The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-03
FRISCO BRIDGE
North OF ADA IS
PARTLY WRECKED
SaSakWa Stores TO Be Stormod
for Arms.
GOVERNOR ASKED FOR AID
Working Class Union and !.
| W, W, Believed Involved.

Appeals for assistance In qvsIlisg
the mob Of alleged draft rssistess
formed In Seminole county ysstes.
day were received By oovsrnee
Williams this afternoon from eova.
~ officials At Wswoka. 0ovsraeg
Williams Immediately esiisA AZ.
Gen. ANGEL Earp Into ooAtsssiSs
and the two we're elosstsd at avs
o'clock with . personal representa-.
tive Of the governor sent 10 osal.
mole county yesterday aftsrAoea v
investigate.
This representative. Il was sail
At the governors office, rseem.
msnds the formation of 4 civilian
company Of about fifty msn vto
are iAmiuar witA Ne rough, hillE
ly-timbsssd sesties u vhiSA
thA mob y lDegstiAo. s3be lnnoaaeL
hs says, should b kSSvily AIRED
and sivsa Instructions to shoot 70
kill.
Adjutant General Earp has isdi.
Gated that In case the situation ~.
comes serious no may b compelled
to order out troops not already niue.
tered into federal service, for mob
duty.
Early this afternoon shsriffs as0
county attornsys Of 0smiaolo,
Hughes and Pontotoe eounties, ~
conferences over the tslsphoas ~
II vas agreed that all three eeuaNss
organise posses At once aAd Dseesee
10 the vicinity Of 6asaska, there y
hold q final conference. The HuSAee
county posse left HoldsAvills 9 .
special train shortly afternoon.
ADA, Okla. Aug 3.--(Speeisl.) y
Northern pontstoc and southern SssDl
mole counties are terroriled today hy
mob OF more than one hundred mel
said to he members Of the Woskin
Cla. union and Industrial Worksrs
the World who, officers believe. are n
sponsible for the dynamiting oi Ii
Frisco bridge over the South Canada
river at Francis. for the cutting Of tele
phone and telegraph wires and for Ii
murderous attack on a sheriff's poss
near Wewoka yesterday afternoon.
Mob Marching on Sasakva.
Organized resistance TO the draft
supposed to be the purpose OF the n,o(
The mob is reported to be marching ~
toward Sasakwa on the Frisco rallso6
in southern Seminole county. where
will storm the hardware stores Id {
auemp, to secure weapons and smmu
ton sufficient to hold United StU11
and state officers or even soldlWe 4
bay II an attempt 10 made 10 ea),uI
them. fiTiy
The trouble with the mob stared -
terday afternoon when Sheriff y
Grail Of Seminole county And j.1t
Cross, 4 deputy sheriff. were shot
from ambush twelve miies south
Wewoka. Thirty-five shots were flr
by the ASSISTANTS OF the officers and n
Of the bullets took effect In the hel
and neck Of Deputy Gross who, howsv,
will recover. The officers were unah
to return the fire effectively and we
forced to withdraw.
franeis Wires Are Cut.
Shortly after this battle, wires in q
directions from Frhncis were GU, a.
the city was left without communicate
After night had fallena ~ portion Of Il
mob advanced on the Frisco brids
burned number of the timber, an
then exploded a quantity OF dynamit
Traffic on the Frisco has been held u
for more than ten hours as a result
but railroad officials here say that
will be repaired in time for use thi
afternoon.
Sheriff X +. Duncan OF Pontcfo
county is forming a posse ana ~,
started in the direction OF the nor!l
Canadian river to head off the moo "
case |, crosses the stream. IL IS posi-
ble that he may cooperate win semi
mole county posses now proeeedlns 70
ward Sasakwa to protect that eiV y
case the mob reaches Il.
Members Of Union Arrsstee.
Five alleged member, Of the Woeksl
Class Union who arc believed to ~
knowledge Of the mobs plans wefe
rested Wednesday and placed n
Holdenville, Hughes eountys
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