The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-24

c.,.rnor Places city Under Martial Law
and CalIs for q Thousand More Soldiers
IN Maintain Order Hate Of theW whites
Turned Against All Negroes Regardless
n, Their innocence or Standing Load
ing citizens Express sorrow Because
Ot AtIanta's Disgrace, but Have No
Regret for the Murder OF Black Men
incidents Of rare Mob brutality.
ATLANTA, Ca; Sept. 2S.-Barring the
,vnchins OF a negro in Marietta street
sborpt 5 O'Clock this afternoon who was
sospected Of assaulting n Of four white
women on Saturday Atlanta passed a
fairly Quiet Sunday. The negro lynched
was in custody and on his way to jail when
no was taken from the officers by a dozen
men and shot to death in the street.
After the mob had finished its work IL
was discovered that In innocent man had
baen done to death. Two negroes had
been arrested on suspicion OF being con-
cerned in the assault on Mrs. Arnold. The
Woman could not identify either OF them
hut said she thought one who called himself
Jack Murray was the a She made no
charge against Henry Moore, the other
neglo.
The officers started to Jail with both
negroes, bit on the way Jack Murray,
who was suspected by Mrs. Arnold, escaped.
The officers continued with Jack Moore.
On Marietta street some one raised the
CIV that the officers had Mrs. ArnOld's
a~ssailant. Almost instantly a crowd sur
rounded the officers, took the negro and
riddled him. The tragedy was witnessed
BY many people, among them children
playing in the street.
Gov. Terrell having placed the city prac-
tcally under martial law there was no
general resumption Of negro hunting by
white mobs, which last night resulted In
the death Of twelve negroes and two white
men and the w~ounding Of fully q hundred
negroes and half as many whites.
1t was 4 O'Clock this morning before a
semblanoe Of order was restored in the
city. At ? o'clock Gov. Terrell ordered
out all the State troops in the city and
placed them in charge Of Col. Clifford Ander-
son. As soon as Col. Anderson could get
into touch with his subordinates he dis
tnbuted squads over the city, placing
them at strategic points. and in O short
while the situation was greatly improved.
A heavy rain, which began at 3 o'clock
and continued for nearly two hours, was
probably more effective in ~subduing the
mob and sending its members to cover
than even the presence Of the State troops.
The Southern mob, as a rule. when after
negroes, cares very little for local soldiery.
The mob members believe that in their
attacks on negroes they have the silent
sympathy Of the soldiers, and the view OF
the mob is not far wrong.
The presence OF a thousand soldiers scat
tered over Atlanta in squads ranging from
twelve to fifty, according to the impor-
lance Of the location, ave the city a mill
tary air that it has worn on no Sabbath
since Sherman was laundering at its gates
back in the eos.
A disturbance was caused about 8 o'clock
w WAgA N LIVELY oPHO@AO~ "a
Marietta street near the United States
Building with a repeating rife. In Ave
minutes he was surrounded by a CROWD OF
white men, who seized the rife and
used It to club the negro so that he was
sent to the hospital. Fifty yards away was
grouped q patrol Of twenty State guards
men.
A black face to-day has been a rarity In
the streets. Ordinarily n sees about as
many negroes as whites, but the stern ex-
perience Of last night had It's effect on the
negroes and they remained at their homes.
Practically every home In Atlanta lacked
Ns servants this morning, the negroes beng
afraid to venture through the streets to
reach the places where they were en-
plOyed.
Women in Peachtree street, the fashion,
aUe residence part Of the city, who have
not touched a culinary utensil In years
prepared meals for their families to-day
me hotels were practically without se r
wants and not a negro bootblack nor a news
10Y was TO be seen in the streets.
That the negroes are thoroughly scared
hevidenced by the fact that they are Snug
ghng their dead into the country and giving
mem private interment, being afraid TO take
'e corpses openly through the city les
some indignity be provoked. Many Of the
wounded negroes have been secretly re-
moved from the city.
The outbreak last night was against the
negro race n was marked by all the
tavagery which accompanies a racial erup-
non Russians numbering Jews in Odessa
were not more cruel than the Atlanta mob.
Ouharily the Southern mob goes after
ONE particular negro and after furnishing
nm washes its hands and becomes re-
sPectable' But last night the mob was
"Uerall negroes because they were negroes.
thirteen white women nave been attacked
ynegroes in Atlanta in two months. Four
" tnese women were assaulted Saturday
evening, Only n Of these assailants
aSa been caught and lynchcd. The temper
~s whites bad been terribly strained