Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-11-23
REIGN Of Terror IN
WINSTON SALEM

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Many Others Arc Injured in Riot at
Winston Salem.
ENTER STORES TO SECURE GUNS
Fire Companies Called Out and
Drcnch Marchers, Which Pre-
cipitates Pitched Battle.
Winston Salem, N. c., November II
AT least five persons arc known to
have been killed and probably a score
of others injured several seriously in
II riot here tonight, which resulted
from tho efforts of Il mob of several
thousand white men to storm the city
Jail and lynch a Negro accused Of
shooting j. Il. Childrcss and Sheriff
Flynt, and attacking Mrs Childrcss
last night.
Late tonight firing still was going
on III different parts of the city, tho
mob finally having broken into small
groups. Efforts OF the home guard
and the police to restore order were
crnor Beckett was asked to intervene.
He ordered home guards here from
Greensboro and arranged to have a
company OF regular soldiers sent from
Camp Polk, near Raleigh.
Tho known dead are:
Rachel Levi young woman by
stander and Robert Young Il fireman
The more seriously injured include:
Margaret George, Linwood Hecler,
John laumpler, citizens and Frank
OBrien and II. II. Hawlcy members
of the home guard; Charles White,
Jules Smith, Cecil Alley and j. j.
Adams,
{ Rachel Levi, n young woman by
standcr was shot through tho lung,
and Robert Young, fireman also was
shot.
Five Of the more seriously injured
including two members of the home
guard, were taken to hospitals, but
many others were treated at their
homes. The total number of injured
was not known and the police would
not even hazard an estimate.
WOUND NEGRO, SHOOTING
INTO THE BARRED CELL.
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The mob first formed this afternoon
about $3.50 o'clock and stormcd the
Jail. Three shots were fired and the
Negro accused of shooting the two
mon and attacking Mrs. Childrcss was
seriously wounded, while white
prisoner named Trngg also was hit in
the arm by Il stray bullet.
After some difficulty the police sue
cccdcd In clearing tho crowd out OF
tho building, and then tho Mayor call
ed out the home guards. Quiet reign
cd for time, but later tho report
went around that the Negro shot was
not tho man that had been sought
BY nightfall the mob had reformed
and started marching to the Jail
which was surrounded by homo
guards.
Hardware stores were broken into
and rcvolycrs, shotguns and other
weapons and ammunition taken. AS
the mob marched it increased in size,
and when its objective wac reached it
numbered several thousand. The
Mayor sought to address the crowd,
but could not be heard. In the mean
time fire companies had arrived and
when the mob broke for the Jail the
fircmen turned water on them.
MEMBERS OF HOME, GUARDS
THROWN DOWN STAIRWAY.
Firing Immediately followed and
Young was shot dead. a bullet hit
7 ,uhn
The home guards answered the vol.
ley but the mob quickly overpowered
them and went into tho Jail. Two
members of the guard were badly
hurt by being thrown bodily down a
stairway which they were guarding.
Apparently the mob did not find the
Negro ii sought, for no more Of the
prisoners were fired upon. After an
hour or more the mob loft the Jail
and started marching through the
business section Of the town. Graudal
ly it broke into groups and for
a time 1t was feared that there would
DC race riot as sOmo Of the groups
headed for the Negro quarter. Late
tonight however there had been no
clash between the whites and blacks
A telephone message was received
at midnight that special train left
charlotte before midnight with 175
troopers from Camp Greene on board
for service in connection with the
riot conditions here. The troops were
ordered to Winston-Salem by Colonel
a. G. Mac0mb, at the request of
Mayor r W. Correll.