Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-09-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
More Than Dozen Negroes Killed
in Race Riot
Mobs Of White Men Attacked Every Male
Negro In Sight In Atlanta-Innoeen
Men Murdered and Mutllated.


Twelve negroes and two white men
were killed and at least 100 negroes and
80 white men seriously injured In q race
riot which ragged in Atlanta, Ca, all Sat
urday night. The outbreak was marked
by all the savagery which accompanies
a racial eruption. Russians numbering
Jews in Odessa were not more cruel than
the Atlanta mob.
Thirteen white women have been at
tackled by negroes in Atlanta IN two
months -Four OF these women were as
saulted Saturday evening. Only one Of
these assailants had been caught and
lynched. The temper of the whites had
been terribly strained and was snapped.
by the four assaults Saturday Then the
mob reigned in Atlanta.
A white man mounted a box in Mar
ietta street near the post office. and hold
ing aloft a night extra announcing
Fourth Assault by Negroes on White
Women" cried:
Are we southern white men going to
stand for this?"
mo Let's kill all the negroes 80 our
women will be SAFE" was shouted back,
and the mob was soon at work. Just
then trolley car appeared in which were
two negro men sitting in the seat behind
two white women
Look at that" someone cried. In a
twinkling white men boarded the car and
mob, where one was cut to death and the
other fatally beaten. In less than 30
minutes after the initial outbreak in
Marietta street there came reports OF
mobs attacking negroes at more than
dozen places In the city. The stories were
all the same. The whites would see
negro and cry: There is one Of the black
fiends who assault our women" and in
a few minutes the negro would be dead
or beaten into insensibility. There was
no question OF the negro's guilt or inno-
cence. He was simply a member OF the
race that had been laying hands on white
women, and that doomed him. As a
matter OF fact no one believes that a
single guilty negro was killed by the mob
Tho victims paid the penalty for being
negroes.
For four hours the mob spirit revealed.
in very saturnalia. In Peachtree street
the fashionable thoroughfare OF the city,
the pavement In many places bore pools
OF blood, which had gushed from negroes
who were shot, stabbed or beaten One
OF the worst battles OF the night took
place around the post Office. Here the
mob, yelling for blood. rushed upon a
negro barber shop just across from the
federal building.
Get 'em. get 'em ALL" with this for
their slogan the crowd, armed with heavy
clubs canes. revolvers rifles. stones ana
weapons Of every description, made a
rush on the barber shop. The two negro
BARRIERS. working at their chairs made no
effort to meet the mob. One man held up
both his hands A brick caught him in
the face and at the same time shots were
fired. Both men fell to the floor The,
bodies OF the BARRIERS were first kicked
about and then dragged from the place
The mob soon tore their clothing from
them, many OF the crowd taking the rags
home as souvenirs or waving them over
their heads to invite Others 10 Join the
riot. When dragged into the street the
faces OF both BARRIERS were terribly mu-
tilated. while the floor of the shop was
puddled with blood In sheer wantonness
| OF savagery the mob dragged the bodies
across the street to the monument erected
in honor Of Henry w. Grady. Here a
negro was detected lurking in the shadow
OF the monument. He was summarily
treated Felled with a single blow, shots
were fired at the body until the crowd.
for its own safety called for halt on
this method. Someone yelled: BEAT 'em
up, beat EN- up; you'll Kill good white men
by shooting" BY way OF reply the mob
began beating rhe body. which was al
ready far beyond any possibility OF strug-
| gle or pain.
order was not restored until after mar
tial law had been declared and the militia
had been called out by Gov Terrell
Later.
Rioting was started afresh in the OUT =
skirts of Atlanta Monday night when
/ three officers were shot from ambush
near Clark university. a negro college
Two of the men were killed and the other
morally wounded. The city marshal of
Edgewood was shot while attempting to
arrest negro. Additional troops were
ordered out by the governor Tuesday.
Many negroes who were carrying arms
were arrested.