The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
Over Thirty Buildings Are Wrecked And Many Persons Are Injured In Fusilade of
 Bullets, Stones and Bricks.
Police Unable to Cope With the Situation and Deputy Shers Aid In Quieting Mob's violence.--Governor Tenders
 National Guard to Protect Foreigners.
lnd rid tn. city of th,. class of per-

and rid the city of this class of per- sons."
 The meeting dismissed. half of the audience rushed to the Greek quarter. where the destruction began. The crowd gave little heed to opposition, one of the damaged houses. a twostory residence. being less than 1oO feet from the police station.
 At 2sth and I Streets. the mob set fire to a double frame building occu- pied as a boarding house. Twenty five or thirty Greeks made 1t their home. So rapid was the action of the fire that the building was destroyed before the fire department could make any headway in fighting the flames. It Is believed that all of the occupants escaped.
 Deputies Rushed To Scene.
 Sheriff Bradley collected all the dep uties possible and rushed them to South Omaha to aid the police. It took some time to get the force organ ized and during the interval Greeks were attacked on every hand.
 At 6 o'clock. Chief Briggs asked the Omaha City authorities to send all the available police officers to South Oma- ha, as more serious trouble was anti legal and other phases of the case. 1t was decided not to comply with the re- quest for Omaha policemen.
 Sheriff Bradley proceeded to swear in q large number of extra deputies to CO., operate with the South Omaha police.
 The rioters joined forces about 5 o'clock and started on another raid.
 At Thirtieth and Q Streets they smashed in the plate glass front of a Greek grocery store and started for the proprietor. Dionisios Catapodis. who. with his family. were in the rear of the store. The husband coming out to meet them, received shot in the leg. Oficers reached the place in 6 few minutes and succeeded by stealth in getting the wounded man to the po- lice station in an automobile. Three ofiioers wefs left to guard the family. A moment later, the fire department was called to Thipty- second ana O Streets, where the mob had set fire to a Greek grocery store and residence. The rioters beat two of the Creeks into inconsistencies and started down town with the third. beating him as they went. The police succeeded in getting the man away from the crowd and took all three of the injured men to the station.
 At Thirty-second and Q Streets Nhe mob set fire to the house of another Greek. Three men were taken from the place. After being severely beaten. two of them were put on a passing street car. The other was taken away by a portion of the mob. who said they were going to put him on board an out going train. It Is not known. however. what was done with him. The fire de- partment easily extingushedi the blaze.
 Charles Estroyl, aged 30 a member of the mob. which was trying to break in a building at Twenty-eighth and Q Streets, received a dangerous gun shot wound in the forehead. He was taken to a hospital.
 A mob smashed the front of store at Thirtieth and Q Streets and one of the Greek employees of the place was badly injured. The police rescued him and sent him to a hospital in an auto mobile.
 The fire department was called to Twenty-eighth and R Streets. where a large two-story double frame building was in flames. About thirty Greeks had been qua-tered in the place. but all are believed to have escaped. The building was destroyed. This building had formed a point of attack earlier in