The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-02
REFUSES TO GIVE UP NEGRO RAV1SHER HE is
STRUNG UP UNTIL CUT DOWN BY POLICE
ISM CRITICAL CONDITION

BODY OF NEGRO is R1DDLED BY BULLETS AND
DRAGGED THROUGH STREETS BY AUTOMO-
BILE AND FINALLY BURNED.
Omaha, Neb, Sept. 29-Martial law was declared in
Omaha following night of riot. Sixteen hundred SOL
ders patroed the streets with machine guns mounted in
the vicinity of the courthouse and negro district MODS
were dispersed and the situation is apparently under
troll of soldiers Summed the results of the Is hours
of riot rule in Omaha is folows VIM. Brown negro,
identified by Agnes Loeback 49, the who assaulted
her. ynched and his body burned Francis Clancy shot
and killed when the police fired into the mobs Mayor Ed
ward P Smith in serious condition at the hospital suffer-
ing from injuries inflicted by the mob when they attempt
ed to lynch him when he refused to deliver the negro.
Douglas county court house newly built at cost s Of one
and now in the hospital Mayor Smith narrowly escaped
the fate of the negro when he deed the mob His last
words mumbed consequence Of the beating he
had received and with rope around his neck were: II
will give my life necessary but I'll not surrender the
negro am going to enforce the law" The mayors life
saved by the police when they charged the mob and
cut the rope from around his neck while he being lift
ed from the ground The mayor rushed to the hospi
tai and physicians said this morning his condition
critical but he would probably He
scous From six last night until the troops arrived this
morning the mob in control Of the town. Men,
and children filled the streets and the court house. pawn
shops and hardware stores looted for firearms and
powered and their clubs taken away from them and many
of them severely beaten. Sheriff Michael Clark and
his deputies successfully held the crowd at bay until the
court house set fire. Gasoline poured the
first floor and set fire: The police extngushed the fire
but the mob obtained gasoline from passing auto
mobile and soon flames shooting from the first,
Ond and third stories while the crowd hOWed with gee
The jail the fifth floor Sheriff Clark took his 100
the roof to escape the heat of the burning
building The main part of the mob in front of the
building and was there the sheriff concentrated his re-
sstance small number Of found their way to the
rear Of the building and steeple jack scaled the wall to
the fifth floor and let down rope Led by dressed
in sailors uniform of men climbed up with ropes,
OverpoWered the police and deputies The negro shov
ed through and down and taken to the fire landing AS
crowd and stripped naked The mob beat him up ter
rby and in few minutes he strung six feet from
the ground and target for the sotguns and revo
of the mob Later be taken down tied to auto
mobile and dragged through Omahas north side the negro
settlement Some of the mob built bonfire and threw his
body into the fire and the mob watched burn The mob
we'll armed of the largest gun stores looted
before the attack the jail started Thirty
arrested by the police in connection with the rioting All
of them found to be carrying guns and ammunition
and all are being held.
Mayor Smith regained consciousness today and was
able to sit up The physicians said that the mayor had
been badly beaten about the chest In his derum the ma
Igor continuously moaned You shall not take him." The
mayor had comment to make on the riotng After he
rescued by the police the enraged mob burned the
day afternoon still prevails is indicated by the number Of
street fights between negroes and white troops In the
heart of the negro district troops fired by the
negroes They returned the fire. No one was injured
The officials fearful that roting large scale
will break out today Forty negro prisoners trans
ferred to the jail at Lincoln, Neb.
JUDGE GARY TO BE QUESTIONED
WASHINGTON. Sept 3O-HODe that settlement Of the