Show NEGROES KILLED BY A MOB ALLDAY MASSACRE FOLLOWS ATTACK AT AT- TACK BY NEGRO UPON WHITE CITIZEN Negro Quarters Set Afire fire by Blood Crazed HM Mob and the thc Occupants Occupant Shot ot by Light of Conflagration or Hung When Caught East St. St t LOUIS LOUIS' Ills Blowing a n day of rIoting g on June 2 the une the poU police polke e gave out a statement at midnight In which they claimed that at nt least negroes had been killed by a mob and that n there imd had been a P property Perty loss of 3 3 as ns a result of the application of the torch The outbreak Is a result of numerous encounters between whites and negroes In this section On several occasions there have hn been clashes and the whites whiles have determined determined- to drive the negroes from this section The present trouble however was begun b by negroes firing upon white citizens find anti as a fi result pitched battles were in progress all nIl day du Monday The national guard of Illinois was sent to t time the le scene and aud no now have the situation well in hand Numerous outright 1 took place Monday night One victim was hanged ll to a telegraph pole near th the cit city hall A large percentage of the fatalities occurred in Inthe the business distrIct district district dis dis- of the the cit The Time torch was used freel freely in the thc effort effort ef of- fort to exterminate the time tion Hon Fire apparatus was sent from St. St Louis but from six td hi eight city blocks were laid lail In ruins The Black Valley the negro segre segregated gated district is a mass of or emb embers rs beneath beneath be be- neath which lie lle the bodies of many dead Flames which swept a block of negro dwellings 11 in in Fifth street spread d to o white residences and stores on Broadway and destroyed more property property property prop prop- erty than the mob ruin Telephone and electric light wires were cut soon after the time wild nights night's work began and the city left in darkness darkness dark dark- ness except in the dozen spots where the he fires raged The authorities were handicapped in hi handling the soldiers and police because communication with the city hall was cut off oIL The shooting was not all on the tha side of the whites Wherever a white whiteman whiteman whiteman man appeared alone he lie was fired upon usually from ambush Hundreds of arrests have been made but ut the police do not pretend that they have any of the ringleaders Many were drowned by being driven into nto the water |