The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-16
| TORCH AND BULLETS IN THE SOUTH.
NINE NEGROES KILLED.



There was serious trouble at will
mington, N. c., last Thursday. 1t has
been brewing for a long time between
the whites and blacks. The former de-
tested the latter for the successful
part they We're taking In the city gov
crnmers.
The trouble i'm Wilmington com
menced at $3.50 Thursday morning.
when an armed body of citizens, num-
bering about 400. and led by ex-Repre-
sentative Waddell, chairman of com
mittee of twenty-five appointed for the
purpose, proceeded to the publishing
house of negro newspaper. the
Record, to wreck 1t.
The editor of the paper had publish
cd an article defamatory of white
women, and mass meeting OF citi-
zens ordered his expulsion from the
city within twenty-four hours and the
removal OF his press. The editor was
informed that If no answer was re-
turned the press would be demolished.
No answer was received by the
chairman and. after waiting an hour,
the citizens proceeded in body and
demolished the fixtures of the print
ing office. The building was also fired
and gutted.
The burning of the printing Office
created a great commotion among the
that the whites were going to burn
and murder in the negro quarters. The
negroes were standing on corner and
were ordered to disperse. They de-
clined, and, Ii 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 negro ran
down the street, and passing resi-
dence, fired rife at William Mayo,
white, standing on the veranda, shoot
ing him through the left lung. The
negro was recognized, pursued and
captured while hiding under a bed. He
! was riddled with shot by his captors
and killed. The whites rushed to the
scene from every direction, the local
military company was ordered out and
battalion of United States naval re-
| serves proceeded to the vicinity of the
trouble with rapid-firing gun.
About l o'clock negroes in a house
! fired upon passing party of white
men. The house was surrounded 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 ne
groes were killed during various times
! IN the disturbed sections.
/ 4 crowd was formed Thursday night
to take from the Jail and lynch two
negroes. Thomas Miller and Ira Bry-
| ant, who were arrested charged with
| making threats and were regarded as
| dangerous cases. The mayor. Col.
Waddell, promptly prohibited the as
sembling of the crowd at the Jail, and
he himself headed a guard of % men
with Winchesters to guard the prison
! ers.
| Another negro was hailed by a
| guard but refused to halt and con-
| tinuing to advance was shot and killed.
The city is now in the hands of a
new municipal government. and law
and order is being established. The
board of colored aldermen resigned
one by one. As each alderman vacated
the remainder elected successor,
named by the citizens committee, until
the entire beard was changed legally.
| They resigned i'm response to public
sentiment. The new board Is composed
of conservative Democratic citizens.
Later 1t was learned that the editor
had agreed to remove his paper and
his answer to the committee was en-
trusted to the mails. The letter was
delivered after the office had been de-
| stroyed.
Up to Monday has been no further
clash between the races. The new city
government is exerting every effort
to reassure the negroes so that they
| will resume their labors at the cotton
congresses and shipping wharves. The
mayor has sent negro messengers
through the woods adjacent to the city
to urge hundreds of their race who are
in hiding to return to the city and as
sure them that they can come back tC
the city with perfect safety. Many OF
them. men, women and children, are
reported In a starving condition.
The coroner's jury held an inquest
over one of the negroes killed in the
riot. The verdict was that the Negro
came to his death at the hands of par
ties unknown to the jury. This verdic
will apply to all those killed.
Five negroes lay dead at Rehobeth
S. c., all day Wednesday along tho
roadside. another was killed Thursday
and likely four others are dead ant
lost in the woods. One white man wa,
buried. three others lie at the point o.
death, and more have been wounded
Four heads of families have left tn,
country, and armed troops of country
men are securing the country huntins
other victims. All of this is the out
come of an election row.
The trouble was precipitated on cleo
ton day, when 200 or 800 negroes a
the polls opened fusillade against th'
store in which the voting was goinl
on. In this fight one white man wa,
killed and another wounded.
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