Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-14 | Page 11 | Troops Leave Train and Loot near-by Stores

r-THOOPS 1EIE TRAIN AND LOOT i :HM STORES ; New York Militiamen on , Way to the Border Step in Cleveland Long Enough to Cause a Riot. DESTROY WHAT THEY DO NOT CARRY OFF 'Gallant Sixty-ninth' Among Raiders; Many Civilians Obtain ing Commissions as Lieutenants. CLEVELAND, July l.",. Seven hun- droi! militia from eastern stktes, passing pass-ing til rough Cleveland, left the train here this afternoon and raided near-by stores and commission houses, taking food and merchandise and uertroying , what they did not carry away. Riot calls were turned in and squads of police were sent to the scene in police emergency patrols. The soldiers were driven back to 1 he train bv a "W squad of twenty armed men ordered out by Major T. . J. Moynahan, com manding the train. Some of the soldiers sol-diers said they had not eaten in thirty-six thirty-six hours. The troops belonged to the Sixty-ninth, Seventh, Fourteenth, Twenty-third and Twelfth New York infantry in-fantry and the First New York field artillery, all from the metropolis, and Troop G from Utica, X. Y.