Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1906 — FIERCE RACE RIOT. [ARTICLE]

FIERCE RACE RIOT.

Mob in s-prlnwflcld, 0., Neafrto Quarler Dispersed b> MilHla, A white mob of aeverttr' thoqsarfd pien attacked the negro quarter of Springfield, 0., known ai “the Jungles,’’ Tuesday night and state troops had to Im? called out to quell the rioting. The outbreak was the result of attacks on two white men, Davis and Earl Rtdkins. by Preston Ladd and Edward Dean, negroes. For several hours, until after midnight, the negro section was in a state of terror, the police being powerless. The local militia was called out by the mayor, but was slow to respond. At midnight, however, eighty men assembled at the armory and were sent out to re-enforce the police. The eighty miljtiainen and tbe police, however, were unable to handle the mob, and It was not until the arrival of two companies from Dayton and one from Xenia soon after midnight that the mob could be handled. Then, with the butts of their rifles and without firing a shot the soldiers pushed the mob back both ways In Columbia street, east from Water street and west from Foster street. _! When dawn came quiet had been re-' stored in the negro section, with “the Jungles” still in charge of the militia. Ko lives were lost in the riot. The re« suit of the mob was tbe destruction of six negro houses, One saloon and thedamaging of several others. "The Jungles” is the name given to East Columbia street; where a number of notorious dives frequented by negroes and low whites are located. Six or seven of these joints were wiped out by the mob with the torch. The most infamous place was literally torn to pieces and burned half down by the rioters.