Show SEPARATISTS IN BLOODY BATTLE BUTTLE SEPARATISTS AND LOYAL LOVAL GERMANS GER GER- MANS IN REICH CLASS KILLING MANY Loyal Germans Lynch Herr Leader of Government Opposition During Fighting Bloody Fighting tin ln In Streets Berlin Bloody Bloody J fighting fighting to has brok broken en out between separatists and Gen Con mans loyal loyal- to the retch reIch in Pirmasens ens Bavarian Bavarian palatinate according to dispatches Kerr Herr Schwab separatist leader was lynched by a mob of infuriated loyal Germans Germani D Dispatches received here bere said a total total to to- tal of nine forty-nine were known to be dead The separatists had lost twenty twenty- eight killed and the citizens twenty- twenty one lone Twenty of Schwab's followers were burned to death in the city ha hall 11 The separatists had taken refuge fn rn the building which was stormed by the loyal Germans and set let on fire Maddened mob of infuriated rens ens continued to hunt bunt down separatists separatists separ separ- throughout Pirmasens Wed Wed- Wherever ferreted out the separatists separatists were killed or badly beaten Trouble began late Tuesday when citizens of Pirmasens reinforced by bythe bythe bythe the fire department started a concerted concerted con con- attack upon the separatists Provided with plentiful supplies of ammunition the separatists rallied and fired heavy volleys wounding many of the attackers who were armed armed arm arm- ed with rifles picks shovels shovel and axe ax ax- e es The separatists barricaded themselves them selves in the city hall a grim fort fort- old castle They held off the theatt att attackers until the citizenry heavily reinforced with city guards renewed the attack with vicious energy Firemen flung ladders against the city hall and climbed up in the tho face of separatist fire fighting as they mounted The attackers could make little progress against the almost impregnable position Therefore they set fire to the entire building As the dense smoke clouds cloud settled through the building many of the separatists fled from the trie death trap but twenty remaining in in- tide ilde were bu burned ed to death While the separatist funeral pyre that had been a city hall was It still ill flaming naming the mob now lost to blood bloodlust bloodlust bloodlust lust launched a citywide wide hunt for lor separatists separatists rooting rooting them out of beds and houses to meet sharp punIshment punishment pun pun- or death wherever found Later reports from Pirmasens said Schwab after being beaten almost to death by the mob died in the flames names Evidently the government com- com who fell into the hands ot of the mob during the murderous orgy was man handled fearfully and then driven back into the furnace like city hall where his comrades had taken refuge and were roasting there to todie todie todie die himself The citizens' citizens guard lost three kill kill- ed edh The mob soaked the floors floors' and lower walls wails of the city hall with benzine bentine ben ben- tine zine to start the fire Agonized e for far mercy came cam from the trap trapped ed separatists as the then n flames mes surrounded them to hand-to-hand fighting In the midst of flames |