RACIAL EXCESSES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 42, 18 August 1908, Page 7

RACIAL EXCESSES.

GRATUITOUS BRUTALITY OF A MOB.

SOLDIERS IN EVIDENCE. ■JNNOCENT, NEGROES LYNCHED. t By Telegraph.— Tress Association.— Copyright* , LONDON, 17th August. Tho Washington correspondent of The Times describes the gratuitous brutality 'of the mob at Springfield, Illinois, aa surpassing any racial excesses of recent , years. When the mob attempted to lynch two negroes in, gaol, one of whom was -ac- i ucu&ed of an assault on a white woman, I officials took both of them away in a motor-car. The mob, foiled, then wrecked a restaurant belonging to the nowner of^the motor-car. Soldiers joined in the tussle at this stage, and killed two and wounded twenty persons. The mob then rushed the negro -quarter, from which all the negroes had taken refuge in the arsenal or the suburbs. The mob destroyed thair property. Two innocent njegroes, caught by the mob, were lynched. An attempt to reach .the arsenal was frustrated. A brick seriously injured Mt. Claffin, the Prohibition party's candidate for the Presidency. He was struck on the head while shielding a negro. Renter's Springfield correspondent states that cavalry charged the mob. The riots are quelled, but the situation of tho negroes is piteous. Few of them dare to venture into the streets.