The age-herald., 1898-11-11
BLOODY RACE WARS BREAK
 OUT IN THE TWO CAROL|NAS
White Men of the Old North and Palmetto States Arise ii
 Righteous Wrath

burning of the printing offce createo great commotion among the negroes or the town. The rumor spread that the whites were going to burn and murder in the ne- gro quarter This rumor reached the ne- gro employees of a cotton compress, num- bering 300 or 400, who quit work and hung about the streets in manifest terror. Other parties congregated in the negro section and it was in one of these that the first tragedy was enacted. The men were standing at corner and were ordered 10 disperse. They declined and it is claimed fired into the whites.
 Three Negroes Killed A fusilade, which immediately was opened upon them by the squad in which three negroes were killed. Two whites were wounded slightly. One negro ran down the street and passing a residence fired a rifle at William Mayo, white. standing on the veranda, shooting h.m through the left lung The negro was pursued and captured while hiding under a bed. It IS said he confessed to the shooting. He was riddled with shot by his captors ana killed.
 of great excitement. The whites rushed into the street from every direction, the local military company was ordered out anu a battalion of United States naval reserves proceeded to the vicinity of the troupie with A rapid-fire gun. About o'clock some negroes in house fired upon a passing party of white men. The house was sur rounded and four negroes captured ana taken to jail. One negro broke away ana ran, but was shot down and killed before he had proceeded half block. During the afternoon there were affairs or this kind and eight negroes were killed during the various times in the dlsturpeo sections. Their names at this time are un- known. As the news of the riot spread through the state, neighboring cities of fered to send help, ana all such oHers were declined, except in the case or Fayetteville, from which town came about l5O men. As night fell the town was com pletely patrolled and guarded Very few negroes were on tn streets and they were not allowed to congregate anywhere.
 The action of the citizens in organizing a new municipal government IS guarantee of peace and order. It developed later Tn the day that the negro committee sum- moned last night had agreed to use their good offices to have the press removed, wrote that the editor had disappeared and they had no authority in the premises. Their letter to this effect, instead of being delivered to the chairman 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.
 A crowd was formed tonight to take from the jail and lynch two negroes, Thomas Miller and Ira Bryant. who were arrested today, charged with murderous threats, and were regarded as dangerous characters The mayor, Colonel Waddell, promptly prohib- ited the assembling of the crowd at the jail, and he himself headed a guard of twenty-five men with Winchesters to pro- tect the prisoners.
 Another negro was killed tonight at Tenth and Mulberry streets. He was hailed by guard, but refused to halt and continuing to advance, was shot by guard.
 Three companies of-the state militia will arrive during the night from neighboring cities and aid in maintaining order.
 In South Carolina
 Washington, November 1O.-A special to the Post from Greenwood s. C.. says: Five negroes lay dead at Rehoboth all day yes- terday and today along the roadside. An other was killed today and likely four oth- CTS are dead and lost in the woods. One white man was buried, three others lie at the point of death. All this is the out come of an election row.
 Following is a list of the dead and wounded:
 KILLED:
 B. I. Ethridge, white, killed at polls.
 Thomas Tolbert, white, mortaly wounded at the same time
 Wade Hampton Mckinney, Jessie Will Eams Drayton Watts, Lum Jackson, all colored, killed yesterday; Essex Harrison and Ben Collins, colored, killed today.
 WOUNDED:
 Sidney Tobert, white, 15 years old, dam gerously wounded.
 Joohn R. Tolbert, white collector of the port of Charleston and chairman of the re- publican state executive committeer Stuart Miller, white. mortally wounded in head.
 c. Lelng. white, shot in shoulder.
 M. J. Younger, shot in foot.
 Cleve Armstrong. who tried to protect the negroes, shot in the neck.
 In addition to these, two,- and likely four, negroes are reported dead in the woods near where the five bodies lay today.
 The trouble was precipitated on election day when two three hundred negroes at the polls opened a fusilade at the store in which the election was going on. In this fight Ethridge was killed and Tolbert wounded. .4,ss
 ArminE of Negroes
 The second occasion for provocation was that a party hunting the slayers of Eth ridge was fired into and one Miller fatally wounded and Fleming badly hurt. The arming of the negroes at the polls, the kill ing of Ethridge. the firing from ambush all conspired to kindle a flame of passion, and when that will die down 1t is difficult to say Jesse Williams and two others, 1t is said, confessed to taking part in the am- buscade. The incident of today was the killing of Ethrldge Harrison. Down the road came a squad of mounted cavalry men, with Harrison marching ahead, with guns and rifles drawn on him. Fifteen men lined up on the roadside. The negro was put out in the road and told to go toward the pile of dead negroes. He started, there was a ring of rifles and Harrison pitched forward dead. Harrison, 1t is alleged. was a member of the crowd that killed Eth ridge. 4 tSt Parties were out during the day search ing for the negroes who. 1t is said. are leaders in the rioting. The whites are par ticularly incensed against the Tolberts and hold them directly. responsible for the trou- ble. party went to kill Tom Tolbert. but some one prevailed on the hot-heads not to kill a wounded and dying man.
 The Tolbert's ynmoosed John R. Tolbert,. collector of the port at Charleston. and Joe Tolbert left the coun-
 
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