The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-02-25
shot and the Other persons In

and the stock and show cases destroy
ed. Mrs. Mary Demos and her aged
father We're In the store and both mar
rowly escaped death at the hands OF
the mob.
The three attacks We're 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 al
the deputies possible and rushed them
to South Omaha to aid the police. 1t
took some time to get this force orgal.-
lied. and during the interval Greeks
We're attacked on every hand. The
members of the mo assaulted many
italians and Ro-u1nanians who We're
mistaken for Greeks. The iaWlessness
lasted for three hours before q SEM
blance of quiet could be restored.
h police gained control about 6
o'clock, but were unable to dispense
the crowd which thronged the streets
III the vicinity of where the trouble
occurred. Every home and business
place of the Greeks was surrounded by
officers, who found it We'll nigh %i,npossi-
BILE to keep back the crowds. At g
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 it was
decided not to comply with the request
for Omaha policemen. Sheriff Bradley
will swear in a large umbe of extra
deputies, who will co-operare with the
South Omaha police in preventing fur
ther disturbance.
Murderer Is Sought.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
Friday night to lynch the Greek who
killed Patrolman Lowery, and this was
| followed Inv q call for q mass mnntinp
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 and j..
p. Krause, Frank DolZial, q prominent
Bohemian, and Attorney n. c. 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.
THE blood Of a N American is on the
hands OF these Creeks he shouted, in
closing his speech, land some method
should be adopted to avenge his
death and rid the city of this class OF
persons.
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, one of the damaged houses,
a 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 moi
against which the small force of OIL
GERS at hand was as nothing.
Firebrands Busy.
The rioters Joined forces about Z
o'clock and started on another aid up
@ street. The first point of attack was
at Thirtieth and Q, 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
shot in the leg. A squad of officers
reached the place in a few minudes
and succeeded in getting the woun3ea
man to the police station in an auto
mobile by stealth, Three officers We're
left to guard the family and a mo-
ment later the fire department was
called out to Thirty-second and g
streets, where the mol had set fire to
a Greek grocery and residence. The
rioters beat two OF the Greeks into un-
consciousness II 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 9 O'clock the fire department was
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where q large two-story double frame
building was i'll flames. About 3e
Greeks had been quartered i'll the
place, out all are believed to have es-
capped. The building was entirely de
u stroyed, however. This structure had
formed a point of attack earlier in the
evening, during which the sesiege<
Greeks had defended themselves with
firearms, with which they apparently
We're all equipped. They fred q fusil-
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ting Charles Estroyl in the head. Ii
was this scrimmage which u~ndoubted-
ly enraged the crowd into setting fire
to the building.
Young Blood in Mob.
BY this time the crowd had begun
i to appease it's wrath and began to par
1 TALLY dispense. However, YER hun
bred of them continued to surge uI
and down @ street, apparently looking
for additional places which might fur
nish some excuse for lawlessness
t Chief of Police Briggs urged the GROVE
to- dispense. and was received with
silent contempt. In an automobile will
, several deputies he patroled the streets
1 rushing to ach point Of new trouble
2 . noticeable feature of the Grove was
that it was composed almost entirely
l of youngsters ranging from Is to e
: years of age.
/ Curiosity brought many apparently
l in hearty sympathy with the maraud-
I ers to the cene. This latter horde was
: ready to applaud each act of lawless-
ness, but took no active part in tht
5 violence themselves.
Late in the evening William Chan
: der and Edward Porter were arrested
: and sent to the station charged viii
disturbing the peace Chandler wa
: haranguing a crowd to violence ant
Porter was leading q crowd of hood
lums.
EXPRESS CAR BURNS
ON BURLINGTON RoAL
S Gretna. Neb., Feb. 24-An express
car on the west bound Burlington train
caught fire while the train was be
tween Chalco and Gretna and burned
! with practically all it's contents. TIT
/ two express messengers escaped b,
crawling around the side rail of TIL
burning car to the coach in the rear
4 The fire was discovered when the trail
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