The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-12-10
issued: 1917-07-03
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note: ge5+6cpy P Dally News haa the largest â¢iMulatlon of any dally newepaper In Canada In proportion to th* popu- talon ol.- ita hum* town. â¢"'"*» «Â«-*â¢ Th* only paper In the) IntwMr nf â ritlah Columbia oarrylno th* full â¢â¢rvle* of th* Weetem A*ao*l«t*d Preaa over It* own leaeed vrtro. tOfr.^Jhj-,68,. NELSON, B. C, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1917 BOo. PER MONTH IM KILLED IN Rl HfF8 AT EASfST. Big'Majority of Victims Are Negroes MS ON FIRE »>! Urowd is Roused to Fury by Shooting of White â¢ Man (By Daily News Leased Wire,) , BAST ST. LOUIS, 111., July 2.âRace ' rlotB tonight have resulted in great loss of life, estimated at midnight at probably 250, virtually all negroes. Tho torch was applied to tho negro settlement and the district is in flames. About 75 Dead. NEW YORK, July 2.âDespatches to the Associated Press at midnight indicate that the estimates of loss of life in the raco riots in East St, Louis, 111., were somewhat exaggerated. The death list, however, may reach 75, sell cording to the latest estimates' and Jl the property loss, it is believed, will ' roach 18,000.000. The torch has been i applied to four negro settlements in I the city and the glare of tho flames Illuminates tho city and surrounding dilitricts. The rioting is a recrudesence of race troubles that occurred a month ago I following the importation of largo â ' numbers of negroes from the south to work In the East St, Louis packing houses. Tonight's rioting began after a white 1 mtth had been shot by a band of i | Broes. A mob which quickly gathered rl applied the torch to jowb of negro \ dwellings, the flames quickly spreading ' to the edgo of tho business district of ..the City. Attacks on negroes quickly ''followed and fatalities began rapidly to multiply. At 11 o'clock State Attorney Schaumloeffcl estimated that the dead negroes v»tould number 250, Jtrajj reliable reports reaching the As- roolated Prase JiiBt after midnight teem to Indicate that the number of .lead, up to that hour wou…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0388045
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text