Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-27
R|OT|NG IN
ROCK ISLAND
Three Killed and Nine
Wounded When Mob
Rushes Police Station
MORE TROUBLE IS EXPECTED
Governor Deneen Calls Out
Regiment of National Guards
to Preserve Order.

Regiment of National Guards
to Preserve Order.
(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Springfield, H., March 27.-Govern-
or Deneen today ordered the entire
sixth regiment of the Illinois National
Guard to proceed to Rock Island TO as
sist in preserving order there. Com
panies B of Geneseo and E. of Sterling
of the Sixth regiment arrived at Rock
Island, today and relieved Company A
of Rock Island, which with Company
X. of Moline, was ordered out for riot
duty early today.
Adjutant General Dickson reported
from Rock Island that the citizens are
in a state of frenzy and that the sher-
iff expects trouble tonight He says a
great many strangers are in Rock ISL
and and are anxious to renew the riot.
Three Killed in Riot.
Rock Island. H. March 27.-Des-
pltt Auttl III al Iu1ll - vi ttlI IilN
this morning, sheriff. police and mill
tia prepared to resist a resumption to-
night of the rioting which resulted in
three deaths and the Wounding of nine
persons last night. Sheriff o. L. Brun-
er said:
Although everything looks peaceful
now, there IS an urder-current OF
vicious feeling against the police and
| expect to see an attack on the mill
tia BY the mob tonight. My deputies
report that a number Of desperate
characters in Davenport, Moline and
Rock Island are today carrying around
the word that they will run the militia
into the Mississippi river tonight. This
feeling, in my opinion, will get strong
er as the day goes on
5000 in Mob.
Last nights rioting continued prac-
tically unchecked for three hours. Th9
police said there were more than
5000 persons in the mob which surg
ed through the downtown streets pull
ing car trolleys from the wires, over
turning wagons and in other ways
seeking to block public thoroughfares
After the attack on the police station
had been repulsed by the yolley from
! the weapons Of the officers the author
! tiles found a dozen dead or wounded
men in the street. Two of the three
Z IL a ;l.n4iEnI p1u IA
day as ]. C. Kelly, a blacksmith o
| Silvia, village a few miles up thf
river, and L. H. Orman. shoe mer
chant of this city. Kelly is said tt
have been one of the many who came
to Rock Island from neighboring com
munties, bent on mischief.
| 1t is stated even that the riOrOus con
ditions here may be repeated in Moline
where local politics reflect much thu
same status as caused the outbreaks
against Mayor H. NJ. Schriver, of Rocl
Island There is TO be politica
meeting in Moline tonight and the out
come is awaited with some apprehen
sion.
Result Of Law Enforcement.
Rock Island, March 27-Mayor Shri
yer in statement today said: 9TH.
police were particularly careful TO dt
nothing that would start trouble. The.
stood bravely through all kinds o
taunts and ridicule on the street, sub
mitted themselves to assaults will
brickbats and rocks and finally. whel
three of them were driven to the riV
er bank, without resistance on thei
part, they found refuge in the polio
station.
"The police did not open fire unit
they found they were trapped ant
then they fired several volleys owe
the heads of the crowd after Commits
sioner Hart had gone out in front o
the station and urged the mob in kind
~ terms to disperse. He was ne
with jeers and tunts and a fusilade o
brickbats.
The shots were fired into tn
crowd only after most of the window
III the city hall and station had bee
broken and several policemen insd
had been hit with bricks and stone:
The whole trouble from its inceptio
may be traced to the fact that the
enforced the law against disorderl
saloons and chop suey joints. That
what brought forth the attack upo
. me by the Looney paper and it is g
the bottom of the entire disturbance