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Show Herrin Under State Troops Herrin, 111. Willi militiamen again patrolling the streets of Herrin, order prevails after the latest outbreak o klan and antiklan warfare in which four men were killed, including S. Glenn Young, klan liquor raider, and Ora Thomas, deputy sheriff, recognized recogniz-ed outstanding leaders of the two factions. fac-tions. The two others killed in the revolver battle in a Main street cigar shop were Ed Forbes and Homer Warner, both reputed klansmen and companions of Young. Young died from a bullet wound through the he-art, although he was shot also in the right breast. These shots, according accord-ing to reports, came from the two revolvers re-volvers handled by Thomas. When citizens entered the cigar shop a few minutes after an exchange of forty or fifty shots they found Yonn" dead find Warner unconscious. Thomas slumped to the floor with bullet wounds in his body and died on the way to the city hnsnital. Forties lay dead on the sidewalk outside, shot through the ''asp of the skull. Warner died in the hospital about two hours later. |
