Show f. f u s U f MANY fAD DEAD Rational Guardsmen Beaten y Angry Mob lob Searching for L or Negro Suspected of I i I Murdering White W Woman I t T Tenn n. n Aug 31 After After 7 ie e county jail t night ight by a mob bent on ch ng Maurice Mayes a a. negro ard ar ar- d d early in thc the day in connection ith th th the murder of Mrs Bertie Linda Lindy Lind- Lind f y a race riot of serious proportions oke rolce cut out in Knoxville early today soldIers of the Fourth Tennessee guard gurd turned a machine inn gun a a q crowd Wd of ot armed n negroes groes at Vine id d' d Central avenues after a battle een whites a and d bl blacks in which i negroes es were tilled Four Pour nos nee ne- coa O s fell U under the machine nachine gun fire ire ring was continuing at and it itS pis S 6 impossible to tc tell how many have een en n killed or wounded The known dead arc arc Lieutenant James Tames W W. Payne Payns a a. man enderson son whit whits and md Jim Henson and two unidentified negroes The l-The The more seriously wounded are James Benson Deputy Glowers Clowers Policeman W. W P. P organ Gid Thomas Thom s E. E B. B Hender Render n n Fred Pred Johnson and W. W B B. B Clapp 11 white whit It is known that a 3 Er r. r of negroes were wounded and probably at least several more killed but ut as the rioting continues with such I eat Wat it is impossible to get names or lake ake ke an accurate estimate KNOXVILLE Tenn Teun Aug 31 riven from the county jail which icy eo ey attacked with the int intention of l bt a negro believed behaved to bo ho held here a mob of more than a thousand persons early today went to other sections of the city and rioting soon fter ft r became general Two negroes rare ore killed in the negro district i the mob invaded NOXVILLE LB Tenn Aug 30 1 Despite assurances that the had bad been removed to Chatty Chatt-a. ga nn and an inspection of the jail jaily py y three separate committees of citi- citi tens ns a mob tonight stormed the Knox jail in s search arch of Maurice l P. P ayes a negro ro who had been heen aras ar- ar tet as a n suspect in connection n with he ao of Mrs l Bertie Lindsey ly 1 y toda today I a series of fights fig between tJ dep- dep r r. sh sheriffs riffs police officers and mill f. f and members of the mob in the 1 I corridors corrido aud outside the building eral oral wore Wert wounded Several i jonah were beaten nten but buti t. t i 1 seriously hurt huiL One man Was sas I away ny by friends unconscious i 1 st of t the he window glass in the jail as shot out Jul one olle front window and ando I fro o c mum main door were bat battered in n and 1 oth other othor r exposed win windows were ken Early Eady In n the thc evening It became ap- ap rent rent that tho the deputies and on ou on dut duty uty at the Iho Jail would Mould be un un- lo Lii to cope with tho the situation unc and and- anda a U 11 was pent tent for or troops flOlO the thc Tanne MO national S' S guard gilard ard which holding Us Its ts encampment hero Two were rushed to the jail in iii a n. lor tor true truck Tho The disorder reached Its Ight with their arrival and antl missiles iU aU Kinds 1 hur hurled d u whilo l JI JIt- JIt tta t- t ta nore rc numerous rind ind promiscuous tin ting outside the tho Jail began The Then Ther r lamen n were soon LOOR strengthened thene by arrival of ot a full tuli company and aj It J no possible t to clear r the Jail t dors and the tho yard a rs ra s. s was shot to death In her heras e as sh she was preparing to leap a n. window Her IIer niece who wan wall ping f with her heT was as threatened by w Continued on n Pace IJAc 2 MACHINE GUNS USED I ION ON MOB MANY DEAD Continued from Crom page I 1 negro The Tho two women were J lone alone In tho the house hourc Mayes l who had been arrested ten t as a's ag for tor prowling about a r led by another white family V va wa I I tAken ll Into custody In connection with m th the r murder an hour after aHer the crime WM wes committed lI Ho denied hl his hla guilt guJt but ut r fearing I violence Gate took J-ato J Mayo to Chattanooga later In the da day I II I |