The San Francisco call., 1898-11-11
Tbree White Men Also WouDded During q Day of BIoodsbed
 and TurbuIeDce.
Trouble Precipitoted on Election Day Also Re- suits in the Slaughter of q Dozen
 Negroes at Rebobeth.
Special Dispatch to The call.

1 negroes of the town. The rumor spread that the whites were going to burn and murder in the negro quarter. This rumor reached the negro employees or a cotton compress, numbering 800 or 400. who quit work and hung about the streets in manifest terror. Other par 1 ties congregated in the negro section, and it was in one of these that the first tragedy was enacted The men were standing on a corner and were ordered | to disperse. They declined, and, 1t IS claimed, fired into the whites.
 A fusillade was immediately opened upon them by the whites and three negroes were killed. Two whites were wounded slightly. One neero ran down the street, and, passing a residence. fired a rifle at William Mayo, white, standing on the veranda, shooting him through the left lung. This negro was recognized, pursued and captured while hiding under a bed. It is said he con- fessed to the shooting. He was riddled with shot by his captors and killed.
 In the meantime the town was in a state of great excitement. The whites rushed to the street from every direc- tion, the local militia company was or dered out and a battalion of United States naval reserves proceeded to the vicinity of the trouble with a rapid fire gun.
 About 1 o'clock some negroes in a house fired upon a passing party of white men. The house was surrounded and four negroes captured and take. to the jail. One negro broke away an ran, but was shot down and killed be fore he had proceeded half a block.
 During the afternoon there Were other affairs of this kind and eight ne groes were killed during various times in the disturbed sections. Their names at this time are unknown.
 AS the news of the riot spread through the neighboring cities they of fered to send help but all such offers were declined, except in the case of Fayetteville, from which town came about 150 men. As night fell the town was completely patrolled and guarded. Very few negroes were on the streets and they were not allowed to congre- gate anywhere.
 The action of the citizens in organiz- ing a new municipal government is ex- pected to bring peace and order, and no rioting is expected tonight. It de- veloped later In the day that the negro committee summoned last night had agreed to use their good offices to have the press removed, although the editor had disappeared and they had no au- | thority on the premises. This letter instead of being delivered to the chair man of the committee of twenty-five | in person was put in the mail and did not reach him until three hours after | the expiration of the time limit which had been fixed for the reception of the answer.
 i 4 crowd was formed tonight to take 1 from the jail and lynch two negroes 1 Thomas Miller and Ira Bryant, who were arrested to-day, charged with making threats and were regarded as dangerous characters. The Mayor. Col onel Waddall, promptly prohibited the assembling of the crowd at the jail and he himself headed guard of twenty five men with Winchesters to guard the prisoners.
 Another negro was killed tonight at l Tenth and Mulberry streets. He was hailed by a guard. but refused to halt and was shot by the guard.
 Three companies of the State Militia will arrive during the night from