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Description: Chinese Mobbed. Town of Tonapah, Nev., Scene of Brutal Outrage.
Date: September 21 1903Newspaper published in: Aberdeen, WA
Tonapah, Nev., Sept. 18.
A mob of twelve or fifteen men invaded Chinatown at this place last evening and at the point of guns compelled the occupants of a number of houses to dress, and ordered them to leave town at once. A number of Chinamen not complying at once were struck over the head and body and dragged from their habitations and forced to accompany the mob to the outskirts of town and told to take the road for Sodaville. Later on all the Chinese but one returned to town and notified the officers.
The Chinese stated that Ping Ling, an old man, 73 years of age, and the proprietor of a wash house, was one of the victims, and they believed that he had perished on the road. Searching parties were sent out this morning, and they found his body horribly mutilated a short distance from the road, three miles west of town.
The Chinamen were also robbed of several hundred dollars before being sent out of town. Eighteen men, mostly coolies and cooks and waiters, have been arrested and are now in jail. Among the number is F. M. ARUNDEL, president of a labor union.
A meeting of citizens of Tonapah was held today, at which one hundred or more were present, and a committee was appointed to draft resolutions denunciatory of the action of the mob.

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