The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-09-28
MILITIA RULES;
ATLANTA QUIET
Slaughter of Negroes by Re-
vengeful Whites Is
Checked.
BLOODY WORK WHILE 1T LASTED
Negroes Mobbed, Murdered and
Beaten in All Parts OF
the City.
White People Stirred to Frenzy Over
Numerous Attacks ON Their
Women by Fiends i'm
Black Skins.

Atlanta, Ca. Sept 25.-The city is
now oriet. The seventeen companies
Of stale militia are in complete con-
troll Of the situation. All saloons are
closed for the day under the order OF
the mayor.
Atlanta, Ga, Sept 25.-Frenzied re-
venge was taken in this city for at
lacks made on white women, when
over a dozen negroes were slain and
many more injured by mObs Of white
men whom the police could not con-
troll.
Thirteen white women have been at
tackled by negroes in Atlanta in the
last two months. Only one of these
assailants had been caught and
lynched. The temper of the whites,
terribly strained, was snapped by four
assaults in one day, and the mObs
reigned in Atlanta.
No Question of Guilt.
The stories were all the same. The
whites would see a negro and cry:
There's one of the black fiends who
attack our WOmen!' and in few min
utes the negro would be dead or
beaten into inscnsibility. There was
no question of the Negroes guilt or in
nOcencc. He was simply one of the
race that was laying hands on white
women. and that fact doomed him. AS
q matter of fact, no one believes that
q single guilty negro was killed by
the mob. The victims paid the penal
ty for being negroes when the temper
of the white broke because of attacks
by negroes on white women.
For four hours the mob spirit reyeled
in saturnalia. On Peachtree street,
the aristocratic thOroughfare of the
city, the pavennents in many places
bore pools of blood where negroes were
shot, stabbed or beaten.
No Negro Was Safe.
No cOlOred man was safe. and the
fact that Mayor Woodward cOunseled
order from Il street corner seemed
only to spur the Infatuated men to re-
newed action. When driven by police
and firemen, the later with their hose,
from one locality, they would go to
another, striking right and left at luck
less blacks.
Ordinarily, one sees about as many
negroes as whites in the streets, but
the slaughter had it's effect on the ne
GrOes and those who had not fed re-
manned in their homes. Street hacks
were abandoned at curbings: drivers
on baggage wagons vanished and
their places were taken by white men.
This fear Of trouble affected several
public cOnveniences. The pOstOffice
officials had much difficulty in deliver
ing special letters.
Homes Without Servants.
In some restaurants service has
been restricted by the absence of reg
ular walters. Practically every home
in Atlanta was minus it's servants the
negroes being afaid to venture through
the streets to reach the places where
they were employed. Women on
Peachtrec street. the fashionable resi-
dence section Of the city who have
not touched culinary utensil in years
The hotels were practically without
servants. and not negro bOOtblack
or news boy was to be seen Oh the
streets.
WORSE THAN A CUBAN BATTLE
Clash in an Atlanta Suburb in Which
White Blood Is Spilled.
Atlanta. Ga. SEPT 25.-Reports Of
slaughter in various parts of Atlanta
last night, after careful investigation,
have resolved themselves into one fatal
fight between Il number of county po-
licemcn and deputies and an unknown
number of negroes In this fight,
which took place i'll South Atlanta,
about three miles from the city's
center and in the vicinity of Clark
university, negro institution. Coun-
ty Policeman James l.. Heard was
killed. four other officers We're
wounded, and three policemen We're
missing at last reports. The number
of negroes dead may never he known
but the officers in the darkness say
they counted from six to fifteen dead
or dying negroes on the ground.
County Policeman Heard. with ter
other officers and ten citizens SwOrn
in as deputies. Tearing that negroes
We're gathering. went to disperse them
AS they approached McDonougf
avenue an unknown number of negroes
hidden behind fences and under houses
fired n yOlley Policeman Heard fel
dead. Policeman Frank Jordan, him
self wounded in the head and using
the dead body of Heard a shield, free
three rounds at the negroes. Police
man Odum was wounded in the head
Policeman A. O. Eubanks wounded
in leg, Ernest Smith, citizen, sho
IN hip.