The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-18
WINSTON SALEM IS SCENE OF MOB RULE;
 SEVERAL ARE DEAD
Crowd Demands Negro Charged With Assault and Murder-Several
 Citizens Injured

Winston Salem, N. C., November IT, Least five persons are known to have been killed and probably score or others injured. several seriously, in riot here tonight which resulted from the efforts of a mob of several thou sand men to storm the city jail and lynch a negro accused of shooting J. E. Childress and Sheriff F1ynt and at tacking Mrs. Childress last night. l The known dead are: Rachael Levi, young woman bystander, and Robert Young, fireman.
 l The more seriously injured include Margaret George Linwood Hecler, John Rumpler, citizens, and Frank O'Brien and R. T. Hawley, members of the home guard
 ] Late tonight firing still was going on l in different parts of the city, the mob lfinally having broken into small groups. | Efforts of the home guard and the po- I lice to restore order Were unavailing even at that hour and Governor Bick- }ett was asked to intervene. He or dered home guards here from Greens l boro and arranged to have q company l of regular soldiers sent from Camp Polk, near Raleigh.
 Five of the more seriously injured, including two members of the home guard, were taken to hospitals but many others were treated at their homes The total humber of injured was not known and the police would not even hazard an estimate
 The first mob formed this afternoon about 3:90 o'clock and stormed the jail. Three shots were fired and the negro accused of shooting the two men and tattacking Mrs. Chldress was seriously wounded. while white prisoner named Tragg also .was hit in the arm by a stray bullet.
 After some difficulty the police sue lceeded in clearing the crowd out of the building and then the mayor called out the home guards Quiet reigned for time, but later the report went laround that the negro shot was not the man that had been sought By night fall the mob had reformed and started marching to the jail which was sur rounded by home guards
 Hardware stores were broken into and revolvers. shotguns and other weapons and ammunition taken. AS the mob marched it increased in size anc when it's objective was reached | numbered several thousand. The mayor sought to address the crowd, but coult Inot be heard. In the meantime the fire company arrived and when the mol broke for the jail the firemen turned
 water on them.
 Firing immediately followed ant
 Young was shot dead A bullet hit Mis-
 Levi who was watching nearby Th' home guards answered the volley bu
 the mob quickly overpowered them ant
 went into the jail. Two members of tn
 guard were badly hurt by being throw
 bodily down a stairway which the,
 were guarding. apparently the mol
 did not find the negro it sought. fo
 no more of the prisoners were fire , upon. After an hour or mora the mo left the jail and started marchin ! through the business section of tn town. Gradually it broke into group and for a time it was feared that ther . would be race riot as some of tn : groups headed for the negro quarter: Late tonight, however, there had bee
 no clash between the whites and blacks } Greensboro N C., November 17.-Th : Greensboro home guards were calle on tonight to help suppress the disorde
 in Winston Salem and at 10 o'clock tn , guard left it's armory for the station t go by special train to the scene of tn trouble.
 
 the situation in Winston Salem by tele
 phone tonight, Governor Bickett ha
 ordered the Greensboro company 0
 state militia to the scene, and has ar : ranged fors250 tankers from Camp Pol to leave here at II o'clock.
 Charlotte, N. C., November 17.--Mayo
 McNinch has just been asked by tn : mayor of Winston Salem by long dis
 tance telephone to send police force there to aid in quelling the riot. Charlotte, N C., November 17--In re sponse to a request by telephone fror , the mayor of Winston salem throug I, the Charlotte police department, 15
 troopers from Camp Greene were or
 dered by the camp authorities tonight depart on a special train about mid night for Winston Salem to aid in quell i, ing the disturbances