The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-01-12
OHIO Town LOOTED.
MOB BURNS BUSINESS BLOCKS
AND TAKE GOODS AWAY
Men CRAZED With BOOZE
Mob Loots Saloons First and Whjs-
key Flows Like Water-Drunk-
Crazed Mad Men Fire Stores. ana
Loot Stocks-TroopS SeCt by Gov
ernor and Order is Restored.

Loot SCOCkS-lrOOpS SeEC DS OoS'
ernor and Order is Restored.
Preparations are being made fol
reopening the plants Of the Youngs.
town Sheet and Tube Company, at
East Youngstown and Struthers
Ohio, the two days of tranquility
after the rioting Friday night, which
cost two lives and million dollar
property damage, having led Off
cials to believe that the situation
was well under control.
State troops continued on duty
Sunday in the strike district. 1t was
estimated that twenty-five thousand
sightseers from nearby points IN
Ohio and Pennsylvania thronged the
run lined streets of East Youngs-
town. Special trains brought many
persons.
The roundup Of persons alleged
to have participated in the looting OF
st res Friday night continues. Near
ly wo hundred and fifty foreigners
weS arresyted while wagon loads OF
articles II every description found in
their homes were carried to the
Youngstown police station. These
articles, the police allege, were
stolen from stores attacked by the
mob.
All available room in the county
Jail in Youngstown has been filed
with prisoners and plans are being
made to place others in large room
in the Court House under guard.
A crowd of men and women gath
cred at the east Youngstown end Of
the bridge at the company's plant
Friday morning and jeered the work
men as they crossed. Suddenly
shot was fired and guards. taking
this as q signal, fred over the heads
Of the crowd. The mob replied, and
another voIley came. A number OF
persons, including two women, fell TO
the street and the mob broke and
ran up the hillside.
A block away they reformed and
almost Immediately set fire, to the
building occupied by the tube COM
pany's employment bureau. A little
later they fred a small warehouse.
and then turned their atteae.c1 &c
private property.
A saloon stood on the corner and
8 rush was made for the door In
minute shouting crowd filed the
little room and helped themselves to
what they saw. When the lootng
was complete the match was applied.
A clothing store nearby was next
entered and the stock passed out to
the constantly growing crowd IN the
street by those inside. Clerks fled
for their lives and when the looting
was finished, the place was fred.
BY this time the mob was in
frenzy. Liquor w&s<passed around
as freely as water, and those who
had Ro cups dipped it up in the
hollows of their hands, for within
half an hour other saloons had
been looted and the fire was
spreading rapidly.
The main street parallels the rail-
road tracks at the foot OF the hill
and streets led out of it up the hill
to the residence district. For fully
an hour. or moreGfhe mob was con-
tent with the small shops and sa-
looms on the side sheets but then 1t
turned its attention more preten-
tious stores.
The mob had lost all semblance of
leadership and splitting up into bands
the hooters went madly about the
work of destruction. Saloon after
saloon was broken into, looted and
fred, flames spreading to the other
business blocks on the street. Famed
by a strong wind the fire tore It's
way up the hill and many residences,
some occupied b ythe rioters, were
burnedZ.
Mayor Cunningham and his ten
policemen realized the situation was
beyond them ard gathered at the
police station. Sheriff Umstead had
been blineded temporarily by a red
pepper thrown in his eyes by riot
er.. Later the mayor and sheriff con-
ferred and call was sent for state
troops.
Meantime the rioting had been in
progress for several hours, and II
was seen that the business section
could not be saved. Every minute
the crowd seemed to grow until there
were hundreds of drink-crazed mer
and women roaming the streets. The
fire department had been called out
at the first alarm but the hose was
quickly cut to pieces and helpless
thew called on the Youngstown ire
department.
Chief Joseph Wallace had men and
equipment ready to send from the
CITY, but found = was useless to risk
lives and property as long as the
mob had the town. Scenes OF the
widest disorder were everywhere
enacted, and the fires mounted high
er and higher until toward ten
O'Clock Wilson avenue, the entire
length of the village was IN flames
No attempt was being made to eN-
tineuish the flames or save the thou
sands of dollars in property DeaaS
carried away or destroyed.
Early in the evening the mob hac
attacked the post office. 1t was
small building and the dozen or more
men who entered it made short Worh
Of it. The strong box was robbed
and the torch put to the building.
One of the handsomest buildings
in the village was the banking house
of G. V. Hamory. The mob paid no
attention to it until after ten o'clock
Then it was recalled that saloon
had stood in that section and there
was a. rush to the place The saloon
was looted and fred and the flames
soon spread to the bank, destroying
it.
A dry goods store near Seventh
street and Wilson avenue Shared a
building with a saloon. The party
which selected it for their prey maze
the mistake of attacking the ory
goods store first. AS they approach
ed the door man appeared at win
dow in the living quarters above the
store and fred one shot from MS re-
volver. ;5
A rioter. who had not been loen-
titled, fell dead in the street anu the
others fled. They withdrew to the
other side of Wilson avenue and
after a conference tossed a brick
through one of the plate glass win,
dows. No shot came from above ana
enconra eed thev stormed the place.