Iron County register., 1898-11-17
Slaughter Of THEHACkS
The Race War Again Breaks Out
With Virulence at the
South.
EIGHT NEGROES SHOT AND KILLED.
The Municipal Government of Wiimington.
N. c., Forced 60 Surrender by the Wnits
Citizens. Who Thereupon Organized q
New Government-wnere the Trouble
Began.

Citizens, Who Thereupon Organized
New Government-wnere the Trouble
Began.
Wilmington, n. c., Nov. 11.-After q
day of bloodshed and turbulence, VIII
mington has subsided again into COM
parative peacefulness. Eight negroes
were killed and three white men
wounded during yesterday, one Oh
them, William Mayo, seriously.
I'm the Hands NJ New Municipal Gov
ernment.
Now the city is in the hands OF a
new municipal government, and law
and order is being established. Yes
terday afternoon the board of alder
men resigned one by one. AS each al
derman vacated, the remainder elect
ed successor, named by the citizens
committee, until the entire board was
changed legally. They resigned In re-
sponse to public sentiment. The new
board is composed of conservative
democratic citizens.
The mayor and chief of police then
resigned, and the new board elected
their successors, according to law.
Ex-Representative Waddell was elect
ed mayor and +. G. Parmelee chief OF
police.
Special Police Sworn In.
The first act of the new govern
ment was to swear in $50 special po-
licemen, chosen from the ranks of rep
utable white citizens. They are vest
ed with all the authority of the land
and will take charge of the city.
The citizens committee will remain
on guard, however, throughout the
town to prevent possible attempts at
incendiarism. The new government
will devote its attention to restraining
recklessness among the whites, as
well as keeping down lawlessness
among the negroes. Further trouble
of a general or serious nature is not
expected.
The Work was Already Done.
Soon after the meeting Mr.. George
w. Rountree received telegram from
Gov. Russell saying that he would use
all his efforts to influence the mayor
and city council to resign if that would
restore peace.
Mr.. Rountree sent the following re-
ply: Mayor and aldermen resigned.
Two hundred and fifty special police
men sworn in. Law will be main
tanned and peace restored"
The trouble in Wilmington COM
menced at $50 o'clock a. M, when an
armed body of citizens, numbering
about 400, and led by ex-Representa-
tive Waddell, chairman of a committee
of IS appointed for the purpose, pro-
ceeded to the publishing house of a
negro newspaper, the Record, to wreck
it. The editor of this paper had pub
lished an article defamatory of white
women, and a mass-meeting of citi-
zens ordered his expulsion from the
city within "a hours and the removal
of his press.
The Burning of the Printing ONCE Created
Great Commotion.
The burning of the printing Office
created a great commotion among the
negroes of the town. The rumor
spread that the whites were going to
burn and murder in the negro quar-
ter. This rumor reached the employees
of a cotton compress numbering 300 or
400, who quit work and hung about
the streets in manifest terror. Other
parties congregated in the negro Sec
ton. 1t was in one of these that the
first tragedy was enacted. The men
were standing in a crowd and were or
dered to disperse. They declined, and,
it is claimed, fired into the whites.
Three Negroes Shot Dead.
A fusillade was Immediately opened
upon them by the whites and three
negroes were killed. Two whites were
wounded slightly. One negro ran
down the street and passing a resi-
dence fired a rife at William Mayo,
white, standing on the veranda, shoot
ing him through the left lung. This
negro was recognized, pursued and
captured while hiding under a bed. 1t
is said he confessed to the shooting.
He was riddled with shot by his cap
tors and killed.
The Town In State of Excitement.
In the meantime the town was, in a
state of excitement The whites
rushed to the street from every direc-
ton, the local military company was
ordered out and a battalion of United
States naval reserves proceeded to the
vicinity of the. trouble with a rapid
fire gun.
a.
About one o'clock some negroes in a
house fired upon passing party of
white men, The house was surround
ed and four negroes captured and
taken to Jail. One negro broke away
and ran, but was shot down and killed
before he had proceeded half block.
During the afternoon there were other
affairs of this kind, and eight negroes
were killed during various times in
the disturbed districts.
The Horrible Outcome of an Election Row
In South Carolina.
Washington, Nov. ia special to
the Post from Greenville, s. c., yester-
day, said:
Five negroes lay dead at Reheboth
all day along the roadside, another
was killed and likely four others are
dead and lost in the woods. One
white man was buried, three others lie
at the point of death and more have
been wounded. Four heads of fami-
lies have left the country, and armed
troops of countrymen are securing the
country hunting other victims. All of
this is the outcome of an election row.
RoSber and sxurderous Assault,
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 11.-Charlus
w. Young, a corporal in Co. c, Fifth
Missouri volunteers, mustered out
Wednesday, is unconscious and rrol,