The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-10
|1ER AND ARSON
RLO HIGH CARNIVAL
LrRN WHITE MODS SHOOT
&c OF NEGROES AS THEY
FROM BLAZING HOMES.
Lynch HAS AN
|OUGY IN AN ILLINOIS CITY

UNUl AAN 4S'
Horrible Acts of Butchery
Committed Upon Helpless
l.. Ferocity of White Women.
900 Damage.
h ST. LOUIS, Ill.-Smolder-
ms of six entire city blocks,
R5 known dead and hundreds
ID and dying is the toll today
greatest race riot in the ma
history here last night.
d.mad men and women rose in
Itv mob of 10000 during the
Ind wreaked vengeance upon
lex population of the city for
.asination of Police Detective
negroes were shot and killed
He'd from their burning homes
Had been set on fire by white
entire CITY was threatened
Snfagration, which spread in
Erection from the torch light
i in negro huts in the black
It one time it appeared that
kness section would be destroy
image today was conservative
hated at 100000.
presence of upward of 1000
AEzed Illinois national guards
siled to check even Temporal
crazed men and women.
8 than 400 prominent citizens
bcarcerated in the city Jail dur
j night, arrested at the instiga-
militia officers.
temper of the town was re-
when men, women and chill
Elected to watch the recovery
bed negro bodies from the fire
sbm the river front and cheer
she grewsome bodies were
to light.
a Mollman today declared he
Jed the entire city over to the
demanded that martial law
bred, and was ready to obey
rules. He blamed labor lead
packers for the riots and said
Expectations of blacks had
wded the black belt and fore
foes into the white sections.
Smanager of a packing house
sreceived a letter threatening
III he employed any more col
Help.
Farmers Ask Aid.
PIERS living on the lonely out
Nj the city today phoned for
4 protect their cattle and fowls
unger-crazed blacks who had
b out of the city. Flying
Of soldiers in autos were dis
to patrol country roads.
Of the prisoners held have
EN- for 48 hours, merchants
in some instances to furn-
for negroes held in deten-
bps.
D who protested against the
OF a negro early today was
lis hands bound, and he was
toward a bridge. Women
Kissed him and kept him
Oy jabbing him with hatpins,
lIy was afurry with rumors
% Of 800 armed blacks were
g to march to this city and
ne Wholesale slaughter of fell
foes.
POO Of negroes which formed
erted shack in the extreme
OF town and started for the
Ine city singing and shout
ana dispersed to shelter
pc x of national guards
them.
negroes walked out of town
abroad tracks, more cross
missouri side where all was
sui others, assured of pro-
" the augmented force of
returned to their homes.
nose homes were burned,
n "a Tor in a camp hastily ar
y the chamber of commerce.
nded Negro Butchered.
clothing taken from dead
We're shown today by SOU
nJers' One brutal incident
gnu was related today. On
'eeI' near Broadway, three
negro, apparently dead,
4 gutter. One flashed a
nI IN his face and saw that
reathed.
%nat do you know about
81 e,%cIalmed; mot dead vet. +"
rne of his comrades then
poo pistols and fired a bullet
legro's head.
v Ul The mob lynched one ne
"a LSs using a little black child
H. 20 protect him from the
bv we " White men. The black,
oO white men, seized the
'e o crossed at Fourth and