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Show NEGROES HIDE OUT TO AVOID MOB VENGEANCE The infirmaries and other places of refuge re-fuge are filled with aged negroes and children. Mayor Bowlus has not only closed the remaining negro saloons, hotel and lodging-houses, which are under the ban of the mob, but has ordered the proprietors in every instance to move out all the intoxicating drinks and In some Instances even the fixtures. Including In-cluding gambling apparatus. Atnoon The mob has at no time shownyny dlspostlon to burn any property ther than that on the levee. The only outbreak np to midnight 00- , curred at 11 o'clock in Short Winter street, a thoroughfare only two square In length and inhabited by whites and blacks. A half dosen resorts, mostly -owned by whites, are located there, and at 11 o'clock flvs shots aimed at a colored col-ored man. were the occasion, of three companies of militia being -dispatched to the scene of the disturbance. By the Urns the militiamen arrived the police had restored order and the colored occupants of several bouses were ordered Indoors. A special grand Jury will sit next Monday morning to investigate the work of the mob and ascertain, if possible, pos-sible, the leaders of Monday nlgnfs mob. which killed Dixon, and also the leaders of the rioters Tuesday night, who burned the negro resorts in East Washington street. SPPJNGFTELD. O- March 10. At 11 o'clock last night the "militia had dispersed dis-persed the crowds in the central part of the city, but it was feared they would form elsewhere for later movements. move-ments. While there are 1500 negroes in this city, none were seen anywhere last night. The body of Dixon, the negro who was lynched, was privately interred here In Ferncliffe cemetery.. The order for saloons to remain closed is being observed, but no attention Is paid to the Mayor's proclamation for the people to keep off the streets. Telegrams are being received by negroes ne-groes from their fellows in other States offering help. The pastor of a colored church in Kansas City wired to a pastor here: "If you want any aid from Kansas City call on ua We are prepared to come to your rescue." When the west end of the levee was cleaned out no white man would work with the moving vans and no white man would accept the goods in storage. The work had to be done by colored men under guard, of the militia mili-tia and most of the goods from the dismantled dis-mantled saloons are plied up In the open yards of colored people. None could be left on the premises of white people, who feared that their own property would be thus endangered. None of the hardware stores are allowed al-lowed to sell weapons or ammunition. |