The Denver star., 1917-07-14
Negro Blood Runs Like Water.



Mistaken For Rioters Slain.
with the helsh damnable blood
Thirsty who hell upon numbering cold blood
innocent law abiding Coored and little child
destroying their humble homes by setting them FIRE
scattering their belongings <very direction and
ing them to flee to the tour winds.
Argus Reporter on Scene.
reporter for ST. Louis Argus arrived on the scene
Monday afternoon and his Of the horrible
that perperated in this manufacturing
Lincoln from that time until midnight beyond the belief
of intelligent manhood Never before in the history the
Land OF the Free and the Home Of the Brave
stopped such depths of savagey and such
atrocious crimes.
The statements of the daily cruelty to
the Negroes administered by the blood thirsty mob and
the axty of the police and militia exaggerated
While states that there less than
hundred Negro women aud children shot. tortured
and burned to DEATH he believes there How
many may know. More than two hundred
homes DESTROYED with all their The of
the Of life and sas no. the thckly
populated district S4 oh SO k6wartly 70 invade r.
but vented its fury soared and helpless victims
1t had choice 1t sporting crowd hunting for
game Innocent men. women and children fleeing their
burning plead tor mercy but shot down and their
bodies thrown back BE- consumed by the flames Injured
men dispatched death by clubbing seonne and
stamping Dying victims strung poles others
thrown in the water drown And all occurred be
fore the of the police and within range of the guns
of the militia effort made check fury of
the mob.
Over in St Louis they caring for of refuge
me Ked Gross got into action at white girls
good homes working side by side with Negro girls to check
up names and care for the destitute.
In the municipal lodging house tot cried endesslv 81
want my daddy want my daddy"
l asked the mother where daddy was She didn't
know, and maybe will.
Henry Woodruff told me he ran from his home into a
soldiers arms. and that's all that saved him.
Prot Martin Lucas. Negro principal hid all night in
swamp and escaped the river One man swan the
river.
For months there has trouble smoderny here
More than 5000 Negroes have within have wear
About square blocks swept of everything that will
burn Twisted iron beds-frequenty in room as YOU
can easily see-chesp cook and iron utensils things
that is lett except that in many these little beds of ashes
are human bones.
(! Haunted City.
Under the pile OF bricks that was an opera house
seating is expected from 50 bodies will be found
Meanwhile this is haunted city Negroes have been
watching endless procession going under militia pro-
out with only clothes on their backs and
crude little bundles filled with who knows what?
Many white ladies' with all their so-caed culture and
with the of readily transformed
themselves into the most revolving specimens anty
and freely joined their blood stained hands those of the
ring leaders OF the mob they in the edifynR
led OH in the most highly laudabe Christian work of drag
ging Core from the street cars beating them
heads with their Shoes clubs brckbats and so on pull
ing out their har scratching and cutting the face
some instances white gentlemen assisted the
fair white ladies' to commit those crimes against
society law and order To the everlasting credit of
white lady she bravey and bitterly protested against such
brutal treatment Of Coored by white gentlemen and
she decared that frheS American c,z<ns thew
woudss ooce further refrain from committing such vicious