Show GOVERNOR Sf SENDS NOS A tNT 0 OF f fI I TROOPS TO CAIRO I r Nov Noy Deneen f who is In Chicago talked on the telo tele telephone phone to Sheriff Frank Frnnk Davis of Alex Alexander Alexander ander count county at Cairo at ii 11 to tonight tonight night and received the tho report that con conditions conditions In the southern Illinois city were so alarming that troops were needed at once to prevent a disastrous outbreak The streets aro filled with people and the they are crazy the tho sheriff re rc ported They are aro storming the jail now and are trying to batter baller down clown the tho thoI I doors I called for volunteers to help suppress the lie rioting and not a soul would help me inc I must have hae troops Governor Deneen who had already been In communication with the state department at Springfield giving or 01 orders ders that all militia companies In southern Illinois be held in readiness to 10 aid the sheriff at Cairo and that ho he would rush furt further ler troops to the scene Governor Deneen immediately Is orders to the tho following slate troops Company D at Captain Galbraith Calbraith Company G at Er Ef CaptaIn Austin Company 1 M Mat at Champaign Captain Smith Com Coat Company pany A at Case Captain Starne Company B at Ne ton Captain Mc Troops Immediately Dispatched L I have hao ordered Com Company pan D from and Compan G at Effing Effingham ham to proceed to Cairo with all pos possible sible speed said after his telephonic communication with Sheriff Davis The other corn com paniCs I have hao ordered to assemble and andall andall all preparations to lie be made for their to Cairo and to go as soon as I got further word from tho Ito sheriff When T I first heard of the lynching and rioting I 1 immediately called Cairo Cairn on the lon telephone and could not get the sheriff I talked to fl a who me that eer everything thing was quiet quiel and that the mob h had dispersed As soon a as I got gol Sheriff Davis on the tho telephone I discovered that I ha hanot had hadnot not been deceived The sheriff ex cx pressed great alarm and told me that the tho mob was wa nt at that minute trying to break Into the tho jail I then ordered the troops In readiness and ancl called th first two companies out ont at once My h first information or of the riot riotIng Ins Ing canto came from my secretary Mrs C Ci i Tinner at Springfield WIle who had re a message asking for troops from Sheriff Davis earlier In the I will stay star u Ill all night and will be here at the Union League club to watch and direct move moo ments of the tho troops The telegram sent by Sheriff Davis to Secretary Thuney was communicated communicated to Governor Deneen who de da an ad address ress here tonight on the tho North side on thc lie foreign missions Governor First Word Springfield III No Nov re following telegram Mob loh tool took prisoner away aay today and executed him I am am unable to preserve order Son Send troops nt at A Davis count shed sherif If Have Hae wired wire Captain Greeny to order out Company K and andreport andreport report to sheriff Green goes to Cairo on first M 1 Tinney I On receipt or of this message which he received at 10 20 tonight Govern Governor I or Deneen wired the state department at Springfield to prepare for the move went ment of troops and to await instructions in case of an emergency lie Ho also put In for Sheriff Davis at Cairo and the police pollee department at Cairo He could got get no connection with the tue telephone at once hut but shortly before 1 talked to the tho I department The Tue policeman reported the I concerning the lynching of James Janies but bitt added that the negro population of the town was quiet In 10 the negro quarter an and lint ho mob In thu Iho streets ichi earlier had toned to storm the tho jail where other negroes were held prisoner had hi report relieved tho governor hut hUl five s latet latel ho received the alarming news direct directly w ly from Sheriff Davis and tool took Imme action to ill the town with troops A Second Appeal for Help At midnight Governor Deneen was appealed to a second time b by Davis after aner the mob had bad dra dragged ged Renn a white man from the I jail Davis declared h conditions were his control aud aIll ho wholesale murder I |