The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
Estimate $50 Killed in E. st.
Louis Raid on Negroes.
Fire Losses Aggregate More
Than Million and Half.
10000 OVERWHELM OFFICERS
Blacks Shot Down Fleeing
From Burning Homes.
Thi~+een Companies National
Guards Now in Control.
Use Axes, Guns, Clubs, Ropes in
Numbering Negroes.
500 MOB LEADERS IN JAIL
Grand Jury at Once Takes Up
Work of Prosecution.
White Women, Blood Spattered,
Participate in Violence.
Grand Jury at Once Takes Up
Work OF Prosecution.
White Women, Blood Spattered,
Participate in Violence.
WHITES RENEW ORGY TODAY
Mob Kills 3 Negroes This After
noon and Fires Shacks.
Flames Spreading-St. Louis,
Mo-, Sends Fire Fighters.

East st. Louis. ILL.,. July "a small
mob shot three negroes and set sew
eral negro houses on fire shortly af-
ternoon. Militiamen hurried to the
scene When they arrived the mob had
disappeared. The STREETS are quiet and
officials say the situation is under con-
troll. Estimates of number killed in
night OF rioting range from 100 to
$50.
Adjutant General Dickson this aft
ernoon telegraphed orders for Com
pany NJ, of Champaign, to come to
East St Louis. Adjutant General
Dickson and Colonel Tripp, assistant
adjutant general today met with 100
leading business men to discuss the
situation.
Samuel McGlynn, u lawyer, made a
speech in which he denounced the
conduct of the national guardsmen
last night. saying that if they had
obeyed orders and done their duty
there would have been no serious riot
ing. The guardsmen. he said, did not
try TO break UP the crowds and. in
fact fraternized with the rioters.
Adjutant General Dickson said that
if he learned of any case in which a
guardsman failed to do his duty he
would be court-martialed at once.
Colonel Trip said that up to 6
O'Clock last night he had only fifty
guardsmen with which to handle the
rioters.
Order Out More Troops.
Springfield, Ill, July 3.-Governor
Lowden this afternoon ordered Troop
d, of Springfield. and six companies
of the Second Illinois infantry at Chi
cage to proceed at once to East st.
Louis. With the twelve companies of
national guardsmen and two com
panies of federaliZed troops at East
St. Louis, in all twenty-one companies
will be on hand to cope with riot con-
ditions tonight.
East st. Louis, ILL.,, July 3.-Fires,
which were started today by rioters in
three negro quarters at noon, We're fan
ned by high wind and spread rapid
~ getting beyond control. a general
fire alarm has been sounded and all
fire fighting apparatus in the city has
hurried to the scene.
Troops and police have hurried to
the scene of the fires. where crowds
of rioters also are assembled. Five
or six negro sHacks are on fire and the
flames are spreading rapidly.
The fires are at Fourth and Tremely
streets, Fourth and Bond, and Fourth
and Market streets.
Two fire companies have arrived
from ST Louis. Mo, to help fight the
blazes which continue to spread,
Demand Martial Law.
East St Louis, Ill, July 3.-At 4
meeting of the chamber of commerce
here shortly before noon it was agreed
to telegraph Governor Lowden de-
handing martial law turnout the riot
district by noon In the event of q
refusal they will appeal to the presi-
dent in Washington, the business mer
agree.
sixteen Blocks Are in Ashes.
East St. Louis, ILL.,, July 3.-Tht
bodies of twenty-one negroes, one OF
them a 2-year- old girl, were in un'
dertaking establishments this morn
ing. Officials still estimate the dead
and diving at one hundred but the3
admit that their figures are based
merely on reports from different dis
tricts Workers have started the
eruesome task of searching for burn
ed bodies in the sixteen and one-hal
burned blocks, mostly negro tene
ments. The number of dead probabl!
never will he known as many bodie
were thrown in streams and manI
others burned.
Only "a Bodies z covered.
The number of dead could only b'
estimated at noon. Twenty -four bodies
Including those of three whites, wer'
at the morgues, and seventy-five per
sors were known to have received
treatment for more or less serious in
iuries at hospitals.
Il believe there are more than 10
negroes dead the Night Chief of Pc
lice Con Hickey said this morning
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