Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-20
.FRENz|ED MOB
j. TERROR!zES CITY
Populace Bent on Wreaking
Vengeance on Negroes Be-
cause Of an Outrage.
GOVERNOR ORDERS TRo0psOUT
Fooled Lynchers at Springfield, ILL.,, De-
stroy Property and Overrun
Town-One Killed.
GOVERNOR ORDERS TROOPS OUT

Springfield, ILL.,, Aug. 16.-Spring-
field is in the hands of a mob of en-
ragged citizens, who began last night
to wreak vengeance on negro resi-
dents for an assault committed Thurs
day by George Richardson negro, of
Mrs. Hallam, a white woman. At 1
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 more
desperate rioters. Two men are all
ready dead and probably two score
others are injured, mostly negroes.
The rabble is sweeping through the
streets, attacking very negro met.
Six Companies Called Out.
All the local militia are on duty
and half a dozen companies from
other cities are rushing here on spe-
cial trains. Still other companies are,
ordered to hold themselves in reserve.
The fire department is at present
helpless to combat the flames in the.
negro quarter on account Of the
threatening attitude of the mob to-
ward the fremen.
1t is though that with the arrival
of the outof-town troops the streets
will be cleared and order will be re.
stored.
Negroes Are Attacked.
Negroes in various parts of town,
have been attacked by the mob, and
in two instances the negroes have
turned with considerable effect on
their assailants.
Most OF the members of Troop B Of
Taylorville are on guard around the
Jail, whence George Richardson, the
negro who assailed Mrs. Hallam at
her home yesterday, was removed
early in the evening to Bloomington
had gathered in front of the Jail. fol-
lowing. the Incarceration of Richard
son. were enraged by the ruse prac-
ticed by the sheriff in removing Rich.
ardson from the Jail.
A Clever Ruse Worked.
A company of fremen was sent
down the street in front of the Jail in
E spectacular run, attracting the atten-
, ton of the crowd while Richardson
and another negro charged with muir
der, were stealthily taken from the
Jail across the Sangamon river and
placed in train for Bloomington.
Finding that the negroes were gone,
the mob amused itself for time by
looting negro resorts in East Wash
Ington street. A white man and his.
son, whose names were not .ascer-
tanned by the police, were shot and in
iured, supposedly by negroes. This
encounter further enraged the mem
bers of the mob and they began a
general search for negroes wherever
they could be found.
Youth Is Killed.
When the automobile which had
taken the two prisoners from the Jail
returned to Springfield, driven by it's.
owner, Maj. Harry T. Lopez, commits
Bary of the Second brigade, Illinois
national guard large number of the.
rioters assembled around the machine
in front CT Loper's restaurant
Despite guard of police and mem
bers of the Fifth infantry with Cat
ling gun, the crowd wrecked the res
taarant, tearing everything to pieces
inside and dem olishing Loper's auto
mobile.
Louis Johnson, a boy about seven
teen years old, is dead as the result
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