New-York tribune., 1917-07-03
n.,tb Estimates Range
from IS to rs After Day
of Wild Disorder
City Is Placed
Under Martial Law
Women and Girls Join in
Dragging Victims from
StreetCars

v,,. S. Louis, H., July Pour dis
=, of this city are on fire tonight,
"a, the glare Of the flames the white
.-..,aiaries are hunting down and kill
,,croes. Men, women and children
-. bsen shot down as they fled from
49,, burning homes. The mobs, fren-
Thy race hatred. have spared no one.
The estimates Of the dead vary from
sa.sn 10 seventy-hve. 1t is impossible
:, ,,ll how many perished in the flames.
Names Of the negroes have been burned
nv the hundreds. Nor have the mobs
tanned there. Several valuable indus
,ssI plsnts have gone up in flames. In
,.s Southern Railways freight yards
hs.xeen 100 and $50 cars loaded with
r,rchandise have been destroyed. The
,o,sl damage in the city is said to be in
he neichborhood Of 100000.
Nor is any one able to tell how many
negro wounded are still lurking in the
srs swept districts where they lived.
There are eighty in the city hospitals.
Many more. it is believed, who have
ersyled away from the mobs are lying
HELPLESS or afraid TO seek aid.
All day long the city authorities
have tried 10 stamp out the riots. They
might as we'll have attempted TO tread
out the fres that they kindled. More
than 300 white men have been arrested
and riots continue.
City Under Martial Law
Military rule was proclaimed at s
o'clock tonight. Six additional com
panies Of state troops are being rushed
10 the city. Six other companies are
on duty here. and have been energetic
in their attempts TO quell the mobs.
YET at II O'Clock tonight fresh dis
triet Of the city was attacked and put
10 sames.
Women are helping the men in their
work Of murder and destruction. White
girls boarded streetcars tonight and
dragged of negro women, who were
turned over to the rioters, who greet
ed the girls actions with cheers. In
spired by the acclaim, one Of the girls
took of her shoe and beat a negress
over the head.
AZ $3.50 o'clock tonight a mob of
three hundred armed men charged into
negro district on Third Street. Near
y every member Of the mob carried
flaming torch. Before they could start
new blaze. however, two hundred
Gusrdsmen charged with fixed bayonets.
The troops fired a volley over the heads
Of he mob, which then dispersed.
A battle between whites and blacks
broke out az the east entrance to the
s.. Louis municipal bridge. Guardsmen
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 bullet struck him. The shot ap-
parently was intended for the soldier
Negro Is Lynched
The lynching Of negro tonight caused
q mob great amusement. Two white
men tied a rope around the neck of a
back and started 10 pull him into
the air. The rope broke and the white
men fell fat on their backs. While
the crowd laughed the negro dropped
to the ground dead.
As three negroes were trying TO
escape from burning building MOP
lped them. One negro was hanged 70
telephone pole and the other two
we're shot. The three bodies were lett
u the street.
Seyenty-fve white men attacked a
tsgro in front Of drug store down
town and shot him twice. attempted 20
drag him 70 a pole, and beat him as
hey pulled him along. The troops
charged with fixed bayonets, and the
mob scattered
With this show Of force the rioters IN
part quieted down. Troops stood guard
rall corners and kept the crowds NOV
ing. At $3.50 o'clock FIRE broke out IN
iae district known as the VALLEY" 1his
re came perilously near to the pig
railroad yards OF East ST. Louis. Az >
o'clock four more negroes were shot Dy
silpers. At 10 o'clock il appeared as II
ne VALLEY" district was doomed 70 de-
Nrue,ion. This is the third large area
= Be burned.
The rioting IS a recrudescence OF race
troubles that occurred here month
ego following the Importation OF
large numbers Of negro laborers from
ne South. Women and girls, joining
sih the men, dragged negro women
ION the streetcars in the downtown
s..liiriet during the day. Troopers
themselves were disarmed by the mob
M .A many instances, and, together with
ne police, seemed powerless before the
no,ers.
Negroes Kill Policeman