Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-03 | Page 7 | Negroes Die in Election Fight

mm oi in ELECTION FIGHT Florida Mob Burns Five in Houses and Takes Another An-other From Jail ! ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 3.-Five nv j groes h.i been burned to death aad H another hung to a tree as a result ft a fight which started at the polls Bt Ocose, near here, last night, after else-Hon else-Hon officials had refused to permit Mose Norman, a negro, to vote on tlV-ground tlV-ground that he had failed to pay bj-; ; poll 'ax. H Two white men were shot nnd killed and several others. Including a former police chief, were wounded in ti'' fi-ht which preceded the wholesale j lynching. The negroes burned mt! dr-ath in houses In which they had H congregated and wblcb wore firwfl. TJ IxO n gro killed wa.i taken frqjiu H a jail early this morning by a mob. 3 00