Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-11
A DAY OF BLOODSHED,.
Collision Of the Races at
Wilmington NJ G.
WHITE MEN TRIUMPHANT,
7sa RiOtins Of the Blacks Put Down
With Iron Hand.
NEW MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
Ten Negroes Killed, Twenty-Five
wounded. Eleven Jailed-Thrce
whites Representative
Of Law in Full Possession Of City.
, NEW MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
Ten Negroes Killed, Twenty-Fiv,
whites wounded-Reprcscntative
Of Law in Full Possession of City.

WILMINGTON. n. c.. November 10
fsrccial)-This has been a turbulent day
indeed. in Wilmington. Face war and
revolution have held high carnival. Early
this morning a body OF fully 1000 repre-
sentative white men destroyed the Office,
mIding and plant of the negro daily,
the Record. and would have lynched the
negro editor. who published an article
6efaming the ladies of North Caro-
Ina. had it not been that the fell
low had previously left the city. a few
hours later a fight took place between
white guards, by whom every block in
habited by white people was being pa
trolled. and a mob Of several hundred
negroes. and pandemanium reigned. The
Mayor. s. p Wright; Chief-of-Polce J.
a. Melton. and the Board of Aldermen,
fusion-negro regime, became terrorized
and resigned. Under the direction OF
citizens committee successors were elect
cd. so that now eX-COngressman A. NJ.
Waddell is Mayor; Edgar G. Parmelee.
Chief Of Police. and a new Board OF Al
Germen has assumed the reins Of gov
ernment. Peace and order have been re
stored. and 800 special policemen, many
mounted and on bicycles, are patrolling
the streets. About 600 armed citizens and
military from Fayetteville, Kinston'
Goldsboro', and elsewhere are here 10
help maintain order.
The process of change OF municipal
government was as follows: As each Did
alderman vacated his position the rest
elected a successor. named by the Ciu-
zens' Committee. until the entire board
was changed legally. The new board is
composed Of conservative Democratic
citizens and elected the new Mayor and
Chief Of Police according TO law.
The new government will devote its at
,ention TO restraining recklessness among
the whites. as well as keeping down law
lessness among the negroes. Further
trouble of a general or serious nature Is
not expected.
THE COLUMN MOVES.
The committee of twenty-five men, rep
resenting the mass-meeting OF white cillc
gtns ina the execution of the PROVISIONS Vi
the resolutions adopted yesterday, ue-
manding the departure OF Editor Many
frou, the city and the removal of the Re-
cord nl9ut. were to have received a deh-
mite answer TO their demands from repre-
f.7t7tive negroes at 7;30 A. NJ. to-day.
chairman A. NJ Wadden was TO report
the answer 10 the white citizens III Iroi'I
of the wilmington Light-lnfantry AT
1norv AT S o'clock. At the appointed nouf
more than five hundred determined WhlIe
riize1s consisting of merchants, lawyers
rr.sfhers doctors. etc, well armed with
guns and revolVers, gathered at lhe Al.
morv. and Colonel Waddell reported that
be had received no answer from the ne
eroes. The crowd waited az the ArhoIy
uptu almost 9 o'clock. hoping that an
answer complying with the demanus
would be received. but none came me
mon then formed in line, four abreast,
and started on the march so the Record
office i'm a thickly populated ns,Io SET
Element. As the long column or arhSu
men approached the vicinity great croWuS
Of negroes-men, women, ana chllureh-
were fleeing this way and tSat, IN a per-
feet frenzy. and very soon scarceS ohe
negro was in sight anywhere
THE PLANT WRECKED.
when the column reached the RECORD
buldinr. a two-story frame structure, lhe
men were halted, and several advanced 10
the door. II was locked. few blows
Yorced II open. and about twenty cltizehs
entered. and within very few minutes
the whole plant was wrecked, and the
v,reckage pitched into the street The
,rirdoyys Of the house were broken out.
A. tho numerous fragments were tossed
,rfo the streets and the people reoog-
nized what they were, eNultant SHOUTS
went up. Yet with II an. there was a
vetnarkable demonstration OF coolness ana
5.t.rr,fnatiOn Ii was when long sign
..Tte record Publishing Company" was
-trov,,, into the street that the greatest
,,,huret of cheers went up. beaver
b@t yvas thrown out and quickly torn IN
,i.cee os was a life bust crayon likeness
OF the negro editor, Many
When the wrecking was about com
plcte IL became evident th1t c"v "uHN
inc was ON FIRE Smoke was rising out ol
3D.. urrar windows. and there were shouts
81 irdignatlon and commands To eNtih-
p7,ien tho danes But the fire spread
quickly SO that the fire department haa
10 be called out AS the engines ana
hose reels dashed upon the scene, seVerdi
rounds were fred by the men who were
lined for more than two squares el'her
way. The department quickly had the
fire under control, but not before lhe
building was a total wreck. and prevented
the spread Of the flames 10 adjacent puliu-
ilgs Conservative men very much re-
gret the fire. not only because IL was en-
tlrely unnecessary. but because 1t en-
daneered a great deal OF other property.
Close on one side Of the building was 81.
Stephens church, the largest and hand
soonest negro church I'm the city. on
the other side were only three or four
small cottages. Joined close together be-
tween 1t and the burning building is
Ruth Hall, a large and well-equpped hall,
owned and used by negroes Happily not
q single one Of the adjacent buildings was
injured As soon as it was apparent that
the fire was under control the people left
the scene and dispersed through the city.
many OF them going on guard duty on
their various blocks.
PANIC AMONG NEGROES.
An was quiet until wild rumors. with
no foundation I'm fact. were carried TO
the negroes, more than 800 at work I'm the
Big cotton compress. They were told
that their homes were being burned. etc
and they rushed peli-mell from their work
However by the heroic efforts Of Messrs
James and w. III. Sprunt, members OF the
firm Of Alexander Sprunt * Co, the great
majority were stopped, and finally so con-