Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-03
SHOOTING REPORTED
AGAIN TODAY; MANY
INHUMAN ACTS SEEN
Property Loss Estimated at
$3o0,ooo- Jail Yard Filled
With Prisoners.
ONE CROWD WANTED
TO LYNCH MAYOR
Blamed for Hiring Negroes
White Women, Gone
Berserker, Assail Blacks.

Berserker, Assail Blacks.
East St. Louis, Ill, July 3.-With
the Jail cells and yards crowded with
negro and white prisoners and with
frenzied whites still rushing through
the streets, the race riots, which broke |
out here Saturday night, continued
today. More national guardsmen
patrol. the streets and guard bridges
and roads leading to the city, and
firemen from St. Louis, Mo-, arrived
here to aid the local department in
lighting the fires, many Of which
broke out anew this morning. Ad-
ditional fires were set this afternoon.
AT conference between Adjutant
General Dickson, Colonel Tripp, as
sistant adjutant general, and 100,
business men, Samuel McGlynn, a
lawyer, denounced the conduct of the
national guardsmen, saying that Il
they had done their duty there would
have been no serious rioting. The
guardsmen, he said, did not try to
break UP the crowd and in fact frater-
nized with the rioters.
Adjutant General Dickson said that
if he learned of any case in which a
guardsman failed to do his duty he
would be court martialed at once
Colonel Tripp said that up to
o'clock last night he had only 80
guardsmen with which to handle the
rioters.
creased to ,27 today when the bodies
oes three more negroes We're FOUND.
One of the dead was a 2-year-old girl.
81 st. Louis FireI1en Help.
N Two fire companies have arrived
from ST. Louis, No.. to help fight the
t3lazes which continue to spread.
SS Rfes which Vert started by rioters
\ in three negro quartera at noon were
Tanned by a high wind and spread
rapidly, getting, I, beyond control. "a
general fire alarm has been sounded
is.lnG ,slEe, fighting pparatus N ths
city has hurried ,toSthe seen
Troops and police have hurried TO
the scene Of the hres,. where crowds
Z Of rioters also are assembled. Five
. or six negro shacks are on fire and the
flames are spreading rapidly
Three cases Of smallpox developed
" over night emong negroes quartered
on the third floor Of the city hall, 1T
1 was reported. The patients were taken
to a hospital.
shops opened as usual, but there
was practically no business. Citizens
seemed worn out with the excitement
of the night and were too busy dis
cussing what is said to be the worst
race riot in the history of the country,
to resume the ordinary affairs OF lie.
Further shooting was reported py
the police but without details as the
afternoon wore on. Ambulances were
scurrying hither and hither. Chief OF
Police Payne hearing that crowd OF
roughs from the Missouri side Of the
river were coming over, each to get
nigger, :" appealed to Chief of Police
Young Of st. Louis. Mo-, to close the
bridges. These were closed last night,
hut were re-opened again this morn
ing. "A few fires burst anew IN
wrecked buildings, keeping the fire.
men busy.
L, $40 Dwellings Razed.
Three hundred and ten dwellings,
mostly negro shacks, valued at $780,
900 were destroyed by flre In the riot
Ing last night, according to q state
rnent made today by Fire Chief M. Y.
TQbin.
Negroes who could not be cared for
in the Jail were huddled in groups, In
cluding some whites. in the prison
yard, where they had fed during the
One brutal incident Of the night was
related among many others today: or
4 Fourth street, near Broadway, thfee
men saw a negro, apparently dead
lying In a gutter. One flashed
pocket light in his face and saw thai
he still breathed.
"Well. what do you know about
that" he exclaimed; mot dead yet
He and one of his companions, then
drew their pistols and each fired 9
bullet into the negro's head.
Causes Of Riots.
The causes deeply underlying tn
disturbances are said to be Of inter.
est to many other northern communi
ties whore negro labor has beel
brought in from the south to replact
men enlisted in the armed forces o
the United States or who have beer
tempted to other sections by the higl
wages paid in munitions factories.
Race antagonisn famed UP las
May, combined with an attempt to OBJ
tain d permit from the city council
to build an addition to the negro set
tlement, but after bitter fight th'
project was defeated. has served =
Intensity feeling against the blacke
Petty crime is said to have increas
gan to feel that they would be SAD
died with an undesirable element 70
all time. Recently labor agitators ar
said to have been stirring up their In
fiammable followers.
Caamored for Mayor.
Il An incident Of the night indicate,
the temper OF the mob. One crow
4 went about the streets. shoutin
against the mayor.
s.Let.s get Mollmar. !" they criee
Hes the man that brought ,em II
Let's lynch the mayor =
The cry was raised because Of
false rurnor that Mayor Mollman wen
south and advertised chat negro labo
would be well paid in East st. Louii
AZ q matter OF fact the mayor visite
New Orleans and conferred wit
railroad heads ana others to discour
age the negroes from coming tn