Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03

of three policemen and two civilians
early Monday morning.
The fires which were set by the
mobs during the night in five differ
ent parts of the city where negroes
lived, besides burning nearly two
hundred negro cottages destroyed
more than one hundred loaded
freight cars belonging to the South
ern Railway, valued at half a mill
lion dollars.
Many Fires
The Broadway Theater, valued at
more than 100000, was burned.
Although the fires burned for sew
eral hours they were brought under
control before daylight.
Eleven companies of the Illinois
National Guard, numbering about
1900 men, patrolled the streets to-
day with orders to prevent any loi-
tering at corners and any assembly
of people in the streets. AdJutant
General Frank Dickson, of Illinois,
said that troops would be so dis
posed throughout the city as to pre-,
vent repetition of last nights disor-
ders.
No Martial Law
General Dickson said that mill
tary rule had not been established
and probably would not be. Mayor
Mollman of East st. Louis, the adju-
tant said, asked for a declaration of
military rule and this fact gave rise
to the statement that it actually had
been proclaimed. He said that the
transfer Of military cases to civil
courts involved so many intricacies
that he was reluctant to ask the
governor to proclaim martial law.
Only one white man was killed
in last nights rioting, and he was
shot by a negro sniper. Two negroes
were hanged during the night by
mobs and four were Killed by snip
erS.
Search For Bodies
The work of searching the ruins
for bodies began before daylight
and it was reported that eight bodies
had been taken to various undertake
ing establishments.
Hundreds of negroes, many of
them women carrying babies, cross
ed into st. Louis, Mo-, last night. At
the same time thousands of curious
ity seekers from the Missouri side
crossed the bridges into East st.
Louis. making it more difficult for
the police and National Guard to
restore order.
500 in Jail
Hundreds of negroes are employ
ed in the big mills at Granite City
and many of them live in East st.
Louis. Some of the mills desiring
to save their men from attack, would
not allow the negroes to leave for
home at the usual hour.
Early to-day the guardsmen, un-
der command of Adjutant General
Dickson, rounded up more than 500
rioters and brought them to the
city Jail.
Guard Did Not Shoot
The troops who were on duty dur
ing the most serious disturbances,
being under civil authority, were or
dered not to shoot. This resulted in
a number of rifles being taken
forcibly from the soldiers. In ex-
PLANTATION of the failure of the troops
to fire on the mobs, General Dick
son said that the purpose for which
the troops had been sent had been
gained without firing a shot and that
wholesale bloodshed would have
been the result of any firing on the
part of the troops.
Squads of soldiers sent out to
bring in firearms found in possess
sion of any whites or negroes, seiz-
ed dozens of revolvers, rifles and
shotguns. One youth found with a
meat cleaver, concealed under his
COdlt Stlu lie MOulu HdNG uSSu II
to kill a negro had an opportunity
been offered.
Operate With Candles
One of the results of the fires was
to plunge parts of the city in dark
ness. Surgeons at st. Mary's Hos
pital and the emergency operating
| rooms, opened in the City Hall,
were forced to do their work while
| policemen held flashlights or candles
over the tables.
In the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road yards a negro woman leading a
small child was attacked by white
women who were following a mob.
| The negro woman seized the child
in her arms and ran into a cottage
| which the white women bombarded
! with stones and chunks of coal. The
woman escaped without serious in
| jury.
Sensational Rescue
Colonel S. o. Tripp, of the Illinois
Guard, was the chief figure in SEN
sational rescue of an aged negro
The black, with a rope around his
neck, was being dragged through a
street by more than hundred men
An automobile bearing Colonel
Tripp and Attorney Fekete appear
ed as the mob was about to hang
the negro to a pole. Colonel TripT
left his car and forced his way