The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-24


Sunday passed with only two victims
done TO death by lynch law.
The negroes are In wild panic but
some OF the desperate members OF the
race have begun reprisals that. unless
checked at once, promises TO bring
about a renewal OF the bloody scenes
OF Saturday night.
Street cars returned TO the barns
early last evening, their windows smash
ed and their framework broken by
stones hurled at them while passing
through the negro sections OF the city.
The crews refused TO continue on the
runs, and by 10 o'clock the schedule
on number OF streets had to be
abandoned. Luckily the negroes did
not show themselves and there were
no collisions with mobs.
SLAIN IN STREET.
The first victim OF the mob yesterday
was killed at 8 o'clock. He had been
arrested by the police, under suspicion
OF being the assailant of one Of the fve
white women attacked on Saturday and
was being taken TO the station, when
mob intercepted the officers. The man
was seized. the policemen were brushed
aside, and almost instantly the negro
fell TO the pavement dying from
dozen bullet wounds. His body then
was riddled and left lying in the street.
The other victim, a porter in the
Marion hotel, was captured by mob
and hurried around the corner from the
hostelry. He was Knocked down by
member OF the mob and then kicked TO
death. His body was left lying where
II fell.
Earlier in the day a negro appeared
on the streets armed with a rifle. The
firearm was wrenched from his grasp
by a crowd that seemed TO spring from
the ground. He was set upon and bru-
tally beaten. His injuries were so
severe that little hope for his recovery
is entertained at the city hospital
whittier he was taken. During the beat
ing of this negro squad of militiamen
was within n few yards of the mob
but seemed TO regard the AFFAIR with
approval
QUIET DURING DAY.
Gov. Terrell having placed the city
practically under martial law, there
was no general recrudescence during
the Sabbath daylight hours OF the negro
hunting by white mobs. which Satur-
day night resulted in the death OF IL
negroes and two white men and the
wounding more or less seriously OF
fully a.hundred negroes.
II was o. clock yesterday morning be-
more semblance OF order was restored
in the city. At 2 o'clock Gov. Terrell or
dered out all the state troops In the city
and placed the situation in charge OF Col
Clifford Anderson. AS soon as Col Ander-
son could get in touch with his subordi-
mates he distributed squads over the city.
placing them at strategic points. and In
short while the situation was greatly
improved.
RAIN HELPED.
heavy rain, which began falling at
o'clock and continued for nearly two
hours. was probably more effective in
subduing the mob and sending its mem
bers to cover than even the presence OF
the state troops.
The southern mob. as a rule, when af-
ter negroes. cares little for local sodiery
The mob members believe that In their
attacks on negroes they have the silent
sympathy OF the local troops. and the
view of the mob is not far wrong.
The presence OF a thousand soldiers
scattered over Atlanta in squads ranging
from ~ to so. according to the Importance
or the location, gave the city military
air that II has worn on no Sabbath since
Sherman was laundering at its gates,
back in the COS.
A disturbance was caused about
. clock yesterday morning, when a negro
appeared on Marietta street near the
United States building, with a rife In
five minutes the negro was surrounded by
a crowd OF white men, who seized tho
rife and used IL TO club the negro so that
he was sent to the hospital Fifty yards
away was grouped a patrol OF 20 state
guardsmen.
A black face on the streets was a rarity
yesterday Ordinarily one sees about as
many negroes as whites but the stern
lesson OF Saturday night had its effect on
the negroes, and they remained at their
homes.
FRIGHTENED NEGROES.
Practically every home In Atlanta was
minus its servants yesterday morning, the
negroes being afraid 10 venture
through the streets to reach the places
where they were employed Society wom-
en- on Peach Tree street. the fashionable
residence section Of the city, who have
not touched a culinary utensil I'm years.
prepared the meals for their families yes
terday The hotels were practically with
out servants and not a negro boot)lack
or newsboy was TO be seen on the streets.
That the negroes are thoroughly fright
ened is evidenced by the fact that they
are smuggling their dead into the country
and giving them private interment. being
afraid TO take the corpses through the
CITY, lest some indignity be provoked.
Many of the wounded negroes have also
been secretly removed from the city.
The outbreak Saturday night was
against the negro race and was marked
by all the savagery which accompanies
racial eruption. Russians massacring
Jews in Odessa were not more cruel than
tho Atlanta mob Ordinarily the southern
mob goes after some particular negro and
after Furnishing him washes its hands and
becomes respectable. But Saturday night
the mob was after all negroes, because
they were negroes.
WOMEN ATTACKED.
Thirteen white women have been at
tackled by negroes In Atlanta I'm the last
two months Four Of these women were
assaulted Sunday evening. only one OF
the assailants had been caught and
iynched. The temper OF the whites, so
terribly strained. was snapped by the
four assaults Saturday. and the mob
reigned I'm Atlanta. Some white man
mounted a box on Marietta street near
the postoffice. and holding aloft n night
extra announcing Fourth Assault by Ne
groes on White Women" cried Are
we Southern white men going 10 stand
for this7"
"No. let's kill all the negroes, so ,our