The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-26

erent disposition. he was put under ar
rest and sent to the Fulton county
jail. About 100 were locked up.
Among those arrested was the assas-
sin of Policeman Heard. who was
killed In the attack on the County po-
lice during the earlier part OF the
night. With him were several wit
nesses to the shooting.
The total known dead as the result
OF last nights encounter is reported
this morning as five negroes, besides
Policeman Heard and Mrs. X. Z.
Thompson, white woman. who drop
ped dead from the excitement of wit
Messing the shooting of two negro
prisoners. two of the dead negroes
were tracked from the scene OF the
attack on the police to their homes by
trails of blood.
There they were found early today.
Two more died at the hospital, both
shot during last nights fight and an
unknown negro was found dead near
the scene of the same night.
Governor Terrell over the telephone
has just declared to the Associated
Press that he does not believe It will
be necessary to declare martial law,
but as a precautionary measure, he
intends during the day to order sew
eral companies of the state militia,
probably four to be an Atlanta by
O'Clock tonight.
In another encounter between Po-
licenlen and negroes, about two miles
east of the center or the city, two
blacks were killed at o'clock this
morning. Three officers went to the
locality to stop promiscouous firing
which had been reported. The officers
surrounded house wnere the negroes
had barricaded themselves. The blacks
opened fire on the ofncers and after
close range battle the negroes, said to
be desperate characters, were killed.
EHrar r. fw.nr fO ~ nN al
Brownsville which was raided by the
militia early today. "A gatling gun
with 10000 rounds OF ammunition has
been located at prominent street
corner, commanding the situation
there. The raid appears to have re-
This is reflected in the decision OF
Governor Terrell that the present sit
uation does not call for martial law.
Al the invitation of Mayor Wood
ward and other prominent citizens.
Bishop Turner and 4Ialf a dozen 9TH
er leaders of the negro race here, have
been summoned to a conference with
few of the authorities.
a guard has been placed about the
city water works ana the saloons are
closed and will remain closed proba-
bly, for the remainder of the week. rhe
city schools are KEEP open and the at
tendance Is about normal, excepting in
two cases, where the white schoolh
are located near negro institutions.
A feature of the night was the or
ganization of citizens in various
neighborhoods of the residence Sec
tions. for mutual protection. A call
for help in many pafLs of the city last
night would have brought from ten TO
fifty determined citizens to the scene
in two minutes. Although the sale or
firearms and ammunition has been
prohibited without special orders from
the sheriff or military authorities. most
white citizens are armed, particularly
at night. The stocks of weapons will
be exhausted in Atlanta and neigh
boring cities are being drawn upon.
The known dead. who have met
death in connection with the riots here
since last Saturday night, number one
white man and eighteen negroes. To
this number might be added the name
of Mrs. Robert P. Thompson, an estim-
able white woman. who dropped dead
Monday evening as two negroes were
shot and beaten in her sight.
The dead;
White.
County Policeman James Heard, kill
ed in South Atlanta. Monday night.
COlOred.
Marshall Carter, 13-year-old boy.
killed in fight with another negro Mon
day.
Glenn Rhodes. killed in South Atlanta
Monday night
Sam MeGruder. wounded at South
Atlanta Monday night; died at Grady
hospital Tuesday morning.
Frank Fambro. killed at South At
.anta Monday night.
Annie Laurie Shepard, negro woman,
killed Saturday night
Henry Welsh, killed in Cuban pool
room Saturday night.
Frank Smith. killed Saturday night.
Milton Brown. killed on Marietta
street Saturday night.
Will Marion boot black. killed Sat
urday night.
Zeb Long. Iynched at East Point Mon
day morning.
viii Moreland. killed by city police
at MaGruder and Randolph streets,
Tuesday morning.
linden titled negro man. killed at
South Atlanta Monday night Body in
undertakers establishment
Five unidentified bodies. located at
various points.
This. the third day of Atlanta's race
war has passed without serious dis
turbances, Rumors literally by the hun
dreds have been brought to the atten-
lion of the authorities and to the news
papers, but in not a single instance up
to 4 o'clock this evening had any of
the opposite had been established-that
they were absolutely false.
Specials sent to outside papers have
been reflected in Inquiries to local
newspaper men. the charge was made
that fifty negroes had been killed here
and that the local papers and the Press
Associations were either being censored
or were suppressing the facts Every
bit of information that could be gather
ed and verified, has appeared in the To-
cal papers; nothing has been held back
from the local or the outside world that
would be of interest. and that has been
nroven true. The papers here have unit
ed in an agreement to print only es-
tablished facts to issue no more spec
tails or extras on the riots. and The
agreement Is being lived up to.
The spreading of wild reports ol
horrible attrncities in almost every
mart of the town. has added greatly 10
the task of the military. for every
rumor has been investigated elther
over telephone or by personal Visit
Of the military officers
Following the arrest of % negroes at
Brownyille, including Clark University,
early today, and the detention of about
one hundred of these In the county Jail,
the feeling prevailed that at last peace
had been restored in by a strong snow
of authority. Almost simultaneously
two negroes were killed in another and
distant part of the city by three po-
licemen, who had beent sent 10 stop
the shooting. The main events dur
ing the day have been the ordering in
to the city four companies OF state
militia from outside pointc. Governor
Terrell, saying TIE order was given as
a matter of Drecautton rather than
from an Vpregsing necessity,