The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-11-17
MAN, BOTH MURDERERS,
STRUNG UP ON THE MAIN
STREETS OF CITY.
MOB NUMBERED 10000
CLAMBERING FOR BLOOD
Negro Had Committed the Customary
Crime Against White Girl.-The
other Victim Was Wife MUIR
derer.-Ten Companies Of
Militia on Scene.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
Chicago, Nov. IL. - Governor
Deneen received a message from
the sheriff at Cairo, dated II p. m.
saying troops were necessary.
"They are storming the Jail
now and tearing down the shut
tiers. called for volunteers to
help stop the rioting, but not a
soul would help me. must have
troops"
Governor Deneen issude orders
by telegraph to the following
state troops:
Company D, at Carbonate, Cap
tain GaIbraith; Company G, at e.
fingham, Captain Austin; Com
pany M, at Champaign, Captain
Smith; Company A, at Casey,
Captain starner; Company B, at
Newton, Captain Mckinnon.
At midnight Governor Deneen
was appealed to second time by
Sheriff Davis after the mob had
succeeded in its furious vengeance
and dragged SaIzner, from the
Jail. Davis declared that condi-
tons were impossible for him to
cope with and that he feared
wholesale murder.
The governor Immediately is-
sued an order to five more troops
Of the Illinois National Guard to
rush to Cairo. Eleven companies
In all were ordered to Cairo at
midnight.
"a have directed General Wells
Of Decatur to take charge Of the
troops and he leaves Decatur in a
special train at once said Gov
erner Deneen at midnight. "sher-
If Davis reported to me that the
mob mad broken into the jail"
"This is an outrageous proceed
ing and disgrace to the state Of
Illinois," said Governor Deneen
as he hurriedIy gave orders by
telegraph and telephone to off.
GERS Of the military Of the state
and his ieutenants at Springfield
regarding the Cairo uprising.
"Nothing will be left undone to
preserve order to vindicate the
law"
Cairo, ILL.,, Nov. 12.-Cairo is tn tn,
hands of wild uncomfortable mob
Two men, Will James, a negro ant
Henry Salzner, white man wer,
lJnched during the night. State troops
are arriving and martial law is il
force.
Will James, the negro, suspected O
being the murderer of Miss Annie Pei
ley, was the first victim of the mob
James was strung up to the publ,
arch, the rope breaking and at leas
900 shots were poured into his body
He made partial confession and i'm
plicated the negro, Arthur Alexander
James was lynched in the mos
prominent square of the city and hunl
to the arch at Eighth and Commercial
streets.
Women present, were the first t.
pull the rope. When it broke tn
frenzy of the mob was uncontrollabl
and they fired volley after volley int,
his body, shooting him to pieces. TIL
mob then dragged the body over tn
streets for more than a mile to Twenty
sixth and Elm streets in an alley AM
burned it where the murder was com
mitted.
At least 10000 persons witnessed tn
lynching.
James was found with Sheriff Davi
between Karnak, ILL.,, and Belknap, b.
the Carlo crowd who went up from
here.
Taken from Officers.
The crowd overpowered the officer
and took the negro from them an
after a conference it was decided t.
bring the negro back to this city an
lynch him here.
Fully 1000 people went up to he'll
find the negro and when they arrive
in Cairo they were met by howlin
mob of at least 5000 more. The
marched direct to the arch, sweeping
everything before them. Many womel
were out to help do the work.
Sheriff Davis pleaded for the life Q
the negro, but without avail and whe1
Cairo was reached Davis was taken i
charge by part of the mob, Will
the rest rushed the negro rapidly t
the scene of action.
The mob after the negro grew S
large that it took in the entire cour
try from karnak to Venice, ILL.,. dis
lance of about 16 miles.
The mob was so large here that tn
resistance of the officers was fruitless
The negro, James, has been in Cair
off and on for several years. He cam
here from the South. He said befor
being lynched that the assault had bee
committed on the girl before bein
murdered and that Arthur Alexande
helped him with the crime.
Relatives of the murdered girl heir