Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-25
ATLANTA MOB
|. !. DOES DEADLY
WORK
SIXTEEN NEGROES ARE
REPORTED DEAD
Gate City iUnder Guard of State
- Troops
MAY DECLARE MARTIAL LAW
Companies of Militia Ordered into
Atlanta From Macon, Rome,
Barnesvilie, Griffin, cedartown,
Marietta and Jackson-Mayor
Woodward Closes Saloons
Until Order Is Restored. I
/ (. All Negroes On Streets III
Searched by Police
For Weapons.
Gate City Under Guard of State
- - Troops
MAY DECLARE MARTIAL LAW
For Weapons.

Atlanta, Sept. Z4.-ALIdnLd VIII
messed it's widest night Saturday
night. Thousands of white men, with
their passions infamed because of
the recent attacks of negroes on white
women, gathered in the business cen
ter of Atlanta, and for four hours
mobs chased negroes, stoned and shot
them to death, and boarded trolley
ears, snatching off negroes and beat
them to death with clubs and sticks.
In somee portions of the streets the
sidewalks ran red with the blood of
dead and dying negroes, and in many
trolley cars there were pools of blood
in which dead negroes We're lying.
The fire department was called out
In the midst of the terrible excite
ment by order of the mayor, and by
stream OF water tired to disperse the
mobs. This had a good effect only
!. for few minutes, for the mObs
quickly reorganiZed, and on other
streets began to shoot and stone ne
groes.
Rushes were made upon the hard
ware stores for pistols, but these were
closed. and the supply of ammunition
was not increased. The saloons were
closed, and in fact every place of
business had closed doors long before
the usual hour
At one time a number of trolley
cars had to be rushed out of the city
with dead and dying negroes and po,
tcemen upon them.
All the while the air was filed with
cries of:
XIII them!"
"ShOOt themi"
Lynch them"
Down with the negroes who attack
and assault our white women!"
A number of men paraded the
streets holding aloft extra editions of
the afternoon papers whereon were
large type lines displaying assaults
negroes had made on white women
Saturday afternoon and evening.
In some streets the air was filled
with the reports of pistols, and the
shouts Of enraged men who seemed
more like wild beasts than human
beings
Atlanta never witnessed q scene
that began to compare to it, and it
was the ferNent prayer of all who
saw it that the like would never be
witnessed again
The scenes on the incoming trolley
cars were the most fearful of all. No
sooner would a trolley car reach the
center of the city than it would be
eagerly scanned for negroes. and if
one was seen on the car it was i'm
mediately boarded ana a rush made
for the blacks by both men and
women.
The crowd seemed to have sud
denly become maddened because they
had been forced from Decatur street
by the stream of water which the
tiremen poured upon them with re-
lentless force. The men turned to
demons for while, and rushed from
street to street looking for negroes.
Nearly always the negro sighted ran
for his life and escaped, but in many
instances the negro was either ignor.
ant or stubborn, and he either receiy.
ed a severe beating OF was killed.
There will doubtless be many ne.
groes to die in the Grady hospital, as
a large number was taken there who
were seriously injured by being beat.