Evening journal., 1917-07-03
100 NEGROES ARE
slain IN NATIONS
WOR I R &c Ri I
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have spent itself. Fighting has dwindlcd
to desultory firing in different parts Of
the city. and most of the fires have
burned out
Only two white men, Detective Ser
geant Coppedge, who was killed by n
Negro mob at / o'clock Monday morning
and William Keyer, a hardware mer-
chant, are known dead, though score
are badly wounded in hospitals. The
rioting was at its height between @
o'clock and midnight A United Press
correspondent counted the bodies OF
seven Negroes lying in the streets with
in block of the intersection OF the
towns main business taoroughfares.
Another Negro, beaten into insensi-
bility, was hanged to a post half a block
! from the corner while a squad of twenty.
! five militiamen looked on holplessly.
The mob at o'clock last night num-
bcred 10000 persons, authorities esti-
mated. The city was virtually under
martial law after the frantic pleas rroui
Mayor Mollman, whose life was several
times threatened.
A few minutes after o'clock two new
companies of militia from Shelbyville
and Efdngham arrived. Tie men
were met at the station by motor vans
and hurried to the riot district
Leaping from the vans they deployed
and started mp the street IN Wide forma-
ton. There was a crisp order, rifle bolts
clicked. and the men advanced.
A crowd was dragging an aged Negro,
who had been beaten nearly iusensible
at the end Of rope IL was surrounded
by the soldiers and the entire mob OF
about 25O arrested and hurried TO Jail
In the number was newspaper reporter
and many bystandcrs. After being de-
tained several hours, all but 70 believed
leaders IN the mob were released
Tho "black valley" q Negro tenement
belt running through the heart of tae
city was a mass of flames by O'Clock,
Hundreds of Negroes crowded In their
homes until driven out by the flames.
As they ran out they were shot dOwn.
Many of the bodies were dragged to
Cohollia creek and thrown into the
water.
Frank S. Dickson, adiutant general Of
Illinois reached the city Mt 1890 o'clock
this morning and was taken over the
riot district by States Attorney Shaun.
lofTor.
ut Is tho most terrible sight ever
have witnessed" said Dickson
Tho city was placed In darkness when
white and black mobs cut all light wirep
Negroes did Il 40 they would have Il
chance 10 escape tho rioters whites
30 they could evade militiamen.
Flrcmcn aided by many units from
the Missouri side carried on an unavail
ing battle against tho spreading flames
More than 10 blocks were burned. Tn,
Broadway Opera House was destroyed
with a loss Of sl0OOO0 Tho Southern
freight house was still burning early to
day, and the loss is estimated at $3.50,
\ 600.
More THAI POO Negroe homes. shocks
tenements and apartment houses wer'
burned.
] Traffic across all bridges leading I,
the Illinois side was stopped Militia
men held the crowd back with bayonet
and there was great deal Of scattere'
fighting. A man on the bridge fired
fusilla6e Of shots at log floating in 'ls
river. He thought II was a Negro swim
ming 20 tho Missouri side
At midnight word reached the white
that 000 blacks from outside town
had armed and were approaching tn
city. For a time there was panic.