The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-02-25
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were shot and the other persons IN.
jured.
Fourth and l. streets and attacked a
confectionery store run by Demos Bros.
The big plate glass windows were
quickly smashed, the. doors kicked in
and the stock and show cases destroy
I'd. Mrs. Mary Demos and her aged
father were In the store n both mar
rowly escaped death at the hands Of
the mob. t ns
The three attacks were made almost
simultaneously and the destruction was
completed before Chief Briggs could
get his scattered force, which Is not
great at any time, together and stop
the depredations. Meantime, Sheriff
Bradley was notified and collected all
the deputies possible and rushed them
to South omaha to aid the police. II
took some time to get this force organ
lied, and during the interval Greeks
were attacked on every hand. The
members of the mob assaulted many
Italians and Roumanians who were
mistaken for Greeks. The lawlessnesh
lasted sfor three our before a sem
blance of quiet could be restored.
The police gained control about 6
o'clock, but were unable to dispense
the crowd which thronged the streets
In the vicinity OF where the trouble
occurred. Every home and business
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officers, who found IL well nigh imposst-
BILE to keep back the crowds. At 6
o'clock Chief Briggs asked the Omaha
city authorities to send all the availa-
BILE police officers to South Omaha, as
more trouble was anticipated during
the night. After considering The legal
and other phases of the case 1t was
decided not to comply with the request
for Omaha policemen. Sherif Bradley
will swear In q large number of extra
deputies, who Will cooperate with the
South Omaha police in preventing fur
ther disturbance. .tA. o..
Murderer Is Sought.
An Unsuccessful attempt was made
Friday night to lynch the Greek who
killed Patrolman Lowery, and this was
followed bv a cal for a mass meeting
for yesterday afternoon to take some
action in regard to the Greeks. Nearly
1000 people attended the mass meet
ing, which was addressed by State
Representatives Jerry Howard n J.
p. Krause, Frank Dolzial. a prominent
Bohemian, and Attorney Fl. G. Murphy.
The tone of these speakers was gener-
ally hostile to the Greeks and Attorney
Murphy, who was the last speaker, laid
especial stress on what he termed the
undesirability of this class OF foreign
erS,
1.-The blood of an American is on the
hands of these Creeks" he shouted, in
closing his speech, and some method
hould be adopted to aYenge his
death and rid the city of this class of
persons. $780, ~,
The meeting was then dismissed and
half of the audience rushed to the
Greek quarter, where . the destruction
began. The crowd gave little heed to
location, n OF the damaged houses,
q two-Story residence, being less than
100 feet from the station. Once start
ed on its errand of vengeance the
crowd soon became a great unruly mob
against which the small force Of OFF,
GERS at hand was as nothing.
F~irebrands Busy.
The rioters Joined forces about Z
o'clock and started on another raid up
@ street. The first point of attack was
at Thirtieth and @, where they
smashed in the plate glass front Of a
Greek grocery store. The proprietor,
Dionysius Catapodis, and his family
were in the rear of the store, and as
the husband came out he received q
shot In the leg. A squad Of officers
Preached h place in a few minutes
and succeeded in getting the wounded
man to the police station in an auto
mobile by stealth. Three officers We're,
left to guard h family and a mo-
mept later the fire department was
called out to Thirty second and Q
streets, where the mob had set fire to
a Greek grocery and residence. The
rioters peat two of the Greeks into I'M
consciousness and started down town
with the third, beating him as they
went. The police succeeded in get
ting the man away from the crowd
and took all three of the injured men
to the station.
At 8 o'clock the fire department was
called to Twenty-eighth and r streets,
w1r e a large two-story double frame
building was in flames. About 80
Greeks had been quartered in the
place. but all are believed to have es-
capped. The building was entirely de-
/, stroyed, however. This structure had
formed a point of attack earlier in the
evening, during which the besieged
Greeks had defended themselves with
! firearms, with which they apparently
were all equipped. They fred a fusil-
lade out of the windows, n shot hit
ting Charles Estroy1 in the head 1t
was this scrimmage which ~undoubted-
ly enraged the crowd into setting fire
to the building.
Young Blood in Mob.
BY this time the crowd had begun
to appease its wrath and began to par
! TALLY dispense. However, several hun
dred of them continued to surge up
and down Q street, apparently looking
for additional places which might fur
nish some excuse for lawlessness.
Chief OF Police Briggs urged the crowd
to dispense, and was received with
silent contempt. In an automobile with
several deputies he patroled the street1,
! rushing to each point of new trouble.
A noticeable feature OF the crowd was
that it was composed almost entirely
Of youngsters ranging from Is to 20
years of age.
Curiosity brought many apparently
in hearty sympathy with the maraud-
ers to the scene. This latter horde was
ready to applaud each act of lawless-
ness, but took no active part in h
violence themselves.
Late In the evening William Chan
der and Edward Porter were arrested
and sent to the station charged with
disturbing the peace. Chandler was
haranguing a crowd to violence and
Porter was leading a crowd of hood