Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-08-07

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to bring about order.
A number of homes were burned and
q pool hall was wrecked. The mob, at its
height, numbered about 1000 men. For
eigners fled in all directions.
The rioting continued to nearly day
break. At times the mob split up in sec
tions and it was reported that some dlvi-
sions Of the mob drove foreigners into
nearby woods.
The homes of about so foreigners
we're fired and the residents we're club
bed and mauled
The trouble followed the finding of
the bodies of two youths, Tony Hemp
hill. 19. and Ameil Calcaterra, is, in
dry creek bed near Royalton. The
youths had been heard to say they had
knowledge Of the identity of band or
men believed to have committed robber-
les in southern Illinois recently.
Three arrests were made and attempts
by the mob to seize the prisoners We're
frustrated. -,
The mob hastily organized, stormed
the jail demanding the prisoners.
When this was refused they demanded
chat q committee be allowed to talk TO
the prisoners. The authorities granted
thcm this demand and one of the prison
ers a chauffeur, is said TO have declafed
he drove Calcaterra and hempel 10 ROY
alton, Monday, in company with oelIlno
tion with the murder. The committee
tEen withdrew from the Jail and the two
prisoners were hastily removed by the
Later the mob reported to have. dl-
vided and started for nearby towns where
It is believed that Sensls and the otheF
two suspects may have been taken.
M
sngs administered by the MOP, Whlch,
according 70 reports, is driving the
foreign population Of West Frankfort
None Of the dead have been identified,
but il is said two were foreigners ana
the other q photographer from Valler.
Ill., who attempted to take pictures OF
the mob. According to reports, the latter
was kicked to death and his camera de-
molished.
1000 In Mob.
THE riot has been in progress since
early afternoon. after the mob, SAID 70
numbered more than 1000, was frustrated
In attempts TO get hold of three suspects
held in connection with the murder Whlch
authorities believed was committed on
account of information they say tal-
caterra and Hempel had of numerous
robberies committed by an orgahizeo
band in southern Illinois.
The attack of the mob it is reported
10 have centered on the foreign residents.
One Of the suspects under arrest, Settno
de Sesnis, a Sicilian, is said TO have ac-
knowledged taking the boys from West
Frankfort The other two suspects are
unidentified but one is said to have in
formed members Of the mob that he drove
the automobile il which de Seslns and
the two other boys left town.
Searching For Men.
The three suspects have been removed
from West Frankfort to avert chances
of lynching, and it is reported members
De the mob are going through nearb towns
In Illinois in an effort to locate them.
More than 40 persons are said to
have been beaten. After the rioting had
been in progress several hours, someone
set fire to the home Of de Sesnis and at
ter this, according to reports, the firing
of houses became general.
Advices from towns adjacent to west
Frankfort are that the city officials who
wired the state militia. have been given
"a hours to leave.
West Frankfort is IN the southern
Illinois coal region, and has been cut off
from telephone communication for some
time on account of labor trouble and
only meager information was available.