The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-01-09
3 COMPANIES OF MILITIA
ART: NOW DOING DUTY
Saloons Are Looted and Whisky
Passed Around-Officers Are
Helpless Against Hundreds
Taking Part in Depredations.
Armed Citizens Finally Re-
pulse Rioters at Midnight.
pulse Rioters at Midnigh'

YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, Jan. S.-Au-
thorities today expressed the belief
that for the present the rioting and
looting marking last night in East
Youngstown are ended. Three reCi
ments of Ohio national guard. under
Brigadier General John c. Speaks, pa
trolled the smoudering ruins of the
village
One life is known to have been lost
Fully ten blocks, including the entire
business section was burned. Several
thousand people were driven from
their homes. The loss is estimated at
81 900, 900.
Physicians estimated the number
of wounded at one hundred The ma
iorIty were shot Many wounds sraia
knives bore out the statement that
when the rioters We're driven from
Wilson avenue to Main street they
began fighting among themselves.
The trouble began late yesterday
when the day shift of the jYoiings-
town Sheet and Tube company quit
work Watchmen guarding a bridge
| leading from hill on which the vii
lage IS situated to the plant, fired
over the heads OF crowd OF two
hundred men and women after a shot
came from the crowd. The mob re
Piled. The guards fired again. Sev-
eral persons, including two women,
fell
The mob ran up the hillside and
reformed block away Almost i'm
mediately they fired building nous
ing an employment department com
pany. They then fired small ware
house, then turned to private prop
erty
They looted a saloon and set 1t
afire. A clothing store was next. The
stock was passed out to the crowd
Ebefore the place was fired. Liquor
was passed around freely, some dip
ping it up with their hands. Other sa-
looms were then looted. The fire was
then spreading rapidly
For an hour the mob was content
with small stores and saloons, but
ii then turned to the large stores. II
lost all semblance of leadership.
There were only ten police and they
were helpless. Sheriff Umstead was
blinded by red pepper thrown by
rioter. He and Mayor Cunningham
decided to ask for militia The local
fire department was appealed to but
II could do nothing AS long as the mob
! held the town. No attempt was made
to stop the fire or to save the prop
ferty.
The mob robbed and burned the
postoffice.
A dry goods store at Seventh street
and Wilson avenue shared a build
ing with a saloon. The mob attack
led the store first. man appeared
at the window and fired. killing an
unidentified rioter. Whisky barrels
had the heads broken DIN and men
and women gulped the raw liquor,
passing IT to those who could not
get close.
A small body OF citizens appealed
to the police and city officials to at
tack the rioters. At midnight forty
I armed men attacked the rioters.
They shot down dozen and sys-
tematically rounded up one. hundred.
Then the Youngstown fire department
put the fire out.
Two .yeeks ago the Republic Iron
and Steel companys laborers struck
{ for an increase in wages and nine
/ teen and one-half to twenty-five
! cents an hour. The Youngstown
/ Sheet and Tube company offered
TWENTY-FIVE and one.half cents i'm
mediately after the United States
Steel corporation announced ten
per cent increase for its laborers. The
e workers rejected this. The strike has
b been in psogress since.
0 Reports today are that the impoTta-
d ton OF strkebreakers precipitated the
itroubie.