Show ANGRY CROWD CHASES BLACK MAN TO COVER Negro tro o Strikes l White hl Mon Inn With Club Chub IK Is 11 Forced to do Flee Krom Irom lt INO- INO to What hat threatened threaten d to develop Into a arace arace arace race riot yesterday day afternoon was wa averted cIted n by the thc fleetness of or foot tool of or a n ne negro ro who had struck a white mali mail ove over r the head with a piece of ot scantling scanting on 01 Main street between First an and Second South streets Pursued h bv by a crowd of men nn and boy bov s shouting kill ki him Lynch him th tIm the e negro barely baiely managed to gain tho the In Inside Inside In- In side lle of a negro club near the Grand theater as the mo mob stormed the doors Convinced cd then that time the negro had been spirited away b by friends tho mob brokup brok broke o up Detectives Detective Earl Ripley and Charles Howel tho the latter a a. negro probably had much to do lh preventing preventing- tho tile fleeing feeing negro from suffering at the hands bands of oC the tho crowd The They hold held back the tho angered men menas AS s much as a possible while at the saro same samo time trying to arrest the tho fugitive lint But the negro wa was too fason fast fas on his feet According to witnesses eye eye of ot th the affair the negro and a white man who Is ha said to be a contractor hat had hal words over o mono money monny matters In front o oa oa ot ota f a newspaper office on Main street The white man crossed the street to F Auerbach's department store The negro negro ne no- 1 gro tol followed owed insisting that tho the whiteman white whito man pay him The negro Is said to have become abusive whereupon the white man mai struck him with his fist fist- Thereupon tho the nc negro ro wrenched a n piece of scantling scant scant- ling from the hand of or the white man and struck him over o cr the head Instantly the tho street was wag In an nn up- up roar Newsboys Ne set up a n cr cry Hack drivers and passersby joined In For a moment the negro stood whirlIng whirlIng whirl- whirl Ing log the thc club around his head hend Time The crowd was cowed for a moment then It closed in Seeing that time the lle temper tempel of oC the tho mob boded HI ill f for tor him the thc felo fellow took tool to his lila heels |