SERIOUS RIOTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 17 August 1908, Page 5

SERIOUS RIOTS.

.LYNCH LAW IN ILLINOIS. JtfdT DOMINATES! A CITY.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.

(Received August 17, 8.52 at-.m) • P NEW YORK, August 16. Sanguinary rioting is in progress at Springfield, Illinois, wherei bodies of armed whiter axo wrecking ajnd burning; til© negro quarter in revenge for assault on a white 1 womam. The Gofernar- is sending the mdlitiai with. Gatlings. Several negroes and whitea haivei beiem killed. ' It seems that hearing of an assault c<n a sleeping woman, whites invaded the negro quarter and clubbed negroe® •with sticks and revolver butte. A drink-enraged mob dominated Springfield throughout tfoei night. Firing at the legs of the crowd restored partial order. Whites from nfidghboring towns are swarming in io assist the racial war ■ •