Show PIERCE CITY IN N THE L HANDS OF A MOB LOB Burning All Al Negro Houses Inmates Flee Fleeing j lug ing in iii Every Direction Arsenal Bro Bron Bronken Broken ken Into and Arms Stolen i Springfield Mo Aug 20 City Cly where Will Wi Godley Codley and French I Godley Goley time the formers grandfather wore lynch t J lust last night aa no a n result of ot time the murder of Miss Caselle Casello Castle Wilde is 18 today toca In time hands of hundreds of armed men who are Intent on al driving all ni negroes from town All Al negro houses In the tho city are arc Ire being fired Ired by time the whites and otis one negro Pete Ielo Hampton Is said to have hlo been boen cremated In his homo home The Time mob today broke Into the time arsenal of at the lo local local local cal military company anti and Is la now In possession of ot Improved rifles So lb much excitement prevails that t It is almost Impossible to secure a story of at atthe tho the situation over the time wires and cor correspondents correspondents respondents have left lef f fr n r the scene Later Most of at the no have havo loft left Pierce City CI abandoning i their homes home which have hao been blen burned burnedA A report was sent out ost Olt that two ne no negroes groes In addition additon to Godley and amI French were veto lynched Inched early earl carl this morn mornIng mor lug Ing In but this Is denied George Lark a porter on the tho St StLouis StLouIs StLouis Louis nd San Francisco railroad whom whoa before he ho was shot eliot to death charged with being Miss Mies s murderer was arrested in Springfield this morning moring anti and is In jail jai here Lark declares hIl his Innocence und amid says sas the tho theman thoman man who committed the time crime ensue board hoard hoarded boarded ed od with him and amid fled fied fed Bloodhounds which started at the scene scone of at the mur murder murder der went at once to Larks house Eugene Eugeno Harrett Barrett Barret a negro con confessed confessed that a n man named Flavors I who had been boarding 5 is with wih ith Lark Iak WM wu the time real rl culprit Pig Fla vors ur Is IB told saul sid to l l be under arrest at lt TUI Tul m m I T 1 over or time the territory line lne from fr hm hn and Harrett U ii I under arrest arret at it Mount Moult I Vernon ernon J 26 miles from froni Pier Jle e City CIU Flavors will wil iii surely sUII bt be b lynch lynched If lf 1 brought back It I la is nut not b heleve llev d that Harett will wi be b mol molested t J The excitement that attended antI and followed the lynching of the tho o nil all 11 night anti and Ind this morning found tho the r enraged white people popl more determined I than ever to rid the city cly and vicinity of ot the time negroes After Ier stringing young Godley up to R a 1 pole lole oll and simil riddling hll body loil bol with bullets bule I the molt mob mol went sent to the tho it house houte of French kle the time young mans AIS grandfather and shot him to death deaths They then Ihen bombarded Ike Ik Car Carters Carters tars house bouse In which were Pete anti and Hampton all al negroes nOlle Pete Pile I Hampton I a rf I who was 75 7 years eal old seus US i burned to d nth His IR wife wiC and amid Robert hampton p p ru cd through h the time Inma flames s I This The mob mull then 11 marched from place to place liace burning negro and firing Into them The rime n negroes led fled led In nil all 1 di direction tl many mall taking refuge in time the I woods while others oth r are coining coring as us faras far tar farns tarus ns us Springfield to flail find places pla of safety The Time officers oller telephoned to Monett Monet anti Aurora nearby towns for Cor help At 10 thU timi morning moring the city et was vas still I In the thie hands hantle of ot the mob which finally broke Into Inlo the ar arnul of the time City militia company and anI abstracted nil all ni the time state rules rifles to be he found there thore Every iery I er train trin to tl Pierce City Is IA bringing excited confusion crowds that add to the time general The report sent Rent out last night that thata n a boy hoy was shot eliot Is denied today and arid tho the name of ot the man shot eliot to death lo ha given ns os French I Godley Ool Instead of Gene Geno Carter as previously stated ii |