Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, October 01, 1919, SECOND SECTION 8 PAGES, Image 15
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By People
{Associated Press Dispatch.)
Omaha, Neb.,, Sept. 28.?A lynching,
which developed many characteristics
of a race riot, held this city
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terrorized for nine hours today. Mayor
"Saward P. Smith was himself saved
'rom lynching by a policeman, who ft
was reported cut a rope from, about
the mayor's neck while, his comrades
- -flubbed off the mob. At midnight it
was said that the mayor was uncon^cious
in a hospital.
The riot centered about the new
Douglas county court house, valued at
| a million and a half dollars, which
* was set on fire in the efforts to reach
William Brown, a negbo, charged with
P attacking a young white girl a few
(
days ago.
With the flames mounting steadily
from floor to floor. Sheriff Mike Clark
and his deputies fought a grim battle
of hours to save Brown from those
| who clamored for his life', but at 11
| o'clock, with the cries of the 100 or
more prisoners on the ton tloor?the
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; compelled to surrender the prisoner.
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- who was hustled to an electric light
pole and hanged.
The mob spirit began to manifest
I itself during the afternoon, but it was
not until a gun store had been looted
!' that the sheriff considered the situa?i
tion serious. He swore in extra depuf.
ties and also brought in some police
tr in uniform determined that the law
i should take its course, despite the
atrocity of the crime charged against
t the negrc.
By dark the streets, in the vicinity of
i".
the court house were blocked for several
squares. Chief of Police Eber,r'^.
* '
-stein mounted a box and attempted to
? address the crowd but was unable to
make* himself heard and only with
difficulty made his own escape. It was
at this time that the mob began
.breaking windows in the court house
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and shortly afterwards the cry of
""fire" was heard.
Mob Cuts Hose.
r~ Firemen were already on the ground
jag .-but members of the mob, upon whom
they had tur-ned streams of water, had
cut the hose and it was useless. Other
ft* fire companies brought more hose but
it v;as similarly rendered useless.
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French, Chinese,
Spaniards, Egyptia
J? and all manner of pe
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I . world. See the work
i Shove off!
^ynched j
of Omaha, Neb.
| Meanwhile the progress of the j
! flames could to an extent be judged by j
the smoke curling from, the windows. ;
Every available policeman was on the ,
scene by 7 o'clock, but they were im- !
potent in the hands of the thousands!
arrayed against them, and troops at 1
Fort Omaha and Fort Crook were ap- j
pealed for. At 11 o'clock, however, |
the lynching was over and the crowd :
began to disperse before the soldiers
entrained for the city. For hours it
was not known whether Sheriff Clark
k I
and the prisoners were alive or dead.
There was no way to get word in or
out of the building. Some faces, sup- |
J posed to be those of deputies, could
J occasionally be discerned through the
j obscuring smoke at the windows an?
at times the cries of the jail prisoners!
j now imprisoned as well by flame and i
j smoke could be heard above the shouts
j and cries of the mob.
j Sheriff Clark is believed to have surj
rendered Frown only when the threat
'of death to his deputies became too
j menacing. "With the dispersal of the
i
jmol) after tbe jyncmng. hr'hu-h
(able to get water on the flames, which
i it was reported, v.cre checked at the
: fourth floor, one story below the jail.
j During1 the rioting a large number
; of negroes were badly beaten on the
I streets, some of them dangerously ini
jurod. Chief of Police Eberstein was
j himself subjected to physical violence
land narrowly escaped personal injury
f
j when members of the force charged
; the crowd and led him to safety. Thou;
sands of persons congregated in the
j downtown districts, some of them out
i of curiosity, but great numbers showi
ing decided sympathy for the wouldt
be lynchers.
j Fire hose run to the blazing structure
with impunity. The police and
[firemen were entirely at the mercy of
the mob.
Mayor Seriously Hurt.
The mayor tonight was said to be
I 4
j in a critical condition at a hospital, ali
(though his physician declined to say
ljust how seriously he is injured.
| A rope was thrown around his neck
I and he was pulled off the ground twice
j before two police officers succeeded in
| cutting the rope and getting him into
I an automobile and away irom xne
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Japanese,
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^ople. you're bet
the nearest :
/ man of the all the detail
I, See it with where it is i
mol?.
The mayor had gone to the court
house and held a conference with
Sheriff Clark. Emerging from the j
court house, ho met the mob and he- I
gan 10 make an appeal for law and |
order. Somebody shouted "Lynch
him!" and a member of the mob threw
a rope around his neck.
Several men dragged the mayor half
? * I
a block and threw the loose end of
the rope over a trolley pole. Twice
they drew the mayor's hotly irom mc
ground. Each time two jiolicc officers
cut the rop/e.
Following the second attempt the J
officers succeeded in placing the may- ;
!
or into a police car and rushed him i
i to a surgeon's office nearby. The may- i
i or was bleeding from the mouth and
I nose and after a brief examination by '
| physicians was taken to a hospital.
! A corps of physicians began work|
ing over him as soon as he was re|
moved to the hospital. His face and
hotly were badly bruised by being j
dragged by the mob.
After the lynching the firemen were I
for the first time able to get a stream j
on the flames. At the same time ad- '
jditional extension ladders were sent to t
i
!1he third and fourth doors where!
! many of the occupants were standing!
ion window ledges on the one side of
! the building that had not been touched
| by the flames.
i LATER.
< unaha. Sept. 29.?The presence of
; troops in the city, armed with machine
guns, has restored order.
I Physicians announce that Mayor
*
! Smith's condition is satisfactory and
that he will recover.
SOME GOOD FOX RACES.
j Messrs. John and llcbcr Prober,
: Sain Low man and a. crowd of Lexington
fox hunters came down Saturday
'and joined Messrs. P. E. Barron, I.
I P. B. Prickett, Chas. L. Priekott and
L. S. Preher in what they call some
They Oct Action at Once.
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and diseased kidneys and Madder, Mrs.
< >. J. Elis. 505 Sth A v., Sioux Falls,
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trouble: used to have severe pains
! across my back and felt miserable
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and all tired out. but after taking
j'Folcv Kidnev Pills 1 am well." Sold
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They ran a pack of twenty-seven j'
dogs. P. E. P.arron fotn-, I. D. xh i 1
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and Phas. Prickett eleven, and the!1
rest from Lexington. The foxes were j(
plentiful and the running good. All ; '
of the old fox lutnters that have seen j '
manr a pack of dogs run sav that i
they think that this pack was the best i ,
that they have ever seen. Every man ]
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IcKAY, FR1ERS0N & McCANTS, Cei^e
STATE UK SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF LEXINGTON.
By George S. Drafts. Esq.. Probate
Judge.
WHEREAS, Saliie Moore made
suit to me, 10 grant her Letters of Administration
of the Estate of and effects
of Martha Ann Barnett, with
will annexed,
THESE ARE THEREFORE to cite
and admonish all and singular the
kindred and creditors of the sale?
Martha Ann Barnett, deceased, that
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they be and appear, before me, in.
the Court of Probate, to be held at
Lexington. C. H? S. C., on the 2nd of
October, 19It), next after publication
hereof at 11 o'clock in the forenoon,
to show cause, if any they have, why
the said administration should not be
granted.
0IVEX under my Hand, this 17th day
of September. Anno Domini 1919.
GEO. S. DRAFTS (L. S.)
Probate Judge Lexington Co., S. C.
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HN G. ?RIOL?AU. Treasurer
ra! Counsel