The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-24
AWFUL BUTCHERY
BY ATLANTA MObS
Fourteen Negroes Slain and Scores Terribly Wounded Assaults
on White Women Lead TO FrIghtfuI SaWnaIIa Of Blood
White Men in Their Fury Become SaVagss and Hunt Down
tho Frightened Blacks In All Parts Of tho City, Militia
Called Out But Il Appears TO Be in Silent Sympathy With
the SIayerS.

women will be- safe" was shouted back
and the mobs work began.
CAR IS RAIDED.
Just then a trolley car appeared. in
which were two negro men sitting In a
seat behind two white women. In a
twinkling white men boarded the car and
threw the negroes into the midst OF the
mob. where one was cut TO death and the
other fatally beaten
The mob germ was evidently in the at
mosphere, for in less than 80 minutes
after the initial outbreak on Marietta
street there came reports OF mobs at
tacking negroes in more than a dozen
sections of the city. The stories were all
the s/me; the whites would see a negro
and take up the pursuit. In a few min
utes the negro. IL caught, would be dead
or beaten into insensibility.
For four hours the mob spirit revelled
in very saturnaia. On Peach Tree
street, the fashionable thoroughfare OF
the city, the pavement In many places
bore pools OF blood which has gushed
from negroes who were shot. stabbed or
beaten. At 10 O'Clock yesterday morn
ing traces Of the mobs awful work were
10 be found in certain parts sheltered from
the rain.
one OF the worst battles OF Saturday
night took place around the postoffice.
Here the mob, yelling for blood rushed
upon negro barber shop just across
from the Federal building
GET EN- ALL"
Get 'em, get em ALL" With this for
their slogan the crowd, armed with heavy
clubs, canes revolvers, rifles, stones and
weapons of every description. made a
rush upon the barber shop. The two
negro BARRIERS working at their chairs
made no effort TO meet the mob. One
haid hap 1a hrtr
struck him on the face, and at the same
time shots were fired. Both men fell TO
the floor.
The bodies OF both BARRIERS were first
kicked and then dragged from the place.
Grabbing at their clothing, this was soon
torn from them, many OF the crowd TAX
Ing these rags of shirts and clothing home
as souvenirs, or waving them above their
heads 10 incite 10 further riot. When
dragged into the street the faces OF both
victims were terribly mutilated. while
the floor OF the shop was wet with blood.
MEN BECOME sAvAGEs
In sheer wantonness OF savagery the
mob dragged the bodies across the street
10 the monument erected in honor OF
Henry w. Grady. Here negro was de-
tected lurking in the shadow OF the monu-
ment. He was seized and beaten 20
death. His body was thrown by the side
VI lHe TWO negro DdTDeTs ana lelt tnere,
where they were found yesterday morn
ing
One negro was killed on the Forsythe
street bridge. He was felled by a blow,
and then two or three members OF the
mob, standing directly over the body,
poured the contents OF their revolvers into
It,
These were samples Of the work OF the
mob in the centre OF the city, and they
No Cd hkF 9th he
in other quarters of Atlanta All this
time Mayor Woodward was riding from
point to point begging the mobs 10 dis
perse and not to disgrace Atlanta.
"Oh, go home yourself, JIM" the riot
ers cried TO the mayor. I'VE are after
niggers."
The police were as helpless as babies.
Last night the city was practically under
martial law. Mayor Woodward ordered
everybody TO stay indoors