The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-12
THE QUESTION OF
FEDERAL TROOPS

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be Kept on Situation Here. Attorney Gen.
eral Grgys will Probably Investigate condi-
tions Later. Another UnruIy Negro Killed
Yesterday. Turbulent Negroes Removed
from Jail and Sent to Richmond. Others who
Stir up Strife to Follow.
Wilmington, n. -. November H.
Especial Staff Correspondence
mington is still under nartis.l law. III.
five companies Of troops have relieved
the three hundred special police at sun
down. and are tonight patrolling the city.
Hardly a negro can be seen on the
streets and very few white people are.
away from their homes. This is in ac-
cordance with proclamation issued this
afternoon by Mayor Waddell.
All citizens except the special police
force have agreed to lay down their
arms tonight. preserve the peace and
do all in their power to aid the city gov
ernment in restoring order.
Rioting so far as the negroes is con
cefutu Is dt I'LL tut, dIu io Aoi thNA 'A"'
Bile fro that quarter is expected.
Fusionists have worn Radical rule III
New Hanover county They have reapea
violence and bloodshed, just exactly
what the awful harvest has been in this
no one can say tonight Perhaps it will
never be known The best authorities
fix the number of dead at six, and num-
Der of wounded at ten. This, however.
is but an estate. Six dead bodies have
been found and identified. Seven wound
ed negroes and two white men have
been taken to the city hospital. The deaa
all of whom are negroes are, so far
as known as follows: William Mazona
John l.. Gregory. Chas. Lindsey, John
Townsell, Josh Halsey. Daniel Wright
is the negro who shot William III. Mayo
a white man. \ crowd followed Wright
home after he shot Mayo and put thir-
teen bullets in him. Despite his wounds
he lied in the city hospital until seven
o'clock this morning. Carter Peaman
was one of the first negro leaders ar
rested and put in jail On account of
some services Peaman had rendered
white people here in the past, he was
last night given his liberty on condition
he would leave the city. He went TO
South Carolina.
In addition to those above named there
are said to be some three or four more
who are known to have been shot down
at various places in the city Thursday
but who are unaccounted for in the list
OF either killed or wounded. 1t is gene:-
ally believed here that the list of fatali-
ties will reach a dozen, perhaps, or
more. The wounded negroes now i'll
aI Tohn y Davis cbnt
in back and kidneys; John Daw, shot in
two places: George Miller, shot in two
places: Geo. Henry Davis. shot in three
places; Alfred White. William Lindsay,
Samuel M. Farland. The last three were
admitted to the hospital to-day. they
are not seriously wounded. The TWO
Davis are probably fatally wounded.
Daw. and Miller are badly but not Sc
riously wounded. No white men was
killed, though it is not certain that Wli-
liam Mayo, who was shot through the
lung, will recover. Only two others,
George Piner and \. b. Chadwick, were
wounded. Their hurts are slight. Piner
hasa flesh wound in the abdomen and
Chadwick's hurt is in the the right arm.
Since the killing of a negro near the
railroad early this morning by n sol
dier there has been no shooting here to-
day. Work of another and much needed
kind has been going on. People of the
city have been ridding themselves of
the leaders who are responsible for the
misrule of the past few years. and the
boodshed of Thursday.
The good work began last night with
G.. u. French, Il white carpet-bagger
He was waited on at his room at the
Orion HouSn hy a committee escort cd
TO the train by squad Of militia with