South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-03

done along the tracks of the South
ern Railway CO.. where the South
ern warehouse and between 100 and
$50 cars many Of them loaded with
merchandise. were consumed By the
flames. The damage here was esti-
mated at between 100000 and
100000.
The Broadway theater. values at
100000 was entirely destroyed.
and at II p. m. the flames we're
moving steadily alonG the tracks.
almost unhindered by the feeble eff
forts of the firemen. which were di-
rected toward preventing the blaze
from spreading to more important
buildings.
Col. Trip early in the evening
figured i'm the rescue Of a Negro who
was being dragged down Broadway
by rope which was attached 20 his
neck The automobile bearing the
colonel and city Atty. Fekete APP
peared when a mob was in the act
phone pole Col Trip leaped from
the automobile and persuaded the
white attackers TO desist from their
plans TO kill the Negro.
City Atty. Fekete later in the
night saved the life OF another young
Negro who was fleeing from a crowd
which had fired a number OF shots
at him.
White Girls Pound Negroes.
Two young white girls last night
boarded a street car and dragged a
Negro woman TO the street. a great
cheer went up from a crowd of men
as the Negress was pulled off the
car. The Negro woman attempt
ed TO break away but one of the
young girls took off her shoe and
pounded her over the head. She was
bleeding when national guardsmen
rescued her The white girls were
not arrested. They appeared to be
about Il years old.
At 1880 o'clock mob OF 500 men
charged into a Negro district on
Third st. Nearly every member of
the mob carried a flaming torch.
Before they could start a new blaze.
however. 500 guardsmen charged
with fixed bayonets The troops fired
"a volley over the heads of the mob
when they dispersed.
A battle between whites and
blacks broke out at the east en-
trance to the st. Louis municip al
bridge. Guardsmen hurried there in
trucks and ended the combat. One
of the whit emen killed last night was
Tom Moore OF Granite City He was
standing beside a soldier when a
bullet struck him The shot APP
parently was intended for the sol
der.
Amused at Lynching.
The lynching Of a Negro last night
caused a mob great amusement.
Two white men tied a rope around
the neck of the black and started
20 pull him into the air The rope
broke and the white man fell on
their backs. While the crowd laugh
ed the Negro cropped TO the ground
dead.
AS three Negroes were trying TO
escape from a burning building a
mob spied them one Negro was
hanged 20 a telephone pole and the
other two were shot. The three
bodies were left i'm the street.
Fires Started at O'Clock.
AT g O'Clock white mObs began to
set fire TO the homes in the Negro
quarters. state troops themselves
were disarmed 10y the mobs i'm many
instances and together with the po-
lice seemed poverless before the
rioters
The disorder which began when
a mob OF zoo Negroes dred on an
automobile loaded with policemen
sunday killing one, reached
climax in the broad daylight Monday
forenoon. I'm this outbreak three
Negro men and one white man were
killed. two white men and two
NeSroes were shot and wounded and
% others so badly beaten and stoned
that they were taken 10 hospitals
Escorted Into Missouri.
Last night. with the saloons closed
and street car service stopped by
order OF the authorities. national
guardsmen beSan escorting truck
loads Of Negroes across the river To-
Missouri
Until The white women began u
participate. negro women AMI girls
seemed immune from attack brit
when this occurred Negresses. too.
we're terrorIzcd and attacked
As the riotng downtown progress
ed, undertakers lined their wagons
by the curb. ready for the expected
cali 90 haul away the dead
The Negroes seemed helpless iu
the fact of Mondays outbreak. The
two white men who were shot and
the one who was killed were VIC
Tins OF stray bullets.
rs CuaTdsmon Disarmcd.
sixteen -uardsmen were disarmeC
10y members Of the mob who calmly
asked the soldiers TO -ive them the
weapons, lest the guardsmen hurt
someone iu the crowd"
Mayor NoIman ordered the So
looms closed al noon and il was
hoped that this measure would pre-
vent any serious outbreak
The guardSmen. according 20 the
commander. Maj. william Klauset.
patrolled the streets with loaded