The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-07
TWO KILLED IN
KHAN RIOTS IN.
PENNSYLVANIA
Check-up .Discloses Another
Believed Fatally Wounded,
Others Injured
FOUR ARE ARRESTED
Parade in Darkness Starts
Trouble Which Results
in Fatalities
FOUR ARE ARRESTED

Lilly, Pa, April Two men were
killed, another believed fatally
wounded and score of others were
more or less seriously hurt in riot
ing Saturday night between towns
people and members of the ku
klux Klan, close checkup by state
police and deputy sheriffs disclosed
Sunday.
Four residents of Lilly were being
held by state police upon charges
of rioting, while at Johnstown 25
men, said to be Klansmen, were being
held by Sheriff Logan n. kcliar,
pending an investigation.
Parade in Darkness
The rioting occurred when the
stream from fire hose was turned
upon the Klansmen as they were
boarding a special train for Johns
town, 19 miles west of here, after
having paraded in the darkness
through the town from an adjoining
hill where ceremony attended by
some 600 klansmen had been held.
Firing began Immediately and,
when the special train pulled out 80
minutes later several wounded men
had been taken aboard, while Phillip
r. Conrad and Floyd Paul, both of
Lilly, lay dead on the street. Eleven
of the injured all declared to be
residents of Lilly, were taken to
the Altoona hospital, the most serl-
ously hurt being Frank Marco
whose recovery physicians declared
was doubtful. Three of the injured
taken to the Johnstown hospital were
, said to be Klansmen.
Town Is PatrOlled
Sheriff kellar with force of dep
uty sheriffs and detachment OF
state police patrolled the town yes
terday. Sheriff kellar returned to
Johnstown late in the day, declaring
| the situation was quiet and that ne
| feared no further disorders. Mem
bcrs of the state police remained
| however, to conduct an investigate or
| into the riot. d.
About as pistols were taken from
the special train after it's arrival at
Johnstown, according to Sheriff
kellar, who declared that some were
found upon the men arrested, while
others were in the cars. Many o.
| the klansmen left the train at stop:
between Lilly and Johnstown.
Lights Extinguished
Electric lights in Lilly had been ex
tinguished earlier in the evening ant
as the Klansmen marched down from
Pipers hill where a ceremony hat
been staged with the burning of
cross, the way was lighted by poke
flash lights. Several hundred O
the robed figures had already board
ed the train after haHing passe'
through a line made by the towns
people assembled at the station
when a stream of water from tn
fire hose was suddenly turned upol
them. One of the klansmen was re
ported to have rushed to the group o
young man holding the hose and
wrestling it from their grasp, turnc'
it upon them. A moment later tn
battle in the darkness began.
All but group of about 100 klans
men had boarded the train when tn
firing began. The loading of tn
train continued, as bullets whistle
through .ne air and stones and othc
missiles were hurled from all direc
tions. Three wounded men, said t
be Klansmen from the vicinity o
Johnstown, were among those take
aboard the train, which departed ii
soon as the visiting Klansmen ha
entered the cars:
Train Met By Sheriff
Stops were made at various place:
and when the special arrived a
Johnstown it was met by Sheriff
Kellar and Chief of Police Charlie
Rriney. Those remaining on tn
train were searched and 25 men wit
pistols were aAcsted, according t
Sheriff Kellar. He declared tha
any charge to be made against theI
would be preferred after the inves
tigation Of the riot had been col"
pleted.
There was little evidence yesterda
that fatal rioting had occurred othe
than the bullet perforated window
of general store near the scene q
the trouble. The 1000 inhabitant
were awed by the tragedy and stat
troopers found somber and quie
mining town when they arrived.
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