| Show u J o. o ill u mD o u J o u IDOlS is' is il O ob KiHs I S I I I 1 ALIENS ALES SLAIN SLA AND AND- HOlES ES BURNED TOA TO Th A MURDER Troops Called Out When Angry Men Wipe Out Foreign Settlement nt of Town Accused Men Escape a Hundreds Fleeing From Danger SPRINGFIELD Ill Aug 6 Five G.-Five Five hundred more mor illinois militiamen are to be sent to West Frankfort Adjutant General Frank S. S Dickson announced He received received received re re- word e. e early r this hl afternoon ftc oo from from M Major Ww Wilbur Satterfield the troops in ln West Fra Frankfort that the situation is still threatening WEST FRANKFORT Ill TIl Aug 6 With G.-With With the arrival of a company of the Ninth infantry men state troops p today assumed control of the situation here The rioting continued to nearly daybreak At times the mob split up in sections and it was reported that some div divisions ions of the mob drove foreigners into nearby woods What followed could not be learned MARION Ill Aug Seven G. 6 Seven are re dead dea sixty-five sixty are injured the foreign section of West V cst Frankfort a n Franklin county mining town is a mass of glowing b band embers and a mob of controls the municipal l government State militia was expected momentarily to arrive The outbreak occur occurred cd following the finding of the thc mutilated bodies of two boys who had been brutally murdered T The e mob is still in control with the militia last reported reported re re- I ported leaving e n Mt It Vernon fifty miles from West Yest Frank- Frank fort lort at 7 7 o clock o'clock this morning The town is in a state of an an- arch archy An appeal for tor troops was made late last night following following follow tollow- ing hours hour of or mob rule rulo Vive rive companies companies com com- I panle of or state militia were were ere Im r. r ordered to the scene Tho The roads ng to West est Frankfort were crowded with armed men rushing to Join the mob The Tho mob moh began burning the homes of foreigners about 11 o'clock clock la last t night They disarmed dis dig disarmed armed all authorities seized tele tele- graph ant and phone lines lIne and established established established a censorship to prevent news of ot their activities reaching th the outside worl world 1 Foreigners For Fleeing Foreigners in West Vest Fran Frankfort fort and Marlon are rushing out t the towns The Tho mob ordered order ordered d the mayor maor and all aU Italians leave to the town within twenty tour hours One of ot the tho dead was jf r man named I Valler faller a 0 photo photographer er Ho lie was trampled to death s he attempted to obtain pictures of ot the mob In inaction action The injured are crowding the hospitals at Carter and Marion The formed early yester yester- I da day Business men managers manage rs clerks city Joined the ranks Shops an and 1 business houses I wore closed The Tho mob was determined determined deter deter- mined to drive every foreigner orol ner out of at the city States State's Attorney RO Roy 1 Martin of Franklin county count pleaded with the mob to disperse I Torch Is Applied With Its Ils ranks being swelled b by new arrivals arri as ns it moved mo alon along the tho mob stormed the thc foreign settlement settle settle- ment and set fire to the houses of or foreigners torel Every house In Frankfort Frankfort Frank Fronk- fort torl Heights the foreign n settlement settlement settle settle- ment was reported destroyed while many homes of or foreigners in other parts part of ot the city were set on fire tire Youths Murdered The bodies of ot Amel 14 and Tony Hemphill 20 0 O their throats cut bullet wounds in their heads and burled buried in shallow graves ts were found b by squirrel hunters late Tuesday I Tho The youths had been I when it was learned the they were I about aboul to reveal information to the tho police polke Implicating several foreign foreign- I Continued on pu e 2 t ALIENS SLAIN I Continued from rein page pasc 1 ers in West Vest Frankfort with a n series of recent robberies Settino a Syrian was vas arrested late Ine Wednesday In connection conI connection con con- with tho the lIe He I was hurried to the Marion Jail Amob A Amob Amob mob of ot 10 formed in Ve West t Frank Frank- fort fOIt and left lett for Marlon Marion by auto auto- mobile Before Detoro they arrived tho the I prisoner was cyas spirited away by the authorities I I Two other men were arrested I late yesterday in connection with lith tho the crime ct The mob stormed the I I jail ll and demanded th the prisoners When hen authorities refused the mob then demanded that a committee from among them be allowed to question tho the men This was granted Prisoners Sp Spirited Away I I I One of ot the prisoners a chauffeur chauffeur leur told of ot driving and the two boys bos from Crom West Frankfort Frankfort Frank Frank- fort to Ro Royalton last lost Monday He HeI I declared ho did not know that the boys had been The ThOI I committee returned to report to the mob The prisoners were spirited spirited spir spir- out of the Jail and rushed In I automobiles from tho town When Whon th the mob I learned of or themen's the tho thol I mens men's escape the they split and half went t o while the theother theother i I other half halt went to Harrisburg Mob Iob leaders learned they were on the wrong trail and nd returned to Vest West Frankfort I I Th The burning of oC foreigners foreigners' homes started Every road was soon crowded with foreigners at at- tempting to escape esc Many l were I I I I I I carrying household goods Some drove cattle ahead of them Louis father of ot on ont 1 of ot the murdered boys swore wore out a L warrant charging De wit with I Ithe the was waft ar arrested arI ar- ar arrested I rested by the chief of ot police Disclosures at Inquest It was brought out at the in inquest In- In quest l over o tho the bodies of ot the murdered mur- mur dered boys bos that Dese admitted leaving West Vest Frankfort for tor Royalton Royal Royal- ton with the two boys He de declared do- do dared they returned that t evening IOther Other testimony brought out that was suspected of ot complicity comI com corn In the robbery of ot the Valler Valier State bank at Valier Ill was believed to toI have threatened to tell cli the au authorities authorities authorities au- au what he l knew new of ot the cases i 3 Is accused of or In- In young louns- Hemphill to force the Italian Hallan boy to leave West Vest Frankfort Hemphill was evidently I shot first his throat was then cut The bodies were buried burled close to each other In a dry creek bed L- L which Is seldom traveled j |
