Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-11
BLOODY RIOTS.
Race War on in North
and South Carolina.
Nine Negroes Killed and Three Whites
Wounded at Wilmington.
And Many Are Dead and Wounded in South
Carolina Places.


roes were killed and three white men
wounded during the day, one Of them.
VIM. Mayo, seriously. The city is in
the hands of new municipal govern
ment, tonight, and law and order are
being established. This after the board
of aldermen had resigned one by one.
AS each alderman vacated the re-
| manned elected a successor named by
the citizens committee, until the entire
board was legally changed. They re-
| signed in response to public sentiment
The new board is composed of conser-
vative Democratic citizens.
| The mayor and chief of police then
resigned and the new board elected
| their successors, according to law One
| representative, Waddell was elected
mayor and l.. q. Parmalee chief of po-
| lice. The first act of the new govern
ment was to swear in $50 special po-
| licemen, chosen from the ranks of re-
putable white citizens. They are vest
ed with all the authority of the law
and will take charge of the city.
The trouble in Wilmington, today,
| commenced at $50 O'Clock, this morn
| ing, when an armed body of citizens,
numbering about 400, and led by ex-
| Representative Waddel. chairman of
a committee of rs appointed for the
| purpose, proceeded to the publishing
house of negro newspaper, The
Record, to wreck it. The editor of this
| paper had published an article defama-
/ tory of white women and a mass meet
ing of citizens, yesterday ordered his
expulsion from the city within "a hours
and the removal of his press. Fifteen
leading negroes were called in by the
committee of %, last night, and di-
rected to notify the chairman, by $50
o'clock this morning, whether they
would agree to the removal of the
press. They were informed that il no
answer was returned the press would
be demolished.
No answer was received by the chair
man, this morning, and after waiting
an hour the citizens proceeded in
body and demolished the fixtures of the
printing office. The building was also
fired and Quilted. The burning of the
printing office created a great commo-
ton among the negroes of the town.
The rumor spread that the whites
We're going to burn and murder in the
negro quarter This rumor reached
the negro employees of cotton COM
press, numbering 300 or AGO. who quit
work and hung about the streets in
manifest terror. Oother parties con-
gregated in the negro section and 1t
was in one of these that the first
tragedy was enacted.
The men We're standing on a corner and
were ordered to dispense. They declined
and, it is claimed, fired into the whites
a fuSilala in,madiat al opanad ,I,o,,
them by the whites and three negroes
We're killed. Two whites were slightly
wounded. One negro ran down the street
and passing residence fired rifle at
William Mayo, white, standing on the
veranda, shooting him through the left
lung. This negro was recognized, pur-
sued and captured while hiding under a
bed. He was riddled with shot by his
captors and killed
In the meantime the town was in a
state of excitement. The whites rushed
to the scene from every direction, the
local military company was ordered out
and a battalion of United States naval
reserves proceeded to the vicinity of the
trouble with a rapid-fire gun.
About / o'clock, some negroes in
house fired upon passing party of white
men. The house was surrounded and
four negroes We're captured and taken TO
the jail. One negro broke away and ram
but was shot down and killed before he
had proceeded half a block During the
afternoon, there We're other affairs of this |
kind and eight negroes We're killed at va
rious times in the disturbed sections.
AS the news of the riot spread through |
the neghboring cities. they offered to
send help. All such offers We're declined, |
except in the case of Fayetteville from
which town came about $50 men. AS |
night fell the town was completely |
patrolled and guarded. Very few negroes |
were on the street, and they were not |
allowed to congregate anywhere. The |
action of the citizens in organizing new |
municipal government is expected TO |
bring peace and order and no riosing is
expected, tonight.
Representative WTaddell chairman |
of the committee of %, received, at noon |
today the following letter:
I'VE, the colored citizens to whom was |
referred the matter of expulsion from
this community of the person and press /
of A. l.. Manly, beg most respectfully 10
say that we are in no wise responsible |
for, nor in any manner condone the OBJ
noXious article that called forth your ac-
lions. Neither are we authorized to act |
for him in this matter, but in the inter-
ests of peace we will most willingly use
our influence to have your wishes carried
out. Very respectfully.
The Committee of Colored Citizens"
This answer, instead of being delivered |
in person to Mr.. Waddeli, at 7.30 this
morning, as required, was placed in the
mail and did not reach him until after
the printing office had been destroyed
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 making
threats, and were regarded as dangerous
cases. The mayor, Colonel Waddell, !
prohibited the assembling of
crowd at the Jail, and he himself headed
a guard of Is men with Winchesters to
guard THE prisoners.
Another negro was killed, tonight, at
Tenth and Mulberry streets. lie was
hailed by guard but refused to halt,
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