The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-03
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AGENTS SCENT GERMAN PLOTTERS

| station by motor vans ana hurried
90 the riot district
Leaping from the vans they de-
ploycd and started up the street in
| wide formation There was . crisp
order, rife bolts clicked and thc
men advanced.
A crowd was dragging an aged
Negro who had been beaten nearly
insensihle, az the end or rope II
was surrounded by the soldiers and
! The entire mob OF about $50 arrest
cd and hurried 20 Jail IN the mum
Der WAS a newspaper reporter and
many bystanders After being dc
lieycd leaders in the mob. were re
| leased
The BLACK Valley" a Negro
tenement belt runniug thru the
heart OF the city, was q mass of
flames by Z O'Clock Hundreds OF
! Negroes crowded in their homes un-
! til driven out by the flames As
hey ran out they We're shot down
/ Ike rabbits Many OF the bodies
! were dragged 90 Cahokia Creek and
thrown into the water.
I Hundreds OF haif-groWn boys and
! oung girls were in the mob. When
/ three Negroes were shot down at
! tho intersection OF Collinsville and
/ State-sts q crowd of white women
/ fell on their bodies, kicking them
! and beating them with stones and
I clubs Well dressed girls and wO.
men hair nying and clothing GOV
cred with blood. led units OF the
+ mob Two girls. not more than ~
/ years old. boarded a street car and
dragged of an old Negro woman.
1 They beat her into insonsibilitS
with their shoes
Frank Dickson, adiutantgon-
+ cral OF Illinois. reached the city a.
/ - 30 this morning and WAS taken
/ over the riot district boy states At
torney Shaumlefer.
~ is tho most terrible sight
/ have ever witnessed" said Dickson.
a surgng mob hunting Negro
/ physician. L. NJ Bundy. rushed past
he adiutant generals car. They
/ did not find Bundy. believed one OF
the men who melted the blacks to
| Monday morning. outbreak II is
! supposed he has left the city
The city was placed in darkness
when white and black mobs cut all
| light wires Negroes did IL so they
would have = chance 10 escape the
! rioters. whites so they could cyade
militiamcn
Firemen. aided by many units
from the Missouri side, carried on
an unayailing battle against the
spreading flames More than IL
/ blocks were burned over The
Broadway opera house was destroy
ed with loss OF 100000 The
/ Southern freight house was still
burning early today and the loss Is
estimated at $250.000 More than
200 Negro homes. shacks. tenements
and apartment houses were burneu.
At s. 80 o'clock. traffic across all
bridges leading TO the Illinois side
was stopped Militiamen held the
crowd back with bayonets and there
was great deal Of scattered fight
ing 4 man on the bridge fired "A
fusilsde OF shots Al a log floating
in the river He thought II was a
Negro swimming TO the Missouri
side
AZ midnight word reached the
rioters that a thousand blacks from
Carondolet. Granite CITY. Belleville
and other points. had armed and
were approaching the city For a
time there. was panic.
Several hundred whites who had
barricaded themselves in school
house with their families, were at
tackled by Negroes, but militiamen
rescued them
The conduct. of the guardsmen
brought nothing but praise Many
Of them were under Are for the first
time. Boys, dressed in overals and
street coats. evidently fresh from
work. had only their rifles and car.
fridge belts One OF them. raw
lad Of rs, was slightly injured while
rescuing a dozen Negro women and
children. He had lost his revolver
and hat but kept q mob at bay
while he took the Negroes TO police
| headquarters. As they marched
down the street. white woman
dressed In blood srattored Trpck.
| BIT one Of the Negro children over
the head with an iron bar The
child vas trampled under foot and
appeared dead when placed in an
ambulance,