Show TROOPS' TROOPS ARRIVAL At I QUELLS RAGE WAR Triple Lynching at Springfield r. r y I Followed by Arming of Whites and Blacks SERIOUS CLASH IS AVERTED SIn State Ie e Militia I Ii Trouble ik II Hut lit termination I kni of if OO NOKI-OO IC Will II hi be h. t Ht Mill He-Mill lIlt of ur Mob Violence I Springfield Mc hl April 15 Two Two v companies of ot militia reached Springfield at 10 loaG 5 o lock this thui evenin even even- j. j in hi Ing and marched directly to the tho county county county coun coun- ty Jail where they Icell their theft sew sew- i Ice Icee cee at the disposal of ot Sheriff horn horn- or Four more morl companies ate are expected ex ex- by mill midnight night With the arI arrival ar ar- rival of or the troops It In I. 11 believed that t further J violence n as au a result of or the 1 hangings and burnings in Sn the public I i last night of or three negroes g who were tal taken cn from the Jail will III be he stopped The Tho negroes were accused t ed ott of oC assaulting while women ls CI at ut l U II n I. I tJi Crowds ng began In the lilt pub pub- i lie lic square junie and Uld the streets leading l vj P from It shortly holl after aI dusk tonight ht At t I l J S o'clock there were WC probably JIt persons In lit the vicinity of oC last hut nights night's violence Th There Ie were no inflammatory i I speeches pc hc or 01 loud discussions Every P. ono IIo to bo 10 waiting for COl some sonic someone l' l one to start mart things thing moving At 10 r 0 o'clock word wOId was passed through th the tho throng that th the militia was due to arrive t within an hour and the crowd gradually dispersed k When lien hen the militia marched through the to the Jail probably not more moie than a tl thousand ud persons PI viewed the spectacle Believing that there there- would be bo no outbreak aJ toil ht tho the crowd crowll broke into little groups groups groups' anti and gradually disappeared until at 11 cluck o'clock but few ew persons ons were on the thc streets No Xu Violence I g perl ril Il- Il IlIs ItIs Is believed that there therl will be no iu in moc ore ric violence as ml lOll long us as the troops troop remain on 11 th the scene cen Had lad the not reached Springfield tonight there thereIn In Is little d doubt but hUl that the liH scenes cenes of or lout lat night would have Inen In- In en cant cent in comparison to tu what flitt might have ha occurred before e morning 1 Several tIl Ii hundred ii II negroes oe ga gathered t herod In the of the eft city to tot to- to t night hl man many of whom were armed almet and anti I It t II H waR wan yn thought that flint they thoy were only dully I for 01 t. t ami pillaging Iii lu hi rr t yar ell city elt ij lJ UH no fliP mM ro leIO for ft luo seIf elf i Hun H- H Fhe un Tin ThiS Ia u 1 ht organization on fin finI ih ihl the I h l l a at t ut of both v r and ami whiten H Is p. p probably p JOn etl responsible tot for u a luka t ending end end- 1 r 4 II ing IIo o of the tite I a day JI has hu a population i. i lation of or ot or which possibly v- v 1 1 It colored Irl e C Negroes lIIl Ironi lH City 13 j S While It U Is IlC believed that hut for the pi 1 em nt a serious vac aCt war ar will lJ be U averted It II IK is rr freely ely 1 predicted 11 that i ait nights night's hanging Is hi but the bt beginning be be- t 4 ginning and antl that the negro 1 population will be driven en from the elt city a as has been th the case in hi neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring towns town Three years yearn lal ago lh the negroes nt driven thI from flom Monett Pierce City and nud Aurora UlOra and anti at present there ther IK Is not a colored person in iii an any of the three towns town Most of the refugees cameto came 1 to Springfield and smarting over ovel their f expulsion from flom neighboring towns have committed no end o of tI lulls 0 JUl The assault on OH Miss Mabel Edwards Friday night Is but one of the man inan'S many inan S that Springfield persons have experienced from Crom lt negro population population lation luring during the past few Cew mouths months t The race feeling has ha been growing stronger every day and und nIt although hough tho th i present ma may see tiel no nu further dl disturbances disturb disturb- ances alices there thero is 15 little JULIe doubt but that eventually and at ut no very distant day the negroes will wilt be bc driven front from Springfield for rol good S I tI Sl lIt lil at ut The rite dawn of Easter revealed a S ghastly sight to the UIl people of the city r t In the center of or the public square at atthe S f the feet of or the tue statue of the Goddess Jr r of Liberty were the charred challed remains 5 5 of or what whale a 0 few hou hours previously had 1 three human beings The bodies hard hardly I dt dis- dis I of ot the lie three negroes were el hAhle in the mo mass of ashes left lete by the fierce fires that had been kindled un under tw and about them Nothing Noth Noth- oth- oth ing lug but the trunks of the bodies reS re Ie The arms arm legs and heads S hud disappeared 1 i- i S With the dawn of daL day morbid peo- peo pie jc began to lo gather lo to view the th work o'clock this morn morn- of or the thc mob By Dy 9 tJ lug Ing there hoVe were hundreds of persons el ons onson on Ott the square quare Well dressed women nn and children pushed through the crowds for foi Ol i a sight Ight of or what they rhey dreaded dread dread- ed but yet yot were anxious Li to see sel The lh I he Charred chmIl ashes were welt kicked d u. u aside b by alike and frequently and women l of or exultation would be heard a n cry Iy tS button bullon or son V at ot the finding of ot a t the clothing of one of or junket from the victims that coul be preserved t. The TIO tenter l' l of ot one ha ts a n. tl I n a man who had the tho lie skull was J i Sf group of one ono of or tho the victims He lIt refused 7 of r many Haltering offers for tor It Its IO posses posses- the theT before nearly noon t slon It was what was as left heft of or orV V gathered up T f I coroner to V the bodies and amI had them theft conveyed con Wit l to await awall f undertaking O r. r an fr r the result rosult of or tomorrows L o b by lW the coroners coroner's jury jun |