The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
Mob Terrorizes Negroes
 of Town. GOVERNOR DENEEN ORDERS
 OUT STATE MILITIA Troops Seem Powerless to Control
 Situation. Black DraEn Waite Woman From Bee And AeeompIishes Psrpo.e--Nesro is Arrested And Spirited From Town By sheriff Ana Dspu-

Springfield. Ills.. Aug. i5.--sprine- Held is in the hands of a mob of erl- ragged citizens. who began last night to wreak vengeance on negro residents for an assault committed yesfardav by George Richardson, a negro. on Mrs Aaliarn, a white woman. Al i o'clock this morning the whole east end of the town burst into flames, the torch having been applied to several negro houses by some Of the mora
 Two mon are already dead. ana probably two score others are injured. mostly negroes. The rabble is sweep ing through the streets attacking every negro they meet. All the local militia are on duty. and half q dozen companies from other cities are rush ing here on special trains. Still other companies are ordered to hold them selves In readiness. The fire depart ment is st present helpless to com bat the flames in the negro quarters on account of the threatening attitude of the mob towards tho frenisn.
 The dead:
 c. J. Scott.
 Louis Johnson.
 Richardson and another negro want ed for murder were atealthfly taken From Springfield jail last night and A4eHN4 bO 9AO0AAA&AI t4afs HA&AGG AlEEE were later taken to Peoria. It ia thought that with the arrival of fhe out-of town troops. the streets wili be cleared and order restored.
 p. W. Chafin. candidate for President of the United States on the Prohibition ticket was struck in the head by a brick thrown by one of the mob.
 Troops Guard ngn.
 Most of the members of troop B.. of are on guard around the jail. whence George Richardson. the negro who assailed Mrs HalIarn at her home today was removed early in the evening to Bloomington. The Kioters who had gathered in front Of the jail following the lncarceration of Richard aons were euraked by the ruse prac- ticed by t2se sheriff in removing the negro from the jail. A company of firenau was sent down the street in front of the jail in spectacular run. attracting Do aftenfioa of tlaa SsoH 1 while Rieh2rdsnn and anothAf charged with murder, were 8toAitbiix mon River. and placed on train bound for Bloomington.
 Finding that the negroes were gone. the mob amused itself for a time by footing negro resorts in East Washing ton Street. The amusement Of the riots was tragedy for the negroes, many of whom were roughly handled and beaten with pieces of their own furniture. A white man and his son. whose names were not ascertatnea. were shot and injured. supposedly by negroes. This encounter further en- ragged the members of the mob. and they began a general search for negroes.
 The situation became SO serious that Governor Denean sent hurried orders for extra troops. The local militia had been called out earlier in the evening to prevent trouble that was feared at that time.
 MIIitia PowsrIess.
 The Springfield militia. after the shooting of the two white men tonight. seemed poweriess to control the rioters. and when the automobile which had taken the two prisoners from tho jail to the train across the river returned to Springfield. driven by it's owner. Major Harry T. Loper, commissary of the second brigade. I. N. C.. a large number of the rioters assembled around the machine in front of Loper's restau. rant.
 Despite a guard of police and mem bers of the 9th infantry with a getIlng gun. the crowd wrecked the restaurant, tS6ItH8 tSNEAy hO tN4BD@A Ak&&t4Ha Loper's automobile and set 1t afire. The fire departmant vas summoned to extinguish the burning automobile. and another struggle en- sued when the nilitiamen tried to drive back the rabble to allow the fireTnen to play hose on the fire. Three mem bers of the Gatling gun squad were inc jured during the. melee. and the mob took several guns from the soldiers. These captured guns were used to finish wrecl<ing the restaurant. When the mob reached the bottom of the stairway leading to the buffet of the restaurant they found the dead body of Louis Johnson, 14 years of age. 4 doo- tor who examined the body hastily. said the boy had been shot h the neck. where there was a wound. but another doctor who came up later said that the boys death was due to a broken neck
 story of Assault.
 Springfield, III ... Aug. l4---Mrs Earl HalIam. wife of a conductor on the Springfield Consolidated Railway Com pany, was dragged from her bed at last night by a negro. who took her into a garden in the rear of the house and assaulted her. Mrs. HalIam was badly bruised about the neck and body. Her husband does not get home until o'clock in the morn ing.
 Five negroes have been arrested on suspicion.
 George Richardson. a negro, arrested at noon and taken to the sheriff's office tn the court house, was identified by Mrs. HalIam as the man who had as- saulted her. So menacing was the crowd that Richardson was taken to the county jail under a heavy guard.
 Sheriff Werner, late today, secretly took Richardson and Joseph James. tho latter charged with the murder of Clergy A. Ballard, from the jail through a rear door, hustled them into m automobile. drove rapidly across the sangamon river. and placed the ne- groes on a Chicago and Alton train in charge of two deputies.
 The destination is kept secret. The attention of a crowd that had sur- rounded the front of the jail was di-