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Show FIVE KILLED IN ILLINOIS DISORDERS 1 3011 FOREIGN BORN RESIDENTS TARGET OF IB Houses Burned and Hotel Wrecked During Night of Bloody Rioting VICTIMS DRIVEN TO WOODS BY GANGSTERS Residents Clubbed and Mauled as They Flee From Burning Burn-ing Buildings SPRINGFIELD, III.. Aug 6 Five hundred more Illinois militiamen mili-tiamen ar to be sent to We6t Fr.inkfort Adjutant General Frank S. Dickson announced. He re ceived word early this morning from Major Wilbur Satterfield, commanding the troops in West Frankfort that the stuation is still threatening. WICST FRANKFORT. 111.. Aug. Following a night 61 noting in which five persons are believed to ha'e been killeii and scores Injurvd. comparative quiet 1 1 restored here today. Approximately Approx-imately f.000 foreigners against horn the rioters dire ted their attack bad left town and this, coupled with the arrival of 150 militiamen of the Ninth Illinois Infantry tended to bring about order. A number of houses were burned and a hotel was wrecked The mob i. its height, numberd about 4,000. Foreigners fled in all directions taking what articles of property they could with them. The noting continued to nearl da -break. At limes the mob split up In sections, and It was reported that some dl lalon of the mob drove foreigners Into nearby woods. What followed could not be learned. The homes of about fifty foreigners wen ;.r. and the residents were clubbed and mauled as they emerged from the burning buildings The troops wers Stationed in sections of the town principally Inhabited by those of foreign birth and instructed to protect the property abandoned by the fugitives. Kmphutlc instructions that all Crowds be dispersed Immediately were, given to tho militiamen. The trouble followed the finding of the bodies of two youths, Tony Hemphill Hemp-hill and Amiel Cekaterra In a dry creek bed near Koyalton. The youths had been heard to say they hud kliowl-l Belffe of the Identity of a band of men believed to have committed a number ( of robberies In southern Illinois re-, rently. Three arrests were made but, mobs seeking tho prisoners were frus- ttated- Following formation of the mob. an ultimatum was served on Muyor Fox and Sheriff Watklns to leave town or else give the rioters free rcLu. A press censorship was established that neivn of the crime would not be given th-outside th-outside world, but that ended with the arrival of troops. oo |