The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-16


= A small crowd of rouShs this morn :
ing broke every window and the front y
= coor of the cottage of Clarence Har- y
Ney. negro. detachment of the
f1rst Illinois was sent to the scene
= at Seventh and Bergen streets and \
brought Harvey, his wife and mother y
10 the county Jail. The mob had dis =
= persed before the arrival of the SOL y
! diers. Otherwise the situation was
\ quiet General Young, Governor y
\ = Deneen and Adjutant General Scott \
had retired for the night, leaving =
y Colonel Sanborn in charge. \
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Springfield. ILL.,, Aug. 15.-With one
more victim added tonight to the roll
of fatally injured in the race riots which
began here last night, Springfield spent
the night in anxiety. Apprehension Of
more serious trouble was modified. but
not stilled. by the presence of $500 ma
tional guardsmen from various parts OF
the state. under the command of Major
General Young
Aged Negro Latest Victim.
Tcnisht's victim of race prejudice was
an aged negro. William Donigan. Doni-
gan was a cobbler and respected as a
simple and inoffensive citizen. His shop
house. Tonight. in the absence of a
patrol. mob set fire TO the shop and
the venerable negro was compelled by
the smoke TO run into the street. His
appearance was greeted by a shower of
stones and bricks. and as he staggered
under the fusillade he was seized and
his throat cut. A rope was then run
through the wound and the victim
bound to tree. There he was found
later, unconscious and all but dead.
No Hope of Recovery.
DR. futile, who dressed the wound.
reported that death was a matter OF
hours. a witness To the firing of the
shop turned in an alarm, but when the
firemen appeared the blaze was out. 1t
rad not gained enough Roadway and
had been extinguished by some of the
cooler headed members of the mob.
Two companies of infantry and a
troop of cavalry were rushed TO the
scene. and at their appearance the
crowd ran heller SHELTER down the>street
and dispersed in all directions when
they reached the capitol grounds. Six
arrests were made.
ARRAY in Front of Armory.
Coincident with the attack on Doni-
gan a less serious disturbance occurred
An front of the new state armory. A
4crowd gathered and threatened to
storm the place, wherein there were
sheltered a number of negroes. Two
companies of the Fourth infantry and
troop b of the cavalry came on the
scene quickly and charged the crowd
with bayonets leveled. AS in the pre-
vious incident. the mob fed precipitate
ly at the sight of cold steel and the bus
iness-like appearance of the men in uni
form.
r.. .l,;.. ti,,o on aIap,,,e u-ara fra
ouent. They seemed TO come from
everywhere. Camp Lincoln. where a
large number of the fugitive race were
sheltered, reported the appearance of a
mob and asked for more soldiers
Reinforcements Asked.
General Young. after consulting with
fiovernor Deneen and Adjutant General
(Tcott, ordered the camp abandoned.
with two additional companies as
guards. the negroes were brought to the
new arsenal. Spaulding. a suburb seven
miles distant, where there are many
colored miners, telephoned the governor
that the blacks were threatening retail
atory measures. General Young prompt
Iy dispatched a company to the pJIce.
These were samples of the disturbing
messages constantly reaching the COM
manding officer at his headquarters at
the county Jail. His force, which had
at first seemed more than adequate,
melted so fast in the process of detail
ing guards that it became apparent that
further reinforcements were advisable.
Second Regiment Called Out.
Governor Deneen responded by call
ing out the Second regiment of Chicago,
and ordering the Fighting Seventh" of
that city to hold itself in readiness for
call 10 arms. A plan probably unique in
similar situations was adopted by Gen.
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