The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-27
Race Riots in North Re
suit from Proposition:
to DiSfrdnChiSe.
NEGROES ARMlNG TO
MARCH INTO TOWNS
Whites Preparing for State Of
Siege and Serious Trouble is
Feared -All-Night Battle
Saturday-More Than
Fifteen People AL
ready Injured.

Especial TO Tho Times. .Dlspatch.)
TOWNSEND, DEL, juno 26.---southern
Delaware has been thrown inso state
( OF intense excitement over several race
riots between the whites and the blacks.
Tho negroes have threatened to take pos
session of chain Of towns scattered
along the railroad for fifty miles south,
and unless some radical action is taken
soon there will be nothing to hinder
them from carrying out their threat. In
the melees, which have already taken
been wounded. among whom are two
police officers, who were shot while at
tempting loTuell the negro disturbances
:. The blacks have openly declared that
on next Sunday night they will take pos
session OF the town Of Greenwood, a:
place some forty miles south of here. and
will have revenge for the severe beating
received at the hands Of the town folk
a last Sunday night. In this city, where the
negroes from the surrounding country
are as numerous as the whites. Il not
more 80, serious trouble Is fsared. 3
Town Ballff Clayton N. Howell was
shot in a riot with the negroes hc.e on
Sunday night, and John Parvis q special
officer, was wounded and Deasan tlatol
insensibility. The whole town is N an.
4 uproar, and the people are afraid to ven
Il turc on the streets. fearing that they
may be struck with a stray bullet.
Proposed Disfranchisernent.
The riots have grown out Of talk OF
asking the State Legislature to enact a
disfrarc rchisemcnt Law, which would keep
the negroes who can neither read nor
write from voting. Similar laws have
been enacted lin Maryland and other:
nearby Southern States. and fearing that
they would be dsbarred fr,oi, performing
4tIiis function. they haze " taken IT INTO
their heads TO force the Issue.
Excepting perhaps one family in each
of.the harassed towns, which beside this
include Greenwood, Bridgeyflle and Sea-
4 ford, nll the negroes have been driven
out and the whites are arming them
selves and preparing for q state of siege
Those who have been allowed to remain
are people who have lived In the respec-
tive towns for years. and have always
behaved themselves satisfactorily. NO
others are allowed to return, and as the
negroes are cogniEant Of this fact they
will perhaps not come sngly, but In a
body and well armed.
Albright Riot.
The all-night riot which occurred in this
city last Saturday night was without
exception by far the grayest. Five men
were shot and a number beaten.
When the fighting began Saturday night
shoppers were thrown into a panic. Wo-l
men ran screaming through the city
streets holding their children close 10
their breasts. Men sought tho protec-.
tion Of doorways.S and In less than five
minutes after the fighting begun the
streets. save for the rioters were de-
serted
When Sunday morning broke the streets
OF the city told OF the combat OF the
night before. Still fearing that hostili-
ties might break out afresh, the people
&of the city were afraid to leave their
homes.
To-day tho inhabitants. forming them
selves into an informal vigilance COM
mttes. swore out warrants for the ar
rest of the three negroes. g5s