The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-11-17
CLASH OF THE RACES
IN BOTH CAROLINAS.
NegroNewspaper Office Burned
and Three Blacks Killed
OF inflammation
at Wilmington.

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Columbia, S. G, Nov. 10.-Ac-
cording to latest advices ten lives
have been lost through the race
troubles at Phoenix, s. @, and two
negroes are MORALLY wounded.
The dead reported are: Boze Eth
ridge, white; Columbus Jackson,
Joseph Williams, Drayton Williams
and six other negroes, whose names
can not be learned. Thorn as Tolbert
aud Stuart Miller, both eolorsd will
probably die
The dead negroes whose names
ara given were captured by officers
and taken to Rehobath, Hhsr= they
were shot to death by an a9gry mob
A serious race war is feared
A special from Phoenix says:
Yesterday morning four negroes
were caught in the outskirts OF the
city by posse of determined white
men. The terrified blacks were
closely questioned and their connec-
ton with the killing of Boze Eth
ridge, a white man was estabhs he'd
DOOM ALREADY SEALED.
There was n 0 need to pronounce
verdict. The doom of black men
was already sealed. The four were
led into the town. Ropes were
quickly brought. A few sharp words
of command, gasp, then spiteful
rattle of revolvers and rifles, and the
four bodies swung, stiffening in the
cold light of the dawn.
The news of the lynching spread
quickly, and the already angry
negroes, men and women, gathered
outside the corporation limits to
threaten the town. Rumors of
most alarming nature were afoat,
and white people who had before
been only spectators armed them
selves.
Farmers from the country, loaded
with arms, began to come to the
town. The white men organized
themselves and pickets were station
ed at every corner, while every man
not on watch slept with shotgun or
rife in easy reach.
CRISIS REACHED AT WILMINGTON.
Wilmington, N. O., Nov. 1O-The |
long-expected CLASH between the
whites and negroes has at last oc-
Cured.
At noon since negroes are known
to have been killed and one white
man wounded.
At 8 o'clock this morning 200
armed white men burned the build.
ing occupied by the negro news
paper, The Record, whose articles
during the campaign melted the
wrath of the whites. The building
with the outfit of the newspaper was
destroyed. This summary action
was taken because the negroes failed
to heed the warning of the whites to
romove the plant.
The Record building is situated in
a densely populated negro locality.
When it was fired the negroes aban-
donsd their homes and fled.
Reports of riot aud bloodshed
reacked sevenal hundred negro
laborers, employed at one of the
cotton congresses, who quit work
and started to the scene of the
They were stopped by white men
and compelled to return to work.
The negro editor, Manley. is no,
where to be found, aud the leaders
have advised the whites to shoot
him on sight Business has practi-
cally been abandoned throughout
The city, and the whites are parading
The Streets, armed to the teeth.
The Mayor and the city officials,
'ome of whom are negroes, and all
IF whom hold thsir offices through
he suffrages of the large negro
have fed.
The avenging mob of whites is
ed by ex Congressman Waddell,
mar of great influence, and most
orominenk connections hereabouts.