The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-25
BLACKS TURN ON WHITES.
ATLANTA RACE WAR on AGAIN
MANY BATTLES REPORTED.


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Brownsville and Newell station.
ATLANTA. Sept. 7A-RiotinE broke out
sfresh In the outskirts OF Atlanta at O'Clock
tonight and al a result four county police
men were shot down. One wa killed
and the Others badly wounded.
The city marshal OF EgdewOod was
wounded by q mob Of negroes and pitched
battles occurred in Pittsburg, in Browns
vile and at Howells station.
Pittsburg liz the name OF q district In south
Atlanta. 1t Is thickly settled by the worst
negroes in Atlanta. Lieut.. Poole OF the
county police was notified early last night
that an ~incendiary meeting Of negroes was
In progress and, accompanied by Onioer
Jordan and ak other members OF his force.
he vent to break il up.
The officers found about a hundred ne
groes in a lodge room ~denouncing the
whites and calling on the blacks to rise and
avenge those killed in the riot Saturday
night. Lieut.. Poole and his men arrested
eight Of the ringleaders Of the gang and
started to Jail with them. While waiting
for a car near the lodge room the officers
we're fred upon by a mob Of negroes who
had followed. Officer Jim Heard was cut
to pieces by bullets, Jordan was fatally
wounded and Poole received q slight wound.
The eight negroes who had been arrested
attempted to dee and the six officers who
had escaped the volley fired by the mob Of
blacks fired, shooting down six Of the
fleeing negroes. The officers then retreated,
followed some distance by the negroes.
who had made the attack. The officers
took refuge in a house and kept the negroes
at hay, meanwhile telephOnipg to Col.
Anderson, who Is in command Of thetroops,
for all.
Col. Anderson hurried three companies
Of State troops to Pittsburg. When the
negroes saw the troops they fed. pursued
latest telephone messages. have corralled
the negroes. who are said to lumber all the
way from 20 to 100, in a small swamp ne ar
Pittsburg.
The soldiers nave completely surrounded
the swamp. but it is said they will not make
a move to capture the negroes before morn
ing owing to the darkness.
Pittsburg, where the trouble Is in progress,
was the scene Of the riot four years ago
In which Jim Richardson, a negro, barri-
caded himself in a house and dened the
Atlanta police force for 4 day. killing i've
officers before he himself was killed.
The manifestation Of the mob spirit
within the city Of Atlanta was to-day limited
to one lynching. Zeb Long, a giant negro.
was taken from prison at 5 O'Clock this
morning and hanged to a tree. Long
was arrested Sunday evening for i~ncendiary
talk about tho way white people were
treating negroes. The negro was heavily
armed, having a Winchester, two pistols
and plenty OF cartridges.
At S o'clock this morning fifty men broke
into the jail and placing a rope around
the negro's neck dragged him to a tree.
Long begged piteously for life, but he was
promptly swung up and was left to choke
to death.
With this exception the day in Atlanta
was very quiet, due to the State troops,
who are still patrolling the town.
The trolley cars are the posts OF danger
after nightfall, especially those cars which
pass through the negro quarters. Two
guards armed with Winohesters accom-
pany these cars after nightfall. The chill
dren who attend the State Street public
school (whitel were escorted to and from
the sckcclhonse to-day by 100 Georgia
guarismen.
Many negroes live near the school and It
was feared they would assault the children.
The bravery OF Mrs. F. 3. Coz Of West
End saved Walter Hicus, a negro, from
being lynched this morning. The negro
was being chased by a mob on suspicion
OF being implicated in the assault o Mrs.
Arnold, for which one innocent negro has
already been killed. There were a hundred
whites in the party and the negro was hard
pressed when Mrs. Cox called to him TO come
into her home.
The negro rushed into the proffered
refuge and Mrs. Cox shut the door on him
n faced the mob. She told the men that
they could not have the negro without
breaking into her house.
This negro has worked for me q number
OF years." said Mrs. Cox. He may be
guilty but he ought TO have a chance for
his life and not be put to death on suspicion.
You can't have him but II you will tele-
phone for officers they can take him to
jail"
The mob was struck by Mrs. Cor cour-
age and officers were summoned, who look
the negro TO Jail.
The rush to buy firearms by the better
class Of white citizens has been phenomenal.
Sheriff Helms said this afternoon that from
noon to S o'clock he and his deputies had
issued more than 1000 permits 70 carry
arms and at 0 o'clock in the afternoon the
crowd continued to come. One hardware
store sold $4,000 worth Of arms and ammu-
milton between Saturday night and this
noon.