Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-05-23
NEGROES SHOOT 70 Kill.
Battle Between White Officers and
Men Resisting Arrest in Sub
urb of Atlanta.
FOUR WHITES AND THREE NEGROES DEAD

Building In Which tho Fugitive~
Take Refuge IL Fired md Entire
Block Of Buildings II Rurned-Mi-
litia Called Out to Aid In Capture
of Desperate Men.
Atlanta, Co., May 19.-Four white
men and three negroes are dead and
tire block of buildings burned us the
result of u conflict here Saturday
morning between the police and
blacks. Will Richardson, who is be-
lieved to have been half Indian and
half negro, the owner of a store on
Mcdaniel street in the suburb of
Pittsburg, brought on the trouble by
resisting arrest and detying the otii-
GERS of Fulton county and Atlanta.
DEAD-Ed. Battle baillff of Fulton
| county.
| H. G. Ozburn, q policeman of Fulton
/ county.
Thomas Grant, city policeman
| Edward Crabtree, q city policeman.
VIII Richardson, the negro desperate
who killed these men and who afterward
| met death.
| MiltoH 6lSDy, negro VINO attempted
| to escape from q sewer.
Unknown negro killed in nearby yard
| WOuNDED-W. Albright. d county po-
liceman. struck in the left shoulder.
| E. T. Jackson, q street car man, hit
| by bullet.
George Heard a county policeman.
| wounded in the arm
| Call Officer Spradlin, wounded in the
| thigh.
| Unknown negro Hackman, shot
through the hand.
| wnere E1Ent Took rince.
The fight between the officers and
the negroes occurred in Pittsburg,
negro settlement directly south of
the city limits on Mcdaniel street. 1t
is thickly settled with small negro
| houses. There are out-buildings and
barns and shrubbery over the entire
neighborhood which provided such
shelter that it was possible to es-
cape from house to house and dodge
| between fences without being detect
ed. AS soon as information of the
fight between the negro and Off
GERS reached the city, wagon loads
of policemen with Winchesters were
hurried to the scene OF action and
Gov Gambler ordered out detach-
ment of the state militia.
anerin Appeals Tor Guinness.
The shooting ended with the 500 OF
more shots that were poured into the
body of Milton RISKY, u negro who
sought freedom by way of large
sewer running through the neighbor-
hood. Then came the speech Of
Sheriff helms, of Fulton county, adj
vising calmness ON the part of the
crowd and the efforts of the officers
thereafter were directed towards
controlling the temper of the white
men, who were walking the streets
OF the suburb with guns upon their
shoulders and pistols in their hands,
| Cause of Trouble.
Friday afternoon, while returning to
his home on the Mcpherson road, for
mer policeman S. A. KerliD was way
laid by five negroes with whom he had
had trouble while member of the
force. But for the timely arrival Of a
trolley car, which frightened his as
sailants away, Kerljn would have been
killed. sergeant stationed at Fort
Mcpherson, who heard his cries for
help, ran to the place and found Kerlin
unconscious.
At midnight County Policeman Gold
en- heard that Kerlin's five assailants
were located in house on Mcdaniel
street, and fastened to the city and Sc
cured warrant for their arrest from
Justice Orr. In the battle which fol-
lowed the attempt at daylight to ar
rest the negroes, the above-named Of
ticers and three negroes were killed.
The building where the negroes. had
taken refuge was fired and it spacead
rapidly and soon the entire block of
buildings, composed of nearly all negro
houses, was destroyed. The police
were busy arresting the few negroes
found in the vicinity. Two of them,
Steve Nisbet and Jim Singleton, be-
lieved to be members of Richie rdson's
gang, were arrested.
negroes saved from MOD vlo1ence.
The police had great dificu lty in get
ing out of the crowd of en- ragged peo-
pie with the colored men. A mob of
1900 surged around the pr Etrol wagon
and cried for the life of tn e men under
arrest. The officers, throwing their
meninto the bottom Of th WACO u drew
their reyolvers and giving the drivers
orders to drive as fast, ais Possible.
forced their way through the crowd
and 20 minutes later lodged their urls
oners in safety in the FULTON county
| Jail on Butler street.
Objectionable Orde: r Revoked.