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Show v mm verbs m mm mm Troops Hurried to Scene and Order Is Restored, but Not Until More Than One Hundred Negroes Are Driven Out; No Apprehension of further Trouble. MNGFIELD. O., Feb. J8.-VThe ex-'t'. ex-'t'. ment1 following last night's riot tfbldI with the dawn, and the city la siijoylng Its ordinary quiet this morning. , ... . , , The district kiyiwn as the "Jungles" s In charge of the militia under command com-mand of MaJ. Horace Kelfer. No lives vere lost In the riot. The result of the mob's work was the ' destruction of six negro bouses, one raloon and tht damaging of several others.' . The. casualties are the Injuring of Sergeant of Police Creger, who was hit ,with a rock. His Injury is not sarious. . A young man named Belts Is also injured,- though ' not seriously. No further troubla Is exsected. Saloons Kept. Closed. ...... . . . and marched to the 'Vungles,' a locality local-ity Inhabited by colored people, with the announced purpose of burning that section. The rnob soon reached the "Jungles" and battered one house to pieces with stones and posts used as battering rams. At 11 o'clock members of the mob broke through a cordon of police and set fire to a bouse in the "Jungles," wttlch was quickly burned down. Sergt Creger, who had charge of the squad of police, was hit on the head with a brick and eriously wounded. Just as the troops arrived one more building was fired and no efforts were made to save It The efforts of the police and ' the firemen and the guardsmen guards-men were. directed solely to forcing the rioters back and . saving the property outside of the doomed sauare. . - - As long as the militia Is on the - ground all the saloons In thin city will . be kept closed. They all closed promptly prompt-ly at o'clock last evening by order of the Mayor, and have been so ever since. k Martin Davis, who- was shot nlaht before last by two negroes, whose action ac-tion was the cause of last night's trouble. trou-ble. Is barely alive.- v ; XtcXdiers) ' In Control. -'-' V' . ' 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 anv serious trouble tonight, owing to the fact that the sol-. sol-. dlers are on duty. These officers will return to Columbus. The. Xenla and Urbana companies and two. local companies of the Third regiment of the Ohio National Guard are on duty fh the "Jungles" and at other points where trouble might oc- cur. There are about 200 soldiers here. yA Dayton's soldiers are In Its armory v awaiting an order to move. Unless ? further trouble develops, however, they ' ' will ,not come to this city. . - Blot Scene Patrolled. After midnight the militia patrolled i the "Jungles," where the burning oc-: oc-: curred., and kept the stragglers of the t 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 I -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 v ojn of the most prominent liquor men ' 1 ri the city and head of a brewing com-,i com-,i -. - . . . - -"; ,v , "torfous Dives Destroyed. tte Jungles" is a name given to a district, on East Monroe street where ' notorious dives are located and are fre-. fre-. : quented by negroes. Six or seven of i, these Joints were wiped out last night ! by the mob with a torch. The most infamous in-famous place - was ' literally torn to pieces and burned half . down by the '1 rioters. , This shack will be torn down. Many - negroes - are fleeing from the city. It is estimated that one hundred negroes have left since last night. I Origin of the Trouble. ; , Last night's disturbance grew out of ! a shooting in the railroad yards, ' in : which M. M. Davis, a brakeman, was , perhaps fatally wounded by two ne-groes, ne-groes, Preston Ladd of Bellefontalne , and Edward Dean of this city. Dean and Ladd were taken to Day-, Day-, ton for safe keeping. - . A mob of 1000 men and boys formed Several Minor Bills Passed. ' " WASHINGTON, Feb. 28Before pro- , ceedlng with the army appropriation bill; tcday the House passed several bills of i minor Import hv unanimous consent.' |