The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-31
were wounded, and 1t is reported that three of
them were instantly killed.

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were wounded, and 1t Is reported thatt three Of
them were instantly killed.
The firing into the cars was kept up for an
hour or more. Report after report resounded
| throughout the city, but the cars were run as
usual About eleven o'clock special car
came down town for physicians, with the re-
port that lady and three children had been
shot while sitting on the stoep of their house
by party Of colored persons who passed In
the vicinity, who fired at them with guns
loaded with buckshot, and thai about the same
street, wounding Mrs. Cohen, gentleman
and TWO children.
In the suburbs number of persons were at
tackled and beaten. Many of the blacks were
armed with muskets, double-barrel shot guns,
pistols, razors and sticks.
Among crowd of young white men an I'M
mediate movement was made to procure
arms. A crowd OF some forty of them, fully
armed, left on the cars as guards, whilst others
remained to patrol the city. a Radical meet
ing was in progress at st. Andrews Hall,
whittier the crowd went. This movement
was made known at the barracks, and police
force was marched 10 St. Andrews Hall to
prevent bloodshed. The meeting was not
harmonious, and the participants were eX-
tremely anxious 10 eVacuate the building.
They commenced going out, when few shots
were fired. The hall was soon cleared, and
the police remained masters of the situation,
and by one o'clock last night there was not
colored man to be seen on the streets.
Acting Mayor Haywood issued proclams-
ton this morning for most stringent measures
10 preserve the peace and the good order OF
the city. Warrants have been issued for the
arrest of the parties Implicated as leaders, and
their examination takes place to day before
H. 8. Wayne, United States commissioner.
The number of The killed and wounded have
not been ascertained up to this time.
The Rioters Wreck a Trnin-A Colored
Fireman the Only Person Hurt
Reinforcements from the Ogeechee
Marching to the City-Intense Excite
ment Prevailing.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEws.l
SAVANNAH, Tuesday, July 30-6 P. N.
The city is terribly excited; yet deter
mination exists to exercise self-restraint and
avoid, as far ss possible, every occasion OF
trouble. There is good reason for believing
that the car plot was formed by small body
of Radical politicians, In and out of the Gus
tomhouse, who have under their control
large band Of negroes.
part of the programme, whereby innocent
lives were to be sacrificed to the purposes Of
the Radical officials, was the throwing OF tie
Augusta train from the track. This was ac-
complished at about three o'clock this morn
ing, some three miles from the city. The pin
fastening the switch was cut by the negroes
with cold-chisel, and the engine and cars
were thrown off. No one was hurt but the
colored fireman, who was seriously bruised.
Warrants were issued to-day by United
States Commissioner Wayne for the arrest of
several citizens charged with being implicated
in the riot. An examination was to have taken
place to-day, but is postponed to Thursday
morning.
No attack has 30 far been made upon the
cars to-day, but 1t is rumcred that the negroes
are organizing and expect heavy reinforce
ments from the Ogeechee. 1t ls thought that
they will then make more general attack to-
night.
Some fswvmembers of the customhouse Ring
denounce the action of the negroes, and cay
that they have always repudiated any violence,
and advised against it. Their declarations are
taken with several grains of allowance.
Five hundred dollars reward Is offered by
the acting mayor for the arrest of the persons
who fred upon and wounded the family of.
B. Cohen.
Trouble Is apprehended at the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad depot, as large number Of
blacks are assembled there.
At the latest accounts the blacks from the
Ogeechee were reported to be marching on the
city In body, and the excitement Is increas-
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