Rock Island Argus., 1906-09-24
Whites Angered by Long
Series of Assaults
on Women.
FIVE OCCUR IN A DAY
Blacks Hanged, Shot Down and
Beaten Till They Flee by
Hundreds From City.

Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 24-The city is
quiet. Seventeen companies of state
militia are in complete control OF the
situation. All saloons are closed. Bus
iness has assumed normal conditions.
No further outbreaks are anticipated.
Militia Sent Home.
The authorities have sent home all
outside militia companies excepting
those belonging TO the 5th regiment.
This leaves one full regiment in charge.
A feature of the situation is the scar
city of negroes usually employed about
the city. Telegraph companies are ad-
vertising for white delivery clerks; the
postofice is experiencing great difficult
ty in sending out special delivery mail.
although negro drivers are seen on
many wagons. Domestic servants are
frightened and the exodus of a large
proportion of the negroes from the city
is reported. The authorities believe
they have the situation well in hand.
Little Trouble at Night.
Last night passed without serious
disturbances, although many people
were on the streets until late hour.
The total number of dead is extremely
difficult to estimate. Ten bodies of
those killed in connection with the
riots Saturday night have been prepar-
ed for burial. II is reported on seeming
ly good authority several bodies have
been taken away for burial and it is
equally probable some deaths have not
v-af RI hl
VIII Not Know for Days.
The exact number of dead is not like
ly TO be known for some days. Various
startling rumors of trouble have been
brought to newspaper offices, but nine
tenths of these have been proved abso-
lutely without foundation.
Prisoner Hanged.
The body of Zeb Long, a negro. was
found hanging in the woods early to-
lanta Long was locked in the East
Point Jail charged with disorderly con-
duct. The Jail was broken into short
ly after midnight and Long taken to
his doom.
-Four Assaults on Women.
Atlanta. Ga. Sept. 24.-FOur at
tempts at assault on white women by
negroes within or near the limits of
the city Saturday. wrought up the
white citizens here 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 a dozen others
within the last two months and
brought the climax.
At midnight. Governor Terrell is
sued an order calling out eight COM
panies of the 9Th infantry and one bat
terry of light artillery This order was
not issued until three negroes had
been killed and Is taken to the hospi-
tails. five of whom will die. These in
clude only those cases of which the po-
lice have official knowledge. The local
newspapermen claim the number of
dead is larger.
Mob After Negroes.
The mob began its 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 ruthlessly torn
from the cars or attacked on the
streets In a few cases negroes re-
taliated during the early part of the
night, but after 10 o'clock they were
scarce in public places.
Sunday Fairly Quiet.
Atlanta. Sept 24.-While one more
negro was killed and another fatally
beaten yesterday afternoon, Atlanta
passed fairly quiet Sunday after the
slaughter of the night, in which not
less than a dozen negroes and one
white man were slain and more than a
hundred negroes wounded.
II probably will not be known for
days how many negroes were killed by
the mobs that scattered death during
the night The corpses left in the
streets were carried away by relatives
of the victims and were smuggled out
of the city and buried
Arrested on Suspicion.
The negro killed yesterday was
lynched by a mob on Marietta street.
He was one of two men arrested on
suspicion of being concerned in one of
Saturdays assaults The other man,
who had been partly identified by the
victim of the assault, escaped from the
officers on the way to the Jail. The Of