The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
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its height last night, white women.
took part in the outrages.
A story, illustrative # the temper
of the rioters, was told by George Aus
tin, of St. Louis. Mo, who saw the
mobs at work. White women beat
negro women as they fled from their
burning homes and tore off their
clothes. he said. Only one white man
was killed in last nights rioting and
he was shot by negro sniper. The
work of Sc; .rching the ruins for bodies
began before daylight. and early to-
day it was reported that eight bodies
had been found.
Probably 500 Negroes Injured.
Probably more than 500 had been
severely injured Property loss from
the fires. which started simultaneous
" in a dozen sections of the city short
" after o'clock last night, is esti-
mated at $1,500.00O.
II believe the worst is over" Col.
s. o. Trip. personal representative of
General LoNden, in command OF the
eight companies of the Illinois Ma
tioraI Guard patrolling the city, stated
carly today.
The mob seems to have spent itself.
Fighting has dwindled to desultory
firing in different parts of the city
and most of the fires have burned out.
ONLY two white men, Detective Ser
negro mob at l o'clock Monday morn
ing, and William Keyser, hardware
merchant, are known dead, tho
score are badly wounded in hospitals.
Scenes when the rioting was at its
height between O'Clock and mid
night beggar description press
correspondent counted the bodies of
seven dead negroes lying iE the streets
within a block of the intersection of
the towns main business thorofares at
a1,- a.
beaten into insensibility, was hanged
to a post half a block from the cor
ner while a squad of twenty-five mill
liamen looked on helplessly.
Mob Numbered 10000.
The mob at o'clock probably num-
bered about 10. 600 persons, auuhori-
ties estimated. The city was virtual
~ under martial law, after the frantic
pleas from Mayor Mollman. whose
life was several times threatened. A
few minutes after 8 o'clock two new
companies of militia from Shelbyville
and Effingham arrived. The men
were met at the station by great nc
or vans and hurried at once to the
riot district
Leaping from the vans they deploy-
ed and waded up the street in wide
formation. There was crisp order,
rifle bolts clicked and the men ad-
vanced with steel balls in their rifle
A crowd was dragging an aged
negro who had been beaten nearly in
sensible at the end of a rope. 1t was
surrounded by the soldiers and the
entire mob of about $50 arrested and
hurried to jail. In the number was a
newspaper reporter and many by
ISLANDERS. After being detained several
hours, all but Seventy-fiVe, believed
leaders in the mob, were released.
The BLACK Valley" a negro tene-
hal h ..H
the city, was a mass of flames by 7
o'clock Hundreds of negroes crowd
ed in their homes until driven out by
the flames. AS they ran out they were
shot down like rabbits Many of the
bodies were dragged to Cahokia creek
and thrown into the water.
Boys and Girls in Mob.
Hundreds of half grown boys and
young girls were in the mcb. When
three negroes We're shot down at the
intersection of Collinsville and State
streets, a crowd of white women fell
on their bodies kicking them and beat
ing them with stones and clubs. Well
dressed girls and women, hair flying
and clothing covered with blood, led
units of the mob Two girls, not more
than 10 years old, boarded a street car
and dragged off an old negro woman.
They beat her into insensibility with
their shoes.
Frank S. Dickson, adjutant general
of Illinois, reached the city at 1890
this morning and was taken over the
riot district by States Attorney
Schaumleffer.
1T is the most terrible sight have
ever witnessed" he said.
A surging mob hunting a negro
quack physician known as DR.. L. NJ.
Bundy, rushed past the adjutant gen.
erals car. They did not find Bundy,
believed one of the men who melted
the blacks to Monday mornings out
break, and it is supposed he has left
the city.
City in Darkness.
The city was placed in darkness
when white and black mobs cut all
light wires. Negroes did it so they
would have a chance to escape the
bloodthirsty rioters. whites so they
would be less bothered by the squads
of militiamen.
Fire fighters aided by many units
from the Missouri side, carried on an
unavailing fight against the spread
ing flames. More than twelve blocks
We're burned over. The Broadway
opera house has been burned at loss
of 100000. The Southern freight
house is still burning and the -oss is
estimated at s25O,0OO. More than
200 negro homes. shacks. tenemen.s
and apartment houses are burned.
At $50 O'Clock traffic across ali
bridges leading to the Illinois side was
stopped. Militiamen held the crowd
back with hayonets and there was a
| great deal of scattered fighting A
man on the bridge fired a fusillade of
shots at a log floating in the river
/ He thou2htHt was a negro swimming
to the Missouri side.
RuInorcd Black Mob Coming.
At midnight word reached the riot
crs that a thousand blacks from Ca
rordolet. Granite City. BelleviIe and
/ other points had armed and We're an
/ preaching the city. For a time there
! was panic. Several hundred whites
| who had barricaded themselves in a
| scEoolhouse with their families were
| alta cked by negroes but militiamen
| rescued them.
The conduct of the guardsmen