East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-29
Two Dead and 56 Wounded in
Wild Melee When Police are
Overcome by Mob; Troops,
Machine Guns in Control.
5000 SEE BURNING OF
LYNCHED MEGR0'S BODY
Mayor Smith Rescued From
Mob When Rope on Neck is
Cut ;Sheriff and Deputies
are Overcome by Flames.

OMAHA. Sept. 2s.-The city was
placed under martial law at midnight
On the orders of General Wood at CHI
cago. Sixteen hundred soldiers are
patroIling the streets and machine
guns have been placed in the negro
district, in the vicinity of the court
house.
The soldiers seem to have the situa-
ton well in hand. A negro, VIII
Brown who assaulted Agnes Loeback
Thursday night was lynched at IL p.
m. and his body burned.
Mayor Smith was nearly hanged,
and the court house was burned.
Francis Clancy was shot and killed.
and 56 We're wounded in a riot here
last night.
While a thousand men, women and
children cheered. Brown was taken
from the roof of the burning court
house after smoke had all except over
come Sheriff Clark and his deputies.
Brown was hanged to telephone pole
and the mob then riddied his body
with bullets. cut 1t down and burned
IL, Mayor Smith almost suffered the
same fate when defied by the mob.
His last words. mumbled while he
was almost unconscious from beat
ings he had received, and with. a pc
around his neck. were: "I'1i give my
life if necessary but I'll not surrender
a negro, I'm going to enforce ths
law"
A tall we'll dressed man saved the
life when he cut the rope just
as the mayor was being lifted off
the ground. Police succeeded in rush
ing him away. He is still in critical
condition, but probably will recover.
The mob set fire to the court house
they were unable to break past the
sheriff and deputies.
Policemen Overpowered
A mob last night broke into pawn
shops and hardware stores and OBJ
aimed guns. They overpowered every
in the streets The cops
we're easily overpowered. They gem
rally surrendered clubs and guns
resistance.
Some one obtained gasoline and set
ire to the first floor of the courr
house, Police extinguished the blaze
nut the mob obtained more and soon
lanes were darting from the first.
econd and third floors. The sheriff
ook the prisoner to the roof. Snip
RS climed to the roofs of nearby
and fired on the little group
n the roof of the court house. When
he flames reached the fourth floor
he mob took the firemens' ladders
way from them and climber to the
oof. The sheriff was forced to SUR
ender the prisoner.
5000 Watch Burning
The mob tore practically all the
lothfng off the negro who was prac-
cally nude when the telephone pole
n which he was lynched was reached.
hots were fired into his body for 10
The mob tied the body to
ne end of a patrol wagon and dragged
about the city before burning IL. A
rowd of 5000 watched the burning.
Many persons pushed through the
rowd in an effort to get pieces of the
ody for souvenirs. Rioters stopped
and took gasoline from
he tanks to pour onto the blaze. Po-
ce arrested 81 in connection with tho
oting.
Mayor Regains Consciousness
Mayor Smith this afternoon regain
consciousness and able to sit up.
his delirium he moaned continus
isly: "You shall not take him"
fter the police rescued Smith a rag
mob burned the Mayors automo-
lie.
Feeling High Over Law
Light sentences imposed on negroes
r attacks made on white women are
,lieved to have melted the mob to
Ike the law into its own hands.
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