The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-09-27

Atlanta. TIA, SpcciaI.-A race war
Of alarrnin" proportions began here
Saturday night Through the night
It ragged with varying vigor, and
when morning dawned it found the
downtown streets i'll possession Of
eight companies nf the Fifth Georgia
Infantry. with battery of light ar
tircry u reserve Through the day
little oi Importance has occurred.
The police claimed, with the aid %
the military. To have the situation
under control.
This condition came as the result
Of numerous and repeated assaults
or attempted assaults upon whit.
wtn"n hy negroes. The list OF an
even dozen of such assaults, within
the limits Of Fulton county within
the las, nine weeks. came Saturday
when four attempts at assault were
reported. !'Iaving headlines in the
special edition. III afternoon papers
wrought the pn1uace to high pitch
of excitement. The usual Saturday
night crowds We're largely increased
by mcn and boys who thronged the
downtown streets There was 10
leader and no overt act until late in
the evening.
Atlanta. Ga. rwenty-
four hours have passed since a race
war of no mean proportions began in
Atlanta. In that period at least ten
lives have been sacrificed, and the
number OF injured will be at least 10,
several Of whom cannot recover. 1t
10 O'Clock Sunday night the city was
controlled by the police aided by
nearly Il thousand of the State mill
Tia. Every part OF The town IS pat
rolled by The soldiers and the authori-
ties seem 10 have the situation we'll
in hand. Governor Terrell, who or
dercd seven companies of the State
military service from points outside
of Atlanta To aid the eight local COM
panics, stands ready to declare the
city under martial law, if tle scenes
Of Saturday night are repeated. He
has declared within an hour that he
sees no necessity at present to take
these extreme measures.
Numerous and persistent rumor5
are reaching the city Of negroes al
tackin% white persons and stoning
street care III the suburbs and out
skirts of the city Most Of these re
ports doubtless are false, but several
street ears arriving from their runs
show broken windows, while their
crews are refusing to 90 out.
The larger part Of the military is
concentrated In the downtown dis
trict. Marietta and Decatur streets,
both frequented by negroes, are
crowded with white men. The troops
are marching through these crowds
constantly, trying to enforce the Or
der of the mayor that the streets
shall be cleared. The efforts to clear
the streets, however, so far seem to
be meeting with only fair success.
Very few of the better class of citi-
ZenS who are not called out by neces-
sity are on the streets
Up to Sunday evening more than
20 arrests have been made of mem
'bers of Saturday night s mob, charg-
ing incitement to riot. Five hundred
dollars bond has been required in
each case
No names of prominence are found
on this list.
OF the dead it is impossible to get
the names. Only partial lists have
been prepared and no two Of these
agree.
Explosion Followed Insult.
ri about 10 O'Clock a negro man
showed white woman from the side
walk on Whitehall street, in the CEN
ter Of town. Almost simultaneously
a negro woman made an insulting
remark to a white man on an adioin-
ing street and he administered what
he considered die punishment. From
tnis tl St:.:t the e~"i' x crowd, a4A.-l
had ha,6rQe a uls-a. Ian its work
or drsir7cd"-". Five thousand mer
and he's tlroaoed the downtown
strV IS loobia" for negroes.
\ mass meeting Of representative
citizens, inc:1ding the governor of thC
State, the mavcr of the city and
numbers of leading business men. wa.
held Sunday evening. and the actior
Of the mob was denounced in vieor
ouS terms.