South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-03

i leIL TOT the scene 10 utSptiSt NAt
crowd The officers were greeted
3 with a volley.
Detecuse Sergeant Coppedge was
killed and three policemen we're
wounded. one detective. Frank
Wodley, now is in the hospital in a
critical condition He was shot in
/ the stomach. The police chauffeur
also vas wounded. Jay Long, "a
white man. was wounded in an ear
| iier attack
Police relnforcements early this
morning dispersed the mob of Ne
sroes and shortly after . "a. nj.
Mayor Mouman asked Gov. Lowden
TO send national suardsmen here To
preserve order
Two Companies Arrive.
Two companies of the guard ar
rived about $50 and we're assigned
go duty in the Negro quarters. Up
20 that hour the streets were quiet
and it .eemed that the day woul3
pass without a renewal OF the riot
ing.
As the morning wore on crowds
began to congre gate in the streets.
and encouraged 10y the absence OF
troops from the downtown section.
agitators reran their work of in
flaming the mob The first trouble
occurred when a Negro appeared at
Broadway ard COllinsville av., one
of the busiest corners in the city.
and an important street car trans
fer point.
A white man struck a Negro in
the face and others in the crowd
Knocked him down and kicked him.
As he lay in the street a white man
coolly approached and fired at him
five times.
Two OF the shots took effect, one
in the arm and one in the leg. AS
the crowd, thinking the Negro was
dead, fell back, he jumped up and
ran This Negro said he had had
no part in previous race troubles.
A little later a white man, stand
ing in front of the limo hotel, fired
at a Negro, but missed him and
wounded a white man, Louis Haege,
So years old, in the groin.
Forced to Release Man.
The police arrested the man who
fired the shot. but the threatening
mob forced the officers to release
him. Later. a man whom the police
say was the one who shot Haege
was found harranguing a street
crowd
one Of the guard companies then
was ordered from the Negro quar-
ter TO the business section, but the
arrival Of the troops seemed to
arouse the increasing mObs TO fur.
Their aggression.
No accurate count Of the number
Of Negroes attacked was obtainable.
many. of course. getting away with
slight injuries.
Shot One i'm Car.
AT 1880 the rioting grew more Sc
rious. A car was stopped. the troll
ley pulled from the wire and a mob
OF white men invaded the coach
looking for Negroes. One was taken
off, cruelty beaten and kicked and
then shot. He died in an ambu
lance. While this disturbance was
raging another car appeared. AS
the car was halted, white women
and white girls boarded il, and, seiz-
ing shrieking Negro women, dragged
them into the streets, where they
were pounded and kicked.
A few minutes later, as a crowd
was attacking Negroes, one black
was shot in the head. The crowd
cheered as policemen put him in an
ambulance. National guardsmen
4 Ia
10 dispense the mob.
One Negro man, who was taken
from the car which women rioters
first invaded, was beaten on the
head with a heavy club. He died
in an ambulance.
Stray Bullets Kill One.
Some of the men in the mob be-
gan 10 fire William Keyser, hard
ware merchant. was killed by a stray
bullet.
one Negro was shot and killed as
he was waiting for train 10 take
him out of town.
About O'Clock a mob raided
pawnshop and carried away rifles
and revolvers.
Trouble Began i'm May.
The race troubles here began late
i'm May as a result of the heavy in
huN of Negro la borers. Labor lead
ers then expressed a fear that the
Negro labor was being imported 70
break anticipated strikes during the
summer
ON May IS crowd OF white men
demanded of the city council that
the Negro immigration be stopped
Mayor Mollman tried 10 calm the
crowd. telling them that an inves-
tigation would be ordered. After
the meeting adjourned white mobs
stopped street cars and dragged Ne
groes of and beat them.
The next day state troops ar
rived There was considerable dis
turbance the night Of May %, two
white men and three Negroes being
shot but within a day or two order
was restored and "a few days later
the troops were Withdrawn.
An investigation by the state
council OF defense was made and
they reported that labor agents had