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Show FIRE ID PILLAGE FOLLOJJIOOII White Man Shot, Mob Attacks Negro Quarters and Burns Buildings. POLICE OVERWHELMED AND TROOPS RUSHED TO SCENE Firemen, Police and Soldiers Battle Desperately With Drink-Crazed Populace. SPRINGFIELD, O., Feb. 28. The ox-cltement ox-cltement following last night's riot subsided with the dawn, and tho city Is enjoying Its ordinary quiet this morning. Tho district known as the "Jungles" is In charge of the mllltla under command com-mand of MaJ. Horace Keifer. No lives were lost In the riot. The result of the mob's work was the destruction of six necro houses, one saloon and th damaging of several others. The casualties aro the Injuring of Sergeant of Police Creger, who was hit with a rock. Ills Injury Is not serious. A young man named Beltz Is also Injured, In-jured, though not seriously. No further t.-oublu Is exDected. Saloons Kept Closed. As long as the mllltla Is on the ground all the saloons In this oily will be kept closed. They all closed promptly prompt-ly at 9 o'clock last evening by order of the Mayor, and have been so ever since. Martin Davis, who was shot nlcht before last by two negices. whose action ac-tion wag the cause of last night's trouble. trou-ble. Is barely alive. Adjt.-Gen. Hughes and Col. Crltch-fleld Crltch-fleld arrived here this morning and held a conference with Mayor James M. Todd. The Mayor told them that he did not expect nnv serious trouble tonight, owing to the fact that the soldiers sol-diers are on duty. These officers will return to Columbus. The Xenla and Urbana companies and two local companies of the Third resiment of the Ohio National Guard are on duty In the "Jungles" and at other points where trouble might occur. oc-cur. There are about 200 soldiers hero. Dayton s soldiers are in its armory awaiting an order to move. Unless further trouble develops, however, they will not come to this city. Blot Scene Patrolled. After midnight the mllltla patrolled the "JungleB," where the burning occurred, oc-curred, and kept the stragglers of the mob back. The scenes here today were similar to those of two years ago, March 7, when the lynching and riot occurred. But few arrests were made last night. William Nunley was charged with rioting and John L. Coleman, president of the Clark County Liquor league, was placed In Jail for refusing to keen his saloon closed. Coleman Is one of the most prominent liquor men In tha city and head of a brewing com-rany. com-rany. Notorious Dives Destroyed. "The Jungles" Is a name given to a district on East Monroe street where notorious dives are located and arc frequented fre-quented by negToes. Six or seven of these Joints were wiped out last nlghl bv the mob with a torch. The most infamous in-famous place was literally torn to pieces and burned half down by the rioters. Thl6 shack will be torn down. Mffiiy negroes are fleeing from tho city. It Is estimated that one hundred negroes have left since last nlcht. Origin of tho Trouble. Last night's disturbance grew out of a shooting In tho railroad yards, in which M. M. Davis, a brakeman, was perhaps fatally wounded by two negroes, ne-groes, Preston Ladd of Bellefontaine and Edward Dean of this city Dean and Ladd were taken to Dayton Day-ton for safe keeplns. A mob of 1000 men and boys formed and marched to the "Jungles." a locality local-ity Inhabited by colored people, with the announced purpose of burning that eectlon. The mob soon reached the "Jungles" and battered one house to pieces with stones and posts used as battering rams. At 11 o'clock members of tho mob broke through a cordon of police and eel fire to a house in the "Jungles, ' which wos quickly burned down. Scrgt. Creger, who had charge of the squad of police, was hit on the head with a brick and seriously wounded. Just as the troops arrived one more building was fired nnd no efforts were made to save It. The efforts of tho police and the firemen and tho guardsmen guards-men were directed solely to forcing Iho rioters back and saving the property outside of the doomed square. |