Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-09-26
BLOODY riot | IN ATLANTA,
MOB OF TEN THOUSAND RULED IRE CARE
clrY-FlFrEEN NEGROES SLAIN.
-FOUR policemen SHOT TO PIECES.
Hospitals Crowded with Wounded and Dying.
One Tajnsand Soldiers Patrol The Guy.
Seven Negroes Killed at Memphis.

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Atlanta, September 2A--Five attempts
at assault on white women by negroes
within or near the limits of the city Sat
urday, wrought wni5e citizens here to q
The assaults of Saturday followed two
others of similar nature within the
week, and at least half dozen others
within the last two months, and brought
a a-ciimax. .<G
At midnight Governor Terrell issued
an order calling out eight companies Of
the Fifth Infantry and one battery Of
sued until three negroes had been killed
and fifteen taken to. the hospital, five of
whom will die.
The mob began it's work early in the
evening, pulling negroes from street cars
and beating them with clubs, bricks and
stones. Negro men and women, riding
to their homes after the work of the day,
were rathlessly torn from the cars or at
tackled on the streets.
The mob seemed to lack q leadership
and this doubtless has prevented a.
greater slaughter.
Atlanta was in practical control of the
State troops Sunday aud Sunday night,
though not under martial law.
The six Atlanta companies, five of the
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Guard, who were out all day, were sup
plemented in the afternoon by the arri-
val of four outside companiea and still
four more came in last night With
these twenty companies there were 600
State troops patrolling the streets and
outskirts of Atlanta last night. ~
| Really the whole trouble started by q
negro man pushing white woman off a
sidewalk.
! In the fighting Saturday night, the me-
/ gro women were the most warlil1e, urg-
ing resistance to the mob, and them
selves fighting like amazouS.
The lawless character of the mob of
Saturday night was fully demonstrated
during the latter part of the evening.
When negroes had vanished from tho
streets, the aimIess mob, from pure
wantonness, broke windows, and dam
aged property. The crowd, after pull
ing the negro porrers feom the Pullmans
of the Western aud Atlantic Railroad
train, standing ready to start, proceeded
to smash the windows in the day coaches
and mail and baggage cars. They then
crossed to tho Kimball House, and con-
tinued the window smashing amuse-
ment, causing loss of several hundred
dollars. Numerous windows in stores on
Peachtree street show the fact that the
mob passed that way. A close watch
was maintained to guard against incen-
diarism, but fortunately this precaution
was unnecessary and fire was not added
| to the horrors. F
Sunday passed without serious trou-
bles following the riots of Saturday
night. Unconfirmed rnmors of white
man killed by negroes and of negro
being shot to pieces by enraged whites
have been heard. H
| Sunday morning mob took negro
porter from the Marion Hotel, in the
heart of the city, and shot him to death.
| Sunday evening conductors and motor
men on the Magnolia street car line re-
| fused to take their cars out. One car,
just In, has several broken windows,
whore negroes in the outskirts of town
stoned it. This line runs through a sec
| tion thickly populated by negroes.
A meeting of citizens, bankers and
business and professional men, repre-
senting the best element of Atlanta citi-
zenship. was held Sunday afternoon to
consider the present emergency. Speeches
were made and warmly applauded, In
which the killing of half score of in
nocent negroes, and the wonnding of a
score or more of whites and blacks, were
condemned as q reflection on the best
spirit of the city, the State and the
South.
At the meeting resolutions were ad-
opted, urging upon the city council the
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dives, in which 1t was declared much of
the crime among the negro classes has
its origin. Closer restriction of saloons
for both whites and blacks was demand.
ed from the city authorities.
| Up to Sunday evening more than fifty
arrests had been made of members Of
Saturday nights mob, charging incite-
ment to riot. Five hundred dollars bond
has been required in each case. No
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list.
| OF the dead it is impossible to get tho
names. Only partial lists have been pre-
pared and no two of these agree.
Early this morning 200 persons stormed
the Jail at West Point. five miles from
Atlanta, and took out Zeb Long, Q. negro
who was arrested Sunday for carrying a
graph pole and shot him dead. Long had
resisted arrest and had been parading
the streets with gun.
i the Atlanta Constitution of this Mon
day. morning gave the following resume
of the rioting up to Monday morning:
| "Mob Of 10000 ruled city for five
hours; police powerless, and troops not
on scene until worst was over.
sixteen negroes and one white man
known to be dead. Thought list of dead
| negroes may reach thirty.
| Trouble started at corner of Decatur
and Pryor streets.
| "Mob pulled negroes from cars and
] chased them on streets whenever one
was seen.
/, Number of injured unknown. About
twenty cases taken to Grady Hospital.
force kept on duty. Civil and military
authorities working together.
"Trolley cars smashed and many snow
windows broken and property destroyed.