The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-02
NEGROES RIOT IN
EAST ST. LOUIS
KILL DETECTIVE SERGEANT AND
WOUND OTHER OFFICERS
FIGHTING IN STREETS.

East st. Louis. ILL.,. July 2.-Illinois
guardsmen at noon today were patroh.
ing the streets of East st. Louis with
fixed bayonets as result OF the re-
newal Of the race disturbances
The turbulence Of the mobs increased
during the afternoon. Rioters got the
rifles away from 16 national guards.
men. White women and white girls
are participating in the violence.
East st. Louis, ILL.,. July 1.-Two ne
groes were taken from a street car
here this afternoon. shot and killed,
and a white man. standing In from
Of his store, was killed by a stray bun.
let.
Despite the troop patrols. the attacks
on negroes continued this afternoon. and
at one o'clock. eight negroes were in
hospitals. The attacks usually took
the form of a bombardment Of indi.
vidual negroes with stones and paving
bricks.
The trouble broke out anew abom
noon, when a negro appeared at a street
car transfer point-Broadway and Col.
linsville avenue-where a crowd Of
white men had assembled.
A white man struck the negro in the
face. and others knocked him down AM
kicked him. A white man fired five
shots AT the negro as he lay PROSTATE
wounded the black In one arm and
leg.
Dead" Man Runs Away.
The crowd drew back. thinking the
negro had been killed. and the negro
jumped up and ran away.
Later. a white man standing In front
OF the limo hotel began firing at a
negro several PAGES away. The ain
was bad. and the bullet hit white man
Louis Haege, 6b years old. The negrs
fed. the armed white man pursuing anC
firing.
The armed man was arrested. but al
the demand OF n crowd Of white mer
the police released him. Later. q white
man was arrested. while addressing !
street crowd. The police say he wal
the man who n short time before wa!
released at the demand OF the mob.
East st. Louis. ILL.,. July AIT
o'clock a negro was shot In the head
The crowd cheered and clapped hand
as he was placed in an ambulance. Ma
tional guardsmen stood by apparent,
doing nothing 10 curb the disturbance
One negro was beaten 10 death.
The work OF dragging negroes on TN
street cars began at 1870 o'clock. whel
the crowd surrounded an Edward
street car.
As street cars appeared. the mobs O
white men and women boardei then
and continued to drag out the negr
men and women.
Finally. national guardsmen arrives
on the scene and began TO clear tn
streets at this spot.
Rifles were taken from i6 guardsmel
by members OF the mob. who would az
proach soldier. and saying. "Her,
boy, LET me look az that gun. Yo'
might hurt someone" would take tn
weapon from him.
All saloons were ordered closed at
o'clock until further notice.
Springfield. Ill.,. July Ask compaI
les Of Illinois national guard were o.
dered this morning by Governor Low
den at S:i5 in response TO n telegrar
from Mayor Fred Mollman, OF East s
Louis. 10 auell rioting Of negroes.
East 81. Louis. Ill.,. July 2.--Dete'
tive Sergeant Samuel Coppedge wa
killed. three other officers were wouni
cd. one Of them 30 seriously he ma
die. and two citizens were shot earl
this morning by negro mob IN a r
currence OF race rlotlng.
After the killing of the officer. n
negroes dispersed.
The police were armed with riot eur
7 and patrolled the streets all night
make sure that no further troub