The age-herald., 1898-11-25
RACE RIOT
 AT ANN|STON White and Black Troops Engage
 in Bloody War. MEMBERS OF THIRD ALABAMA With Murder in Their Hearis Waylaid Arkansas Soldier. BLACK TENDS LIE IN AMBUSH And When While Troop:rs Pass By Shoot Them in Their Tracks.
And When Whi,e Troopers Pass By Shoot Them in Their Tracks.
SPEEDY VENGEANCE DEMANDED
Armories of Local Militaries Broken Into and Every Gun and Cartridge Appropriated-Dead Negroes
 Being Brought In.

Anniston, November 24-(Special.) )-Mem- bers of the Third Alabama, the negro regi- ment with murder in their hearts,, caused the greatest excitement tonight that this town has ever known. Shortly after dark Private Gidhart, of Company B, Second Arkansas. while going toward his regi- mental camp from town, was shot in the head by negro soldier, who also stabbed him in the back Gildhart was taken to- the regimental hospital. A little later a member of the Fourth Kentucky was re- ported to have been shot on Walnut street by negro soldiers, who lay in a gully shoot ing at the white men who passed. Firing was heard fin Liberia, the negro quarter of the city, which is not far from Walnut street, and squad of the provost guard went to investigate.
 As it turned the corner of Fifteenth and Pine streets large crowd of negro sol diers without warning opened fire upon the guards with springhelds, the gun in use in the reg ment The guard returned the fire, but had few cartridges and soon had to retreat. Endorsements and more ammu- hilton were sent for, but when they arrived the negroes had disappeared. The num- Der of negroes in the mob were variously estimated at from fifty to two hundred. In the engagement Sergeant Dodson, Third Tennessee, was shot in the arm and Private Graham, Third Tennessee, received a pain ful but not necessarily dangerous wound in the stomach. If any of the negroes were shot 1t is not known, as no dead or wound ed have as yet been found.
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 Two other members of the provost guard are missing and cannot be found When the news of the trouble became known white soldiers who were in the city gathered around the provost guard headquarters and begged for guns and ammunition, crying like children because their requests could not be granted. Citizens armed themselves and repaired to the scene of the battle. Mayor Flight had the saloons closed.
 Several negro soldiers, one with Spring field, which had just been fired, were ar rested in various parts of the city and locked up, though it was with difficulty that the infuriated white soldiers and citizens were prevented from wreaking summary vengeance upon them. Armories of the two local military companies were broken into and every gun and cartridge appropriated by unknown parties
 General Frank, who is in command of the troops here, came out and was on the streets until a late hour. General Colby, commanding the Second brigade, ordered out two companies each Of the Third Ten nessee and Second Arkansas and brought them to the city for whatever service might be required.
 Secured the City
 They secured the city and carried all sol- diers not on duty back to camp num- Der of Fourth Wisconsin is said to have been shot, but the report cannot be verified. One negro soldier while under arrest was shot in the arm by citizen. After the engagement at Fifteenth and Pine very few negroes, either soldiers or civilians, were to be found on the streets, and it was well. Firing has been heard at intervals in vari- ous parts of the city and rumors were afioat of several crowds of negroes in ambush, but all investigation was fruitless. A negro soldier was dangerously beaten up by some white soldiers on Tenth street this after noon, and this incident is supposed to have caused the riotous actions on the part of the negroes, who are said to have slipped out of the camp through the guard lines.
 Later-One negro soldier has just been brought in, dead and another fatally wounded.