Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-03

fA East ST. Louis, but was ordered back
- Chief SwinEley.
III States Attorney Schaumloeffel Of st.
III Clair County, drove through the riot
3$ swept district tonight with Police In
iS 3nector Walsh, OF st. Louis. Mo. The
III 6ttte's attorney estimated that tho
III dead negroes would number ESQ. All
however. are conjectural
is5$ Vast clouds Of smoke rolled across
!fs the sky tonight from the burning dis
53sffct; the flames made some Of the down
saSSte~'n streets as light as day. and now
sts knd then yelling mob rushed down
3SsSAfHtreet In pursuit Of negro or in
stsT&csrch OF new excitement National
afSo9NDrdsmen. loaded in automobile trucks.
S3s&ashed after the mob.
3ScS The fires started about o'clock this
gsasninE. and spread rapidly. Soon
sSson6mes, visible for miles were shooting
Ets into the sky. Hundreds OF negro
III women. most OF them carrying bundles
d that held their most precious belong
inss and leading children. fed across
ssA.ths bridge to shelter and safety with
iiet3riends on tho Missouri side.
wires were cut early in
trrStM evening. AS telegraph and tele-
,3WHhone poles caught fire, other wires
sli'eS'ent down.
'lGsa0RS IN EAST ST. LOUIS
St.3s;r' SWELLED By HUNDREDS
The mobs in East ST. Louis were
Ss-swelled by hundreds Of people who
fSSearly in the evening crossed the river
from st. Louis, Mo This added such
asmenace to the situation that at $50
o'clock the bridges were closed. This
Werced hundreds of residents OF subur-
ban towns to stay In st. Louis for the
night.
AS soon as street car traffic ended, at
{ z p. NJ, crowds walked across the
bridge in East st. Louis by the thou
/ sands
THE mobs got into lynchins mood
1 tonight. One aged negro was strung
4 UP on pole. but was rescued just in
\ tine to save his life. Soldiers rescued
4 still another negro.
J After military rule had been pro-
4 claimed the soldiers put more vigor
| Into their attempts to quell the mob.
With this show OF force the rioters.
in part, quoted down. Troops stood
guard at all corners and kept the
! crowds moving. Al $3.50 o'clock fire
broke out in the district known the
valley" This fire came perilously
near the big railroad yards at East
ST. Louis At o'clock four moro ne
groes were shot by snipers. AT 10.
o'clock it appeared as If the valley"
district was doomed to destruction.
This is the third large area to be
burned. The property damage will
reach many thousands.
Two young white girls tonight
boarded a street car and dragged a
reGro woman to the street great
/ cheer went up from a crowd OF men
Is the ncgress was pulled off the car.
Yhe negro woman attempted to break
May. but one OF the young girls took
of her shoe and pounded her over the
head. The white girls were not ar
rested. They appeared to be about
Seyenteen years old.
At $3.50 o'clock tonight a mob Of 800
armed men charged into a negro dis
'-fFlet on Third Street. Nearly every
member OF the mob carried a torch.
Before they could start a blaze. 200
guardsmen charged with fixed bayo-
nets and fired voliey over the heads
of the mob. which then dispersed.
A battle between whites and blacks
broke out at the east entrance to the
St Louis Municipal Bridge. Guards
/. men hurried there in trucks and ended
the combat. One OF the white men
killed tonight was Tom Moore, of
Granite City. He was standing beside
soldier. when a bullet struck him.
The shot apparently was intended for
the soldier.
The lynching OF a negro tonight
caused a mob great amusement. Two
white men tied rope around the neck
OF the black. and started to pull him
into the air. The rope broke and the
white men fell fiat on their backs.
While the crowd laughed. the negro
dropped to the ground dead
AS three negroes were trying TO es-
frNr
spied them. One negro was hanged to
a telephone pole. and the other two
were shot The three bodies were left
+ In the street.;
RESULT OF DEPORTATION
OF NEGRO LABoRERS
The riotine is a recrudescence OF race
troubles month ago. following the i'm
portation OF large numbers of negro
4 laborers from the South.
Tonight the rioting still progressed
In some quarters Of the town Women
and girls. joining with the men,
dragged negro women from the street
ears In the downtown district.
At s o'clock white mobs began to
set.ire to the homes in the negro quar-
ter, and az 7:l5 o'clock about twenty
were burning.
The disorder, which began when a
mob OF 200 negroes fred on an automo-
bite-load of policemen last night. kill
ing one. reached a climax this forenoon
In; this outbreak three negro men and
ora white man were killed. two white
mon and two negroes were shot and
twenty-three others so badly beaten
and stoned that they were taken to
hospitals.
Tonight when the saloons closed and
street car service stopped by order Of
tho authorities, national guardsmen he :
gan escorting truckloads of negroes
across the river to Missouri.
Until the white women began to
participate negro women and girls had
seemed immune from attack, but when
this occurred negresses. too. were at
tackled
The two white men who were shot
and the one who was killed were VIC
& Tins of stray bullets.
Sixteen guardsmen were disarmed bv
members of the mob. who calmly asked
tho soldiers TO give them .he wcanons