Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-24
TROOPS ARE RUSHED TO
PREVENT BLOODY RIOT
Negroes Are Reported to Have
Cut Wires and Trouble
Is Probable.

SELMA, Ala, Dec. A.-Lieutenant Colo
mel Carter, in command of a battalion
of rs men. made up from the Selma COM
panies Of the state militia, left here al 2
O'Clock this afternoon for Magnolia, the
scene of the race troubles yesterday.
It is reported the negroes are In bad
mood again today and that telegraph
and telephone lines are being cut
Reports received here today from Gas
tonbura. about eight miles from the
scene OF the trouble and the nearest
point that could be reached, stated thai
lighting was likely to break out at any
moment, though there had been no Vlo-
lence during the day.
II is stated that for several months
the whites and blacks Of the Masnona
neighborhood have been having trouble
which eliminated in the killing OF young
Lewis last Saturday. The negroes, II Is
stated, have been arming themselves Ior
weeks but this was unknown to the white
people until the hghting yesterday.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. A.-Fol-
lowing the shooting of four white men
and the burning of Clinton Montgomery
a negro, at Lamison, Monday, posses
are in pursuit of VIII Montgomery, the
fourth negro implicated in the murder OF
Algernon Lewis on Saturday. Sherln
Grant, who went to Linden yesterday
with the two negroes captured. reached
home early today and Joined IN the
chase.
A long distance telephone message says
that the feeling is so high that the ne
gro will almost certainly be lyncneo II
caught.
Earnest slade, one of the men shot in
the attempt to dislodge Clint Montgom-
ery before he was burned, is yet alive,
but with his eyes and teeth shot out and
his face mangled, he is an ever-present
incentive to his friends to kill every ne
gro implicated in the trouble, and the an
ger increases with his approach to
death.
Neither of the other three men shot are
seriously injured.
OFFICIAL TO PROBE.
Governor Conner today wired Lieut. Coz
]. Z. Crowder, Of the Second regiment
Selma. to go at once to Lamison, the
scene Of the negro riot, for the purpose Oh
ascertaining whether or not the troops
should he sent to the scene. Lieutenant
CooneI Crowder, accompanied by an aide
Is now en- route, and will report before
o'clock this afternoon.
Sheriff Grant previously requested
troops.
Brister and Shelly Montgomery, broth
ers of the burned negro, barely escaped
Iynching early yesterday morning when
the sheriff of Marengo county captured
them and eluded the man hunters, taxi
ing them to the county jail at Linden.
Search is being continued for VIII
MONTGOMERY, another of the four brothers
charged with the brutal murder late Sat
urday night Of Algernon Lewis, young
white man, which crime precipitated the
trouble today.
Yesterday afternoon Clint Montgomery
and several other negroes were found
barricaded in a house, which was soon
surrounded by a determined body of
whites. Fearing for their lives Montgom-
ery's companions deserted him and sur
rendered to the posse.
FIRES ON POSSE
Montgomery fastened the door after de-
flying the men to attempt to get him. One
of his negro companions was then forced
building was enveloped in flames Mont
gomery threw open window and opened
fire with telling effect upon the posse
with a magazine shotgun.
Ernest Slade fell MORALLY wounded, his
face and body filled with shot.
n. @. Carlton, Tom Shields and William
Lindsey were also wounded, though not
seriously.
A fusiIlade of shots struck Montgom-
cry as he was attempting to leave the
house, his body being riddled and then
allowed to be consumed In the burning
building.