Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-24
ARMED MILITIA
GUARD ATLANTA
FROM MOB RULE
Another Negro Was Lynched
Early This Morning.
JAIL FORCED TO GET HIM
City is Quiet and No Further Trouble
is Expected Now.
CITIZENS CONDEMN MURDERS
For Weeks There Has Been a Growing
Terror of the Existing Condi-
tions-The Outlook.
CITIZENS CONDEMN MURDERS

Another negro was lynched at
Atlanta this morning. The city is
quieter and the armed citizens who
have been patrolling the streets
have disbanded. The Fifth Geor-
gia Regiment of nine companies
is guarding the city proper, and
the Governor Horse Guards, 200
strong, arc patrolling the suburbs,
Citizens severely condemn the &C
ton of the mobs, which seem in
the main to be made up of hood
lums. No accurate list of the dead
negroes can yet be obtained. 1t
will exceed twenty, it is reported.
Special Dispatch To The Star.
ATLANTA, Ga, September pa crowd
of negroes congregated near State Street
School this morning and frightened chill
dren. They made threats OF violence and
refused to disr.rse, Capt Smith ordered a
company of militia to grounds to guard
the school and fire on negroes if not dis
persed. Negroes He'd at the approach of
troops Street car operatives were armed
with rifles ard did effective work in pre-
venting repetition of scenes of Saturday
night. No negroes were killed on cars.
The feature OF the situation is the search
ty of negroe5 usually employed about the
city. The telegraph companies are adver-
Using for white delivery clerks; the post
Office Is experiencing great difficulty in
sending out special delivery mail. Although
negro drivers are seen on many wagons
many such vehicles are handled by whites
Domestic servants are frightened, and an
exodus of large proportions of negroes from
the city is reported.
ATLANTA. Ga. September 24.-The body
of Zeb Long, negro, was found hanging
in the woods early this morning. about half
a mile from East Point, a suburb of At
lanta. Long war locked in the East Point
Jail, charged with disorderly conduct The
Jail was broken into shortly after midnight
and Long was taken to his DOOM The
usual mystery surrounds the affair. 1t is
not known Yet whether Long was sus-
pected Of any connection with any of the
recent assaults on white women
Special Dispatch To The Star
ATLANTA. Ga, September "a
Atlanta is quiet after It's stormy night
and day. The military has been withdrawn
from the streets The armed patrol of cit
liens has laid aside guns and returned 10
work. II Is confidently believed that there
will be more mob violence.
While Sunday was marked by quiet and
order in the uptown streets. there were re-
ports of horrors In the suburbs where no
efficient protection could be provided Small
mobs of hoodlums. drunk With whisky OBJ
tanned from blind tiger divisions in the out
skirts. set on AMI beat number of negroes
a number were reported killed, but the re-
ports when sifted proved false except in
two three Instances.
No Race War.
1t is impossible at this hour to give n
report OF the dead. Ii was stated this
morning that many other bodies had been
removed from the city by friends who
feared further violence if a funeral were
attempted. IT IS conservatively estimated
that the death list will reach more than
twenty.
There Will hc no race war. There will
he military rule Governor Terrell
called conference of prominent citizens
at Piedmont Hotel yesterday afternoon
and announced intention of declaring a
law. He was dissuaded by citizens but
lie maintained that If trouble continued
he would turn Atlanta over TO the military.
The citizens denounce the mob in unmis-
taxable terms. Not one man Of respectable
standing was in the mob. which was COM
posed of half-grOwn boys and denizens of
the slums and factory districts The At
lanta News. which published infamma-
tory extras saturday night WAS condemned
at the meeting The city was virtually
under military rule all day. The 9th
Georgia Regiment mine companies) was
marshaled on the streets. and aat darkness
seven companies from other cities arrived
The men Were placed on various streets
and maintained their guard all night.
After midnight the soldiers slept on the
asphalt with hut few pickets pacing
their beats. The Governors Horse Guards
100 strong, kept up a patrol of the sub
urban streets, and reported everything
quiet after midnight Policemen carried
Winchesters instead of clubs and hundreds
of citizens armed themselves and patroIled
the districts whore they live
Mayor Woodward issued an order Sunday
closing all barr"oms until further notice
and the order is being enforced Pawnshops
sell no weapons except on an order from
Adjutant Burton Smith.
Two incendiary fires occurred last night,
and the crimes were traced directly to
negroes. The negroes were bitter Sunday.