The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-02

from Camp Grant, Illinois, and {
General Wood on Way.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood telegraphed
Mayor Smith from Bismarck. N. D., this
morning that he will arrive in Omaha
at $3.50 Tuesday morning to take per-
.sonal charge of operations. Wood
also said that he has ordered the ad-
'ditional troops from Camp Grant, and
Camp Funston.
That a riot spirit still prevails Is
shown from numerous street fights be-
tween whites and blacks. Troops at
Gath and LAX streets, in the heart
of the negro district were fired On by
negroes just before daybreak this
morning. They returned the fire. No
one was injured.
Sixteen hundred regular troops pa
trolled the streets n machine guns
were placed at strategic points about
the city.
Sixty Casualties.
Latest reports of the rioting estimate
the number Of injured all the way from
.45 to 60. Only two persons were killed,
however. These were Will Brown, ne
gro, who was aiken from the county
Jail and iynched. and q white mar be-
'ieved to be Clarence Clancy, aged %,
of Omaha.
Mayor Is Improving.
The condition shortly s,efore noon to-
day of Mayor Ed p. Smith, whom MEM
bers Of the mob attempted to lynch,
was reported by his physician. Or. E.
c.. Henry, to be somewhat improved.
Mayor Smith, who suffered a bad
wound over his right eye a fractured
nose, and a wound about the neck,
when members of the mob placed a rope
about him and hanged him to a traffic
signal tower, regained consciousness
early today at the hospital to which
He was saved by policemen, who
he had been taken.
cut him down.
Mayor Smiths physician said that
willie his condition was serious he be-
ilieved he would recover.
At police headquarters today it was
stated that they had not yet arrested
the leaders of the riot, but were max
ing every effort to apprehend them.
Riotins Suppressed.
"Rioting in the streets of Omaha
has been suppressed and the stu
alton is in hand" said a proclamation
issued early today by Lieut.. Col. ia
cob w. S. Wuest, commanding Off
eSA ~ 1lSal1 oppCcAAltS W I'LL
citizens to surrender firearms and am
munition to the chief of police or to
the nearest military headquarters.
The proclamation declared that all
what race or color, would be given
full protection as to person and prop
:erty. Carrying of fire rms, the Of
ficer declared, would be looked Upon
las an intention to disregard the law.
Lynch and Burn Negro.
A negro, Will Brown, identified by
Miss Agnes Loebeck, 10, as the a
7who had assaulted her Thursday night,
was lynched and his body burned,
mayor Ed p. Smith was nearly hanged,
the Douglas county courthouse was
burned, on eman, Francis Clancy, 10,
was shot and killed, and sc other per-
sons were wounded in a riot here Sun
day night.
While thousands Of men, women and
children looked on ana cheered, Brown
was taken from the fourth floor of the
burning courthouse after the smoke
had all but overcome Sheriff Clark and
his deputies, and taken to Eighteenth
and Douglas streets, a rope put around
his neck and he vas hanged from a
telephone pole. The mol then riddled
his body with bullets, cut it down and
burned it.
Mayor Defies Mob.
Mayor Smith almost suffered the
same fate when he detied the mob. His
last words, mumbled while almost un-
conscious from the beatings he had
received and with the rope around his
neck. were:
"Iu give my life if necessary, but
Til not surrender the negro. I'm goins
to enforce the law"
Many Shops Looted.
The mob last night broke into pawn
;shops and hardware stores to obtain
fire arms and ammunition. They
.oyerpowered every policeman on the
streets, the police using every effort
to subdue the mob without resorting
to the use of weapons. They were
easily o~verpowered and usually sur
rendered their clubs and guns without
resistance.
The TX set fire to the courthouse
when it was unable to break pas,
Sheriff Clark and his deputies. Some
ont obtained gasoline which was set
on fire on the first floor. Police ex-
'%tinguished this blaze. but the mob
obtained more gasoline and soon flames
were darling from%the first, second and
third floors. Sheriff Clark then took
his prisoner to the roof. Shippers
climbed to the roof of NEARBY build
.ings and fired or the ittie group on
the roof. Wher the flames reached
the fourth floor M fireElen had ar
,riyed, the mob took the firemen's lad
,'ders away from ahcn and climbed to
t1ne root. Clark "a forced to sur