SANGUINARY RIOTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 204, 18 August 1908, Page 2

SANGUINARY RIOTING.

WAK AUAI.NSX inE tILAC'KS. AN KNiiAUiiO itujj, WMCJS KESTokFpAKIIAL OitDEU. Sanguinary" rioU„ V , ~rk ' Au « U8 ; «• fyringUeld, xllinois. ° occurrtll at JioUiw of armed whiten v.-e i , , «?£? -^mL^^a7n;: ,10, ' ,a sL '" di "H £ kiltd? 1 " 1 " egrot ' S aUd ,vl " U '? ' w ™ wen Later details ,f,o w tj, alj " un , . of an assault on a sloeping « o maii" flil thibiTed n ?r' k,d Uile quarter aud reaver ZttT SW ' H WUU BUck9 and « A J! ri ° k ' cni "gcd mob dominated hpnngfleld throughout the „i J »? tiring at thu legs 0 f the crowd the , polico restored partial order Whites from the neighboring towns war SWUl '""" s iu t0 naSist W'e racial

TERRIBLE BRUTALITY.

* RACIAL EXCESSES Oi' RECENT YEARS, A FRENZIED MOB. ENCOUNTER WITH THE .SOLDIERS. TWO INNOCENT BLACKS LYNCHED NEGROES' I'ITEOLS CONDITION Received 17, U. 50 p.m. ri' h London, August 17. ! 1 ".!" v Washington correspondent d< scribes tlio gratuitous brutality , of the mob at SpriaglielU as surpassing any raeia excesses of recent years. When the mob attempted to lynch two negroes ,a gaol, one of whom was nrSf n cr " uo rcferrCll 'n me piewous cable message, the official motored both away. The mob, foiled in tliv-ir plana, then wrecked a restaurant belonging to the owner of the motor. The soldiers, in the tussle at tihig stage, killed two and wounded twenty The mob thereupon rushed the negro quarter. All the negroes had refuged in the arsenal or suburbs. The mob destroyed their property. Two innocent negroes weru caught and lynclhod. An attempt to reach tlie arsenal was frustrated. A brick seriously injured Clafliri, the Prohibition Party's candidate for the Presidency, in the head while shieldiag a rivgro. Router's Springfield correspondent states that the cavalry drnrged the mobs, 'The riots arc quelled, but the situation of the negroes is piteous. Few of them venturu in the streets.