AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] KU KLUX OUTBREAK. NEW YORK, April 13. During election rioting at Herrin, in the State of Illinois, the Chief of the Police and also four members of the Ku Klux Ivlan, wore killed. The militia, were called out to suppress the rioting. NEW YORK, April 13. Several machines guns were used, and hundreds of shots were exchanged between a crowd ol Ku Klux Klansmen and one of anti-Klansmen at Herrin. The disorder was the result of an election, at which two Ims loads of aiiti-Lvhuisinen drove- up to a Masonic Hall to vote. Within a minute, they were fighting with the Klansmen who were gathered there. The Klnnsmen made their last stand at a garage, where, however, four ot their number were killed. This garage was the centre of a similar fight in August of 192-1, when seven Klans„meii were killed. NEW YORK, April 13. A later telegram from Herrin, in Illinois, states that six men were shot to death, and another is near death, an the result of a. renewal of the faetimial trouble late on Tuesday in connection with a. primary election. The dead include a brother of a- former Chief of Police, two constables, and three deputy sheriffs. The State troops rushed to tbescene of the rioting. It is likely that the city will bo placed under martial law. The troops are now guarding the homes of two Ku Klux Klan clergymen where the trouble was started. No arrests were reported.