. Roland
Sturfis, fired revolvers over the heads
of the crowd from within the restau-
rant in the effort to intimidate the
mob, without effect. They finally re-
tired to the basement. Tho mob
robbed the cash drawer In the buffet
of its contents, $3.50. They demolished
everything around the place. How the
boy, Lewis Johnson, came TO his death
Is not known. One doctor says he
was shot in the neck and another
that he was killed by a broken neck.
Shortly after IL o'clock the mayor
attempted to address the mob. The
shout was raised: Throw him into
the fret"
The mayor was seized and roughly
He was rescued by frie ends,
who came to his assistance through
shower of bricks and other missiles,
and hustled him into a nearby cigar
store.
Prisoners Taken to Peoria.
Bloomington, Ill.-Richardson and
James, the Springfield negroes
brought here to avoid mob late Fri
lay night, we're hurriedly placed
aboard train and taken to Peoria to
prevent possible capture by crowd
of rioters which. 1t was feared. might
come to Bloomington after the ne
groes.