Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-07-03
) DEA I HIS
IN ILLINOIS
RACE WAR
East st. Louis, Scene of Riot
ing in May, Again Be-
comes Center; Negroes
and White Men Battle in
Streets.
MILITIA UNABLE
TO RESTORE ORDER

East st. Louis, ILL., July 1.-Two
negroes who were taken from
street car here this afternoon
were killed, one being shot and
the other beaten to death.
A white man, standing In front
Of his store, was killed by stray
bullet.
Despite the troop patrols. the at
tacks on negroes continued and At
I O'Clock eight negroes were in
hospitals. The attacks usually
took the form Of q bombardment
Of individual negroes with stones
and paving bricks.
GUARDsMEN ARE DlsARMED.
The turbulence Of the mobs In
creased during the afternoon. Riot
ers took the rifles away from six
teen national guardsmen.
White women and white girls
are participating in the violence.
For two hours before this oc-
eurrenee, guardsmen had been
patroliing the streets Of East st.
louis with fixed bayonets as re-
suit Of the renewal OF race disturb
anees which apparently had been
queiied after an early morning riot
In which an officer was killed.
The trouble broke out anew
shortly before noon, when negro
appeared at a street car transfer
point, Broadway and co'lirsville
avenue, where a crowd Of white
men lad assembled.
AGED MAN SHOT.
A white man struck the negro IN
Che face, and others knocked him
down and kicked him. A waite
man ilreo five shots az the NEGRO
% ne lay PROSTATE. woundlng him
In the arm and leg.
Later. white man began hrin9
At negro several PAGES away.
The aim was bad and the bullet
hit another white man. Louis
Haeae, 65 years old. The negro
fed. the armed white man pursu.
Ing and firing.
The armed man was arrested.
but at the demand Of crowd OF
white men the police released him.
Later a white man was arrested
while addressing street crowd.
The police say he was the man
who a short time before was re-
leased at the demand Of the mob.
All saloons were ordered closed
at 2 o'clock until further notice.
NEGRO SHOT; CROWD CHEERS.
Al 2 o'clock negro was shot In tn
cad. The crowd cheered and clappe
ands as he was placed in an amb'
,nce. National guardsmen stood b!
pparentiy doing nothing to curb tn
The work of dragging negroes O.
he street cars began at 1880 o'cloc
hen a crowd surrounded an Edwards
lille car which goes through the heal
Z East st. Louis and pulled the trolle
rom the wire. Immediately whit
Zen boarded the car and pulled out tn
egro passengers. One of the negroe
aken off the car was kicked an
eaten by the crowd in the street an
hen was shot. He died in an amb,
,nce few minutes later.
WOMEN JOIN IN RIOT.
While this riot was going on
bellevue car appeared. White men an
,hite women boarded it. White WI
zen and white girls dragged negro WI
zen off the car and when they wer
anded in the street the mob struc
nd kicked them. The negro wome
ed screaming. The negro men VIII
ad been dragged of the cars wer
and attacked by groups {
yhite men. One negro was struck o
he head with a heavy stick. He die
4 an ambulance.
HOW GUNS CHANGED HANDS.
As street cars appeared. the mob
Z white men and women boarde
hem and continued to drag out tn
egro men and women.
Finally national guardsmen arrive
n the scene and began to clear tn
treets at this spot.
Rifles were taken from sixtee
uardsmen by members of the mo
,ho would approach a soldier and sa,
ng, Here boy. let me look at that gur
ou might hurt some one," would TAX
he weapon away from him.
NEGROES KILL DETECTIVE.
Detective Sergeant Samuel Coppedg
vas killed, three other officers wer
wounded. one of them so seriously
nav die. and two citizens were she
ere early this morning by a negr
mob in the first recurrence Of rae
ioting. After the killing of the Office
he negroes dispersed.
The trouble began about 1880 a. n
rhen a mob of negroes, estimated a
100. each man armed with some sol
L weapon, assembled at a churc
n response to the ringing of a bel
nd began marching down the street.
POLICE ARE DEFiED.
When word was received at polio
eadauarters that a mob had formed
our policemen were sent to the seen
a an automobile. As the car turne
corner. the headlights showed tn
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