Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-06
KILL MANY BLACKS
At EAST ST. LOUIS;
TORCH IS APPLIED
Whites Shoot Negroes as They
Flee Burning Homes.
MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED
Additional Companies of State Troops
Called out-Three Hundred White
Men Arrested-Six Blacks
Are Hanged.

fifteen negroes were shot and killed by
Iuobs here as they fled from their burn
ing homes, which had been set on fire
by white mobs. Six negroes were
hanged. Five other negroes had been
slain earlier in the day. Martial law
was proclaimed and 800 white men
were arrested.
Springfield, ILL.,, July 3.-Adjt. Gen.
Frank 4. Dickson lief. for East ST.
Louis, where he will take charge of the
riot situation. He Is being followed
by six additional companies of guards
men, making totol of IL units or
dereG to that city for riot duty. Olney,
Casey, Sullivan, Pontiac and kankakee
companies are cntraining.
East st, Louis, ILL.,, July 3.-The ne
gro section g this city is afire, more
than twenty homes blazing and the
flames spreading, while five dead, thir-
ty badly beaten and more than one
hundred arrested mark the toll of fierce
antinegro rioting. The battle is still
in full swing at the hands of about g.
600 organized whites, whose mob rule
has dispersed the local police, dis
armed guardsmen and taken posses
sion of the town.
East ST. Louis, Ill.,, July 3.-TwO ne
groes We're taken from a street car
here, one was shot and killed. the sec
ond beaten to death, and a white man
standing in front of his store was
killed by a stray bullet.
The turbulence of the mob increased
during the afternoon. Rioters took the
rifles from is National Guardsmen.
White men and white girls are partici-
pating in the violence.
The work of dragging negroes off the
street cars began at 80 o'clock,
when a crowd surrounded an Edwards
vile car, which goes through the heart
of East st. Louis, and pulled the troll
ley from the wire. Immediately white
men boarded the car and pulled out the
negro passengers. One of the negroes
taken off the car was kicked and beat
en- by the crowd in the street and then
was shot. He died in an ambulance a
few minutes later.
Board Car; Pull Negroes off.
While this riot was going on a Belle
vile car appeared. White men and
white women boarded it. White wom-
en- and white girls rushed negro wom~
en- off the car and when they werA
landed in the street the mob struck
and kicked them. The negro women
fled screaming. The negro men who
had been dragged off the cars were
surrounded and attacked by groups of
white men. One negro was hit on the
head with a heavy stick. He dieG in
an ambulance.
As street cars appeared the mobs of
white men and women boarded them
and continued to drag out the negro
men and women.
Finally National GuardSmen arrived
on the scene and began to clear the
streets at this spot.
Rifles were taken from 10 guards
men by members of the mob, who
would approach soldier, and saying.
Here, boy, let me look at that gun
you might hurt someone" would take
the weapon away from him.
Late in the afternoon National
Guardsmen took negroes from East st.
Louis to st. Louis, Mo-, in vanloads.
Guardsmen marched at each side Of
the vans to protect the negroes.
All saloons were ordered closed at
two O'clock until further notice.
Detective Sergeant Samuel Coppedge
WAS killed. three other officers were
wounded, one of them so severely that
he may die, and two citizens were shot
here early In the morning by negro
mob IN a recurrence of race rioting
After the killing of the officer the ne
groes dispersed.
The trouble began about 10: 30 in
the morning. when a colored mob. esti-
mated Mt 200, all armed assembled at
a church in response to the ringing of
a bell and began marching down the
street.