The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-09-28
RIOT in ATLANTA, GA.
NEGROES and WHITES In A DIES.
PERATE FIGHT.


Torn from Cars and Dragged Out Of
shops-MiIitia is Called Out.
Atlanta, Ca, Sept. 24.-In one Of the |
worst race riots known In Georgia a
number of negroes were killed and
scores badly injured by Infatuated
whites Saturday night. Reports Of the
number of dead vary. Some place 1t |
as high as 80.
Four attempts at assault on white |
women by negroes within or near the
limits of the city wrought white citi-
zens to a high pitch of excitement.
The assaults of the day followed two
others of a similar nature, within the
week and at least half dozen others
within the last two months, and
brought matters to climax.
Governor Terrell has issued an or
der calling out eight companies Of the
Fifth infantry and one battalion OF
light artillery. This order was not is
sued until three negroes had been kill
ed and Is taken to the hospitals, five
of whom will die. These comprise
only those cases Of which the police
have official information.
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 aft
er the work of the day, were ruth
lessly torn from the cars or attacked
on the streets. In few cases negroes
retaliated during the early part of the
night, but after 10 o'clock they were
scarce in public places.
The fire department was called out
to dispense the mob on Decatur street,
a street most frequented by negroes,
and for q time seemed to hold the
crowd at bay. The police reserves
were called out and will hold the sit
uation until troops can be modified.
The mob seemed to lack leadership,
and this doubtless prevented greater
slaughter.
Bitter Race War.
The disturbance here has taken the
form of an active and bitter race war.
| The barber shops where negroes
were employed next became objects of
attack. One of the hardest fights OF
the night took place about the post
office. A negro barber shop across
the street was the object of attack,
and in less time than it takes to tell
| it the shop was wrecked and the ne.
groes were beaten, one to death, the
other proprietors escaping by the aid
of the police.
On Peters street hard fight took
place. This was started by negro
shooting at the crowd below from
second story window. A bullet hi
him and he fell back and died in few
moments. One negro who was fount
with a pistol in his hand was beater
to death on the viaduct, in the centel
of the city and block from the Asso
ciated Press office.
II Colonel Clifford Anderson, of thu
Fifth Georgia regiment, is in charge
| SQUAD of 100 militiamen, patrollini
the center of the city.
All reserve police, are on duty, ant
are patrolling the streets armed witt
rifles. A heavy rain has begun an
this has cleared the streets.
i Two White Women Frightened.
Mrs. F. Arnold, in the west part G
the city, was attacked in the yard bt
hind her home at o'clock last nigh
q and escaped by screaming for hell
. The negro escaped, but a negro wa
& arrested and brought to police heat
7 quarters.
7 Mrs. Chafin, living near the So
q diers' Home, was attacked in a sim
2 lar manner this afternoon. A posse
a searching the woods for her assailan
Later Report.
I'll Nearly "a hours have elapsed sine
A a race war of no mean proportions b
a gan in Atlanta. 1t is believed that
A least 16 lives have been sacrificed ar
3 the number of injured will be 40, Sc
Il eral of whom cannot recover. IT
city is controlled by the police, aide
20 by nearly 1000 state militia.
y Another Riot Monday.
II The reports of slaughter in vario
"A parts of Atlanta since the sun we
IA down, after the most careful investig
IS ton possible, have sifted down to o.
50 fight Letween number of county p
lice and deputies and an unknoV
number of negroes. In the fight, whi'
took place in South Atlanta, in {
,p vicinity Of Clark university. neg
Is institution, county policeman. Jam
g. l.. Heard. was killed. Four 9th
% officers were wounded and three polio
~ men were missing at last report.
le- The number of negroes dead is I
y. known possibly it will never be know
The officers, in the darkness, claim
have counted from six to 10 des
The excitement of the fight and da,