The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-11-17

Aooosa0oS OF Foe1e AtvScks0 women oed
ch,ldr.n buffer two aisa.s In the
W"ods-s"n Of TIA r faces Are sssl
Hiding out-Oes n.rs vIctim .s -. H.
os-sts Race C"nsIict 1. Ovss-P.o CO.
tion Will be Given to white s.A Black.
Wilmington Messenger.l
The situation in Wilmington Sat-
urday was one Of absolute quiet.
There WAS no further distur bance rr-
ported from any quarter. The board
OF aldermen yesterday authorized
the mayor ard chief of police 10
swear in . provisional force Of one
hundred police for duty thirty days,
and under this suthori'y . good po-
lice force is being organic. d. Abou,
thirty Of the new men went on duty
last night.
The civil authorities are still being
assisted in pat-ollirg tho city by the
military EN- bracing about 100 men.
Colonel Walker Taylor, Of the Sec
ond regiment, North Carolina State
Guard, is in command and his head
Quarters are at the armory Of the
Wilmington Light Infantry. The
cempanles in service are tho Will
mipgton Light Infantry, Captain T
c. James; Wilmington Division Ma
val Reserves, L,eute nant II. d. Nc
Ilhenny; Klnston Division Naval Re-
serves, Lieutenant w. y. Pollock;
the Maxton Guards, Captain &. b
Patterson, and Sampson Light In
fantry, Captain H. W. Hines. The
armories Of the Wilmington Ligh,
Infantry and Wilmington Division
Naval Reserves are used "a head
quarters. Some of the visiting mill
tary sleep in the annex of the FIRST
Baptist church, aud some of the Kit
st0n reseI YES sre quartered at the re =
idence of Commander George B.
Morton, on North Fourth street, in
Brooklyn.
The most distre ssfu circumstances
IN connection with the riot, 50 far
as the negroes are concerned, re-
suited from the panic among these
people. Women and children and
men fled to the woods by the thou
sands on Thursday and Friday. The
roads were lined with them, some
carrying their bedding on their heads
and whatever effects could be car
ried. 1t was pitiable to see the chill
dren hurrying in fright after their
parents. People who come into the
city from the country reports that
these terror-strickten negroes slept
in the woods Thursday and Friday
nights. They huddled around with
out any protection overhead and
many had nothing but the ground
to sleep upon. Manv fled without
taking a quilt or blanket, so that
most of them had no covering, al
though the weather is yet mild. 1t
is So fficiently cool, however, to cause
suffering, and this added to the fact
that they had little or nothing to eat
made their condition pitiable. 10
their hunger and distress, the people
N the country assisted them as much
as they could. They tried to induce
tho refugees to come back to th+
city, but they would not hear to it !.
The most alarming reports went ou'
20 them about the slaughter of ne
groes IN the city, and IN fact, the
telegraph carried out tho most wildly
exaggerated messages. Some of the
negroes are coming back to the city
and report their experience as aw-
tul. They say that if they had
known the whites would have pro
tected them with their guns they
would not have taken to the woods.
The fact is all negro men, women
and children who came into the CEN
ire of the city were given protection.
The whites armed to protect their
homes and maintain order and no,
shoot unoffsnding negroes. A great
many negroes are still In the country
and crowds are biviouced along the
railroads, so We are informed by
railroad men.
Assistant Chief Of Police M. F.
81. Gouverneur took squad Of po-
lice into the woods yesterday and
found large numbers of negroes who
were afraid to return to their homes.
He assured them that as long as
they behaved themselves and obeyed
the laws, they would be protected.
He told them to go to their homes
and they did so.