The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-02
FRANKLIN FLATS DESERTED.
An Exodus or the White Miners Bepup
Scattering I'm All nirectIonx

franklin, July L-tspecial 1.-The fats ara
deserted by all except one family and an ahso
lutte exodus of the white miners seems tn have
begun. IL began in panic little less than that
oil the terrible Sunday night, due.
however, only to the unreasoning fears
snd wild rumors which have been rife ever
since the disastrous repulse Of the band
OF desperate men who were making last stand
TO preserve the homes where they have lived so
long together. IL was reported among them.
and the report spread like wildnre lust ahont
dusk, that the negroes were about to attack the
white settlement and stampede across the
river began. Women and children in terror ran
right and left, and gathered up their
beda and clothing and moved them 10
the small group OF houses in the
neat gardens on the left bank of the
river. They did not even stop there for nearly
all moved away up the road, some spending the
night In the thick darkness of the forest but the
majority going on over the road or the trail 10
the stone siding or to Palmer, travelling by the
very route which brought in the negro army six
weeks ago
J. $. Palmerlee, the station agent at Palmer.
came over this evening and said that three or
four families of about dozen women and ehIl.
dren had put mp at the hotel al Palmer and
others at the stone quarry, there being about
fifteen families altogether. Many others had
gone away to South Prairie, Carbonate and
other mining towns. Others, however are still
huddled together In the houses across the river
probably three or four families being crowded
into each house, aud the floors being encum.
bered with makeshift beds Very few women
or chiiuren remain in their houses a.
they have been sent away TO other places.
ocross the Palmer or canped i'm the woods The
men, however, all remain and are busted In
removing their goods, in carrying provisions 10
the temporary abiding places OF their families
I'm ha fau -{a4K
the river. -Four men were met on the s,aac
road leading down to the bridge and said thew
we're guarding against negro attack tbouyb
they had no arms that could be seen. When 49,
whether they did not think the militI. wo,IS
protect them. one OF them said, @WhAt car
Shirty-six boys do against COO negroes? II those
men were TO break cut they would swesn IN.
militia away like chat, and we would Ia do.
hnseless against the blacks" Another man
who was evidently suffering from manic. said.
We have moved the women and ebi,a,.,
AWAY for the time. The negroes have been 49,
itusliy acting in an insulting wAy, calling n,
names and shaking their fists ct US Thew b.Ss
been melted 90 this hy others. Word has hssn
brought tn as that the guards have nirkets in
the road aud all around the white setflernsnts
en- the left bank of the river
This ia what caused the panic last night when
al che people began to move their women and
children over 90 Palmer
Captain Foley denies having any guard. across
the river. aud says that no A,iemps has ever been
nsde to place guards below the railroad track.
In the midst OF the excitement growing ONT az
the removal OF the whites across the river Ms
Thomas Akin, who had iust heen removed "a
house crowded with people, rays
birth 90 male child. which died
a few minutes later. The mother 10 dolug
we'll Tho most piatul case 10 that Of old
Mrs Thorhufn, who Is suffering greatly from
her wounds when the general removal acres,
the river began shs was removed 10 = house a
quarter OF mite further from the bridge. walk
ing up with the aid OF osheEs she has bseu in