MOB VIOLENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 139, 12 May 1930, Page 7

MOB VIOLENCE.

RIOTS IN TEXAS. NEGRO QUARTERS FIRED. NEW YORK, May 10. Despite the aid of National Guardsmen, Texas Rangers were unable to prevent a mob at Sherman, Texas, from burning the igaol in which a negro was held for attacking a white woman. The Rangers repelled the rioters three times with gas bombs, but the mob entered and set fire to the structure. The negro was suffocated in a steel vault, where he was placed for protection. Firemen battled furiously to quench the flames, but the mob slashed the hose lines. Fifteen of the alleged leaders of the mob later cut open the vault with acetylene torches, dragged out the negro, and hung his body tp a tree. They were apprehended by the National Guard. 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 to property and seeking negroes upon whom to wreak revenge, ended their reign of terror only after they had burned three blocks of buildings in lhe negro section early this morning. Heavy rain caused them to disperse. With the coming of davlight 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 uncontrolled mob passions as Sherman during this lynching.