MOB VIOLENCE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 9

MOB VIOLENCE

LYNCHING IN TEXAS

NEGRO BURNT IN GAOL

WORST CASE FOE YEAES

United Press. Association—By Electric Teleerapb—Copyright NEW YOKE, 9th May. Despite fclio aid of National Guardsmen, Texas Dangers were unable to provont a mob at Sherman, Texas, from burning, tho courthouse and gaol iv. which .a negro was hold for attacking a white woman. The Dangers repelled tho rioters three times with gas bombs, but the mob entered and poured petrol and set fire to tho structure, from which all escaped. The negro was cremated in a steel vault, where he was placed for protection. Firemen battled furiously to quench the flames, but tho mob slashed the hose lines. Governor Moody sent .. a message stating: "Hold them if you can; do not shoot anybody." . Violence broke out anew when one part of a mob of several thousand persons battled with National Guardsmen in Main Square, while another group stormed the gaol, tearing and dynamiting tho walls to ascertain if the negro were burned" as the officers claimed. Two men were shot, and Captain Dunlap, commanding the guardsmen, was badly injured. The negro quarter of the- city has been deserted. Tho authorities fear further trouble there, as the mob is showing uncontrollable and apparently increasing fury. BODY HUNG ON TREE. A further message from Sherman, Texas, stafes that fifteen of the alleged leaders of the mob which early this morning cut open the vault with acetylene torches, dragged out the negro who" had been suffocated there during the courthouse fire, and hung his body to a tree, were apprehended by the National G-uard. Eleven, however, were ' quickly discharged. Officials have decided to request the Governor to put the city under military law. The mob, which for twelve hours rushed through the city doing violence I to property and seeking negroes upon | whom to wreak revenge, ended their rcign_of terror only after they had burned three blocks of buildings in the negro section early, this morning. Heavy rain caused them to disperse. With the coming of daylight they left the city in. the control of,' the! State police and troops. : Not in recent years has an American city lived through such scenes of awful rioting and uncontrollable mob passions as Sherman during this lynching.