The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-11

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rnn Iiampton and Tilden colorcd club OF
Ward j! mel last cvcnin" at Archer's Hall
I = Jenkins. the Nice-preSidcnt, called the
,r.,.,iu1 10 order. aud speeches were made
"a .Icnkin,. J. W. sawyer. Isaac b. Rivers,
iu.,u>ru> Grant. Strphncv Riley, j. W.
Eoruwcil. and Lawrence Brown. AS there
had been threat thrown ont that the col
o,.6 Radical members OF the Like Oak and
!lunkidorv clubs would break up the meet
i,,., and Kill the coiorcd Democrats 1t was
resolved hy the club TO escort the colored
Democrats 10 their homes. After the meet
iuradjourncd. about quarter past 10 O'Clock,
rn,. line WAS formed and each colorcd DEM
nrra, was placed in the centre OF n half
dozen whites. The line then marched up
King street quietly and without interrupt
lion. until they reached the German
church. opposite the Citadel Green, when
mob ot about $50 negroes, armed
with stavcS clubs. and pistols. came yell.
ing after them. hurrahing for Hayes and
Wheeler. The white men stopped. and
one OF the leaders OF the negro gang, who
lad run up ahead Of his crowd, accompa.
MED hv about dozen, Knocked the flrSt
white man he met in the head with SlunG-
shot. and the crowd Immediately behind
him tired a pistol into the crowd OF whites,
shouting that they would have the colorcd
democrats ont even ii they had 10 Kill every
laan in the crowd TO do it. The whites then
returned the fire. shooting over the heads OF
nj
men took Rivers. Sawyer. jenkins, and
other colored Democrats to the Citadel,
where they were placed under the guard OF
The United States troops. Ina shorter time
,hau it takes 10 tell The story the negro
mob had increased to fully three hundred,
Ill oi whom were yelling and shouting,
and breathing threats Of violence. There
were about forty whites in the crowd. and
these rctrcatcd backwards up King street,
facing the negroes and keeping them of as
we'll aS they could by returning the fire
from the pistols oi the mob. On reaching
the corner Of John street the negro mob
WAS reinforced bv another multitude OF
blacks. who swept out OF John street and
cut OF the retreat Of the whites. 1t was ut
tili> point that the fight became hottest. It
was now
HAND-To-HAND CONTEST,
III which p>tol->hotS exchanged very rap
iily. Only four or five policemen had ar
rived At the scene, and these were OF course
ruwcrlc>> 10 restrain the infuriatcd mob.
Justice Reed: with white man named PlaS-
phoi, then calnc up and called Oh posse ol
citizens. white and black, TO assist him in
quirting The row. But the negroes would
li>.cn 10 nothing. They cried Blood >
md >Wurc they would have it.
Policeman Charles Green (coloreCO at this
time came up, and standing between Judge
Reed and Mr. Pla>phol, did all he could tc
persuade the crowd to disperSe. They re-
fused. answering his words with curses ant
threats. For moment the crowd appeared
~ il Qllicting, but skirmish between ;
white and black man on the outskirts OF th'
crowd soon renewed the general fight. Po
liccnan Green became surrounded, and en-
dcayorcd TO arrest man who had just hre(
of pistol. Pistols were going OIL ever,
moment, and amid the firing policeman
Green fell shot through the abdomen, ant
Mr.. j. N. Buckner (white) was shot through
The abdomen. BY this time the policemen
were reinforced by squads from the upper
and lower guard-houscs, and succeeded II
separating the whites from the blacks.
The wounded men We're taken to the up
per Station-house by detail, and the fight
ing Immediately began again. The white;
hy TINS time numbered only about tfteer
men, large numbers OF them having beer
knocked sen>eleSs with clubs and pallnSs
with which the mob were armed. After s
dc>utory fight Of about fifteen minutes
longer the negroes had complete mastery OF
The field Policeman Green was the only
cOlored man up to that time who was hurt,
and he was shot, it is believed, by one OF the
negro mob who attempted to fire at white
ln;n he was protecting. Several negroes
had been knocked down, and five or six re-
ceivcd bad gashes over the head, but none
were seriously hurt. The negroes then sta.
toned themselves in crowds OF forty and
nifty at each corner along King street, cX-
tending from Calhoun street to the Upper
guard-hou>e, in front Of which stood huge
ana iniurlatcd mob cursing and threatening
10 break in and take out the white men who
mad been placed there for protection.
White Incn on the street were scarce, and
Us soon as one turned q corner or came
along on his way home the crowd in his
immediate vicinity would
GIVE YELL
and 20 for him with brickbats, stones, and
pistol shots. The crowds at the corners
above and below them, hearing the pistol
shots, would close up, and in a few moments
the unfortunate was surrounded by pack
OF over two hundred negroes, who did
everything but kill him. They would
knock him down with brickbatS, and as
soon as he would get up to run they would
hre pistol shots at him and over his head,
while the crowd ahead would rearrest him
and give him another beating.
1t would be impossible, in general riot
nke The one last evening, to attempt to give
"details. White man after white man came
along, totally unconscious OF the impending
danger, and was waylaid and only saved
from death by the interpositlon OF the police.
reporter Of the NeoeS and Courier, as
soon as the news Of the riot reached the
lower wards, was dispatched to the scene,
ana, on reaching the corner Of Calhoun and
Hing streets, beheld surging mob in the
Geighborhood Of Warren street, yelling like
devils and firing perfect fusilade Of pistol
shots. He walked up in the direction ofthe
sfowd, and, on arriving at the scene, found
q mob OF negroes chasing white man, who
Aad hardly a vestige OF clothing upon his
person, and covered with blood from q
dozen wounds. He was knocked down
several times with brickbats or clubs,
ana several pistol shots were fired