The Denver star., 1917-07-14
Shooting Negro
Sunday Night Mistaken Rioters Sain.


The country been aroused of shame
pity the magnitude of the national disgrace enacted
by the blood thirsty rioters in East St Louis Monday July
So much has been said in the daily about the affair
that it would be waste of time review the the
horrible for the false reports made and
the probable result on the minds OF the people,
Although the fact that Negroes armed when the
ronp was given credit the claim that they
planning uprising investigation shows that arming
was only protection. Eye witnesses ofhe initial con-
ct Sunday dsprove the first reports of the press
The trouble the Negroes 1t dates back
to the first May 7S Since that time Negroes have
been wayad by white thugs without
ton daily Sunday night Negro seized by gang
near the Municipal Bridge and in self defense he managed
to get his gun and shot one OF his assai'ants
= Later in the evening" some time after midnight an
automobile loaded with white men raversed portion OF the
Coored district speeding rapid and its occupants
shooting into the homes OF the residents Inese snots
roused So far the raging OF church bell
calling then 70 arms claims to have heard it, The
only claim i daily The firing OF Shots
one caused the out into their yards and on
the streets o ascertain the trouble
Fol,ovinp this another automobile the scene
and the Negroes Immediately fired upon it, thinking this
was machine with lawess whose purpose
repeat the of the preceding one hey
proved police officers who drawn to the scene by
the shot. fred by the occupants of the first car:
One officer was killed and another wounded The au
tomobe shows indications of being hit five six times
How many the crowd uncertain but there was no
military formation as stated.
The Negroes deny that of words
and The report that they said 1--WE don't need
was only that had been made by some
one over ago and coupled with this report to
give it color.
According to one account prior the plain clothes off
GERS coming with the Colored in the public
xouare four or who looked like them rode through
the Coored district auto and amused themselves by
loudly cussnR damning the Coored people, shooting in
to their homes finally ending by touiy killing one Color
ed can ever describe the most
appalling rendering that were enacted IN
thar hell hole of creation form the twnkng of
an eve two or three white gentlemen appeared on
the they had out OF the earth and
without one moments they in the cold blood
ID to shoot down every Coored
man child that they could in contact WITH
some Of them eighty and ninety old and not
h,e TO harm anyone their lives horribly ended with
.- m the part those helsh murderers; while those
terrible being enacted the Dig oury
brutal ardly olioe OF that city we're fully stepped
:, race oredce and cowardce At the first outbreakng OF
h oh one month compelled all the Colored women to
their lower extremties while they the police officers
'.rch.d Them for concealed that time
tk;no dead sure shot every police officer who attempt
81 o take such shameless undue liberties with respectable
CoIored women and Sunday evening these same police
c.rs under the instructions of Fred W. Moman the spine
.s. avor of ST. Louis invaded the homes OF the Col
.d neooe and completely dsarmed every OF them so
h, thew would absolutely the OF the mob but no
t.mnt was made by them to disarm one single
ht. and the slightest attempt made on
~. oar Of the would police maintain law and order
s;h and .houd be Supreme all the time at any cost on
49, .,hr h.nd police from Chief Ransome Payne down
~. io~eee man on the 10 hearty sympathy