Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-07-03

last night that Twenty-Five companies
of militia were en- route to this city
and that the combined strength of the
troops to combat trouble tomorrow
would be several thousand
Stringent regulations will be put IN
to effect today to curb crowds that
may gather and it may be necessary
he stated to arrest every person found
on the streets without a good reason
for being there.
All travel across bridges leading
from St Louis to this city was stopped
last night and only persons carrying
police cards or wearing stars were per-
mitted to enter East St. Louis from the
other side.
Colonel Trip early in the evening
figured in a sensational rescue of a
negro man of middle age VINO was be-
ing dragged down Broadway.
The automobile bearing the colonel
and City Attorney Fekete appeared
when the rabole was in the act of
! stringing the negro to a telephone pole.
/ Colonel Trip leaped from the auto
mobile and persuaded the white at
! tackers to desist from their plan to
i kill the negro
! City Attorney Fekete later in the
night saved the life of another young
negro who was running from a crowd
him while the negro was plainly Wis
IDLE in the glare of burning buildings.
J Fekete placed the negro in his own
automobile and after arguing for ten
minutes with the group of men sue
ceeded in gaining their consent to al
low him to take the negro to the city
hall for protection.
At $50 o'clock last night a mob of
300 armed men charged into a negro
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member of the mob carried flaming
torch. Before they could start new
blaze, however, two hundred guards
men charged with fixed bayonets. The
troops fired volley over the heads of
the mob which then dispersed.
A battle between whites and blacks
broke out at the east entrance to the
st. Louis municipal bridge. Guards
men hurried there in trucks and ended
!, the combat. One of the white men
killed last night was Tom Moore. of
Granite City. He was standing beside
soldier when a bullet struck him.
The shot apparently was intended for
the soldier
The mob obtained ghastly amuse-
ment in the lynching of one negro
Two white men tied a rope around the
neck of the black and started to pull
him into the air. The rope broke and
the two white men fell flat on their
backs The crowd laughed The negro
dropped to the ground dead.
AS three negroes were trying to
escape from burning building, a mob
spied them. One negro was hanged to
a telephone pole and the other two
We're shot. The three dead bodies were
left lying in the street.
Inc flotlng was a recrudescence of
race troubles that occurred here a
month ago following the Importation
of large numbers of negro laborers
from the SOUTH
State troopers themselves were dis
& armed by the mobs in many in
stances during the day, and, together
with the police, seemed powerless
before the rioters.
The disorder began when a mob
of 200 negroes fired on an automobile
iodd OF pohcemen Sunday night, kill
ing one.
Before car service stopped. white
women and girls joined with the men
IN stopping street cars in the heart
OF the downtown district, dragging
out every negro on whom they could
lay their hands
Until the white women began to
help, negro women and girls had
seemed immune from attack, but
when this occurred, negresses, too,
We're attacked.
Sixteen guardsmen We're disarmed
this afternoon by members of the
mob. who calmly asked the soldiers
to give them the weapons lest the
guardsmen hurt someone in the
crowd.
Mayor Mollman ordered the saloons
closed at II o'clock this afternoon.
| and it had been hoped that this mea g