Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-09-29
BLOOD RAN IN STREETS.
Sixteen Negroes Killed and 100
Wounded In Atlanta
DOZEN MODS RULED The CITY
Assaults on 10 White Women BY
Negroes Cause a Reign Of Terror
In the Southern City.

Atlanta, Ga. Sept "a Modern
Atlanta has nevtr witnessed such
scenes as ave been feature of the
entire day following the exciting in
oldents of Saturday aight. negro
was Iynehed on Marietta street Sab
bath afternoon.
The negro who was lynched was
suspected of assauiting one of the
white women Saturday and was be-
ing taken to ia I. when he was taken
from the officers By a dozen men and
shot 10 death in the street.
Militia have patrollsd the streets,
while groups of citizens have stood
upon the corner discussing the situa-
ton from their various standpoiuts.
The number of dead at the last
report was Is. but may exceed 90
Tie injured are several times that
number. About dozen women are
seriously hurt.
MODS ATTACK NEGROES
The outbreak SATURDAY. night W s
against the negro race. and was
marked by all the savagery winch &C,
compapies racial eruption. Ordi-
narily the southern mob gnes after
some particular NEGRO. and after pun
fishing him, washes its hands and he.
comes respectable But Saturday
night the mob was after all negroes
because they were negroes. Thirteen
white women have been attacked bv
ngroes IN Atlanta in the last two
months. Four of these women we've
assaulted Saturday evening. ONLY one
of tfese assailanfs had been caught
and lynched. The temper of the
whites. already strained, was snapp-
ed by the four assaults Saturday. an
the mob reigned in Atlanta.
Some white man mounted box
near the pestoffice, and, holding aloft
a night extra announcing the fourth
assault on white women, cried out
Are We southern white men going
to stand for this?'' mo; let's kill
all the negroes. SO our women will
the mob was soon or.
Just then trolley car appeared in
which were two negroes sitting be-
mind two white women. Lock at
that someone cried. In twink
ling white men boarded the car and
threw the negroes into the midst of
the mob, where one was cut to death
and the other fatally beaten.
The mob germ was evidently in the
atmosphere for in less than 30 minutes
after the initial outbreak there came
reports of mobs attacking negroes in
more than dozen sections of the city
The stories were all the same, the
whites would see negroe and CRY +:
"Tbere is one of the black fiends who
assaults our women - And in few
minutes the negro woald be dead or
beaten into insensibilty. There was
no question of the negroes guilt or
innocence. He was simply member
of the race that was laying hands on
white women aud that fact doomed
him.
POOLS OF BLOOD IN STREETS.
The victims paid the penalty for be-
ing negroes when the white temper
breaks out because of attack by
negroes on white women. For four
hotrs TIE mob spirit revelled in very
saturnalia. On Peachtree st eet, the
swell thoroughfare of the CITY. the
pavements in many places bore pools
of blood when had gushed from
negroes who were shot. stabbed or
beatenA AT 10 O'Clock SUNDAY morn
ing traces of blood and brains were TO
be found in certain parts, sheltered
from the rain.
The situation became so threatening
at IL O'Clock that Governor Terrell
was appealed to TO order out the state
troops though no reqRest had come
from the sheriff. Governor Terrell
gave the order modifying eight local
infantry companies at once. Pre-
viously a police riot call had been
sounded summoning all police reserves
to Headquarters. With the decision to
call ont the troops, the big fire bell
sounded once more, this time the call
for every member of the militia to|
rspors foIthwitn at his armorv. IL
was almost 2 o'clock this morning
before the first squah appeared ON The
streets and at O'Clock six companies
were under arms.
The attacks on negroes had the
effect of clearing the street OF blacfs.
Street hacks were abandoned at curb
inRs. drivers on baggage wagons van
ished and their places were taken by
white men. Throughout the day
hundreds of negroes have been fleeing
the city hx train and wannn and on