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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
Monday, akitkmbek ih, i»o«.
IN JUSTICE TO ITSELF—
The Georgian feels bound to say that it is free from any of the
responsibility of inflaming the mob on Saturday night.
It is the general impression that the newspapers are responsible
for a great deal of the suffering and death, because of their “ex
tras” with glaring head lines, etc.
The Georgian printed no extras during the trouble, nor shall
we print any until it is over.
F. L. SEELY, Publisher.
SITUATION
TROOPS
READY
IN HAND;
OFF DUTY;
FOR TROUBLE
2nd Regiment Com-
pa-.ies Return
Home.
Feeling that the situation In now well
In hand, and can be adequately coped
with by the Fifth regiment, the five
companies of the Second regiment were
allowed to return home Monday morn*
Ing. Six hundred of Georgia mate
trftops were on duty Sunday night.
Co. B, Captain Baxter Jones, Macon;
Co. C, Captain W. L. Starr, Macon;
Parnosvllle company, Captain J. Q.
XaMh; Jackson company, Captain Van
McKIbben; GrlfTIn company, Captain
W. H. Beck, all of the Second regiment,
were allowed to depart for their homes.
The Macon companies left at 11 o’clock
Monday morning, and the other three
v 111 get out during the day.
The seven Atlanta companies, to
gether with Rome, Llndale, Marietta
and Cedartown, forming the Fifth regi
ment, were allowed to go off duty for
the day, with Instructions to assemble
at their respective armories nt 6 o’clock
Monday evening.
Colonel Clifford L. Anderson, com
manding, stated that unless there
should be demonstrations of some
character, that the military would not
Ik- assigned to duty Monday night, hut
simply be held in the armories for
emergency.
Will Be Held In Readiness,
Out of town companies will assemble
in armories of the local companies.
C-donel Anderson gave It ns his opinion
that the trouble was all over, nmlJhat
the civil authorities could easily bun
dle the situation. However, to Ineiease
the feeling of security on the part of
the cltlxens, the Fifth regiment will be
held In Instant readiness for anything
that may happen.
The Rome and Llndale companies
did not reach Atlanta until 2:IB Mon
day morning, and went on duty imme
diately at the Intersection of Marietta
and Peachtree streets.
The Atlanta men were almost In a
state of physical collapse from the long
and trying strain of constant duty since
Saturday night, and Colonel Anderson
Justly held that it would be cruelty to
hold them on duty all day Monday
when no cause existed for it.
Officers Exhausted.
Colonel Anderson. Assistant Adjutant
General Scott, Captain Burton Smith,
Inspector General Obear and other At
lanta officers, upon whom the strain of
the ordeal has fallen, looked worn ami
haggard Monday from nearly 36 hours
of duty.
NVlld and unfounded rumors all of
Sunday night came so swiftly into
headquarters that the men were kept
• n the run Investigating them. Prac
tically every report of trouble proved
unfounded, and the exhausting work for
r h* men was without reason. Kxclted
and nervous cltlxens on the outskirts
h*vame frightened without cause In
most Instances.
Cpon Lieutenant Colonel Harry Sil
verman fell the task of seeing that all
°f the military men were properly fed.
Eighteen companies In all have been on
duty, averaging forty men to the com
onel Silverman encountered, through
the negro help falling to report for duty
Sunday and Monday morning, he han
died Hie problem of refreshing the In
ner man admirably. The soldier hoyi
were assigned to eight of the leading
restaurants for their meals, and by de
tailing them in squads all were proper
ly fed.
Companies on Duty.
Officers and companies of the Fifth
regiment thnt have been on duty In
Atlanta since the trouble started Sat
urday night are as follows:
Colonel Clifford L. Anderson, Fifth
regiment, commanding.
Colonel A. J. Scott, nsslstnn adju
tant-general, National Guard of Geor
gia.
Colonel W. G. Obear, Inspector-gen
eral, National Guard of Georgia.
Major V. H. Shearer, Fifth Infantry.
Mnjo. E. E. Pomeroy, Fifth Infantry.
Major H. L Williamson, Fifth in
fantry, Rome.
Major J. W. Duncan, assistant sur
geon, Fifth Infantry.
Major J. B. Gilbert, surgeon,* First
avnlry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Silverman,
assistant commissary-general.
nptnln Button Smith, adjutant.
Fifth Infantry.
Cuptain W. C. Nunnemacher, quar
termaster, Fifth Infnntry.
Company A, Fifth—Captain Oscar
Palmer.
Company B, Fifth—Captain E. B.
Dlshman.
Company D, Fifth—Captain W. T.
Spratt.
Company F, Fifth—Captain Fred
Morris, Marietta.
Company G, Fifth—Captain W. H.
Traywlrk, Cedartown.
Company K, Fifth—Lieutenant C. H.
Mathews.
Fifth—Captain L. D.
INSPIRATION OF THE MAD MOB;
NUMBER OF VICTIMS UNKNOWN
IS NOT YET KNOWNi
THREE POLICEMEN
HURT IN THE RIOTS
Only Seven Corpses of Ne
groes Have Been
Found.
Ill doubtless never be known ex
actly the number of victims of Satur
day night's mobs. The bodies of many
negroes known to have been slain have
disappeared.
So fnr ns has been ascertained to
date, the following Is a list of the dead
and wounded:
Daad.
Henry Welsh, colored, 42 Green
street, porter In the Lelnnd barber shop
Poole, Hollis and McWil
liams All Received
Injuries.
While the wild rioting was nt Its
height Saturday night between 11 and
12 o’clock, three police officers were In
jured In a clash with the muddened
mob: *
They are:
Hergennt Lamar Poole.
Policeman J. A. Hollis.
Policeman E. L. McWilliams.
Officer Hollis was the worst Injured
und hod to be sent to hls home. The
three officers were mounted and at the
In Poa. hlree street. Killed In the bar- „ me o( lh , c | ni<h were trying to dls-
CURSE OF TROUBLE
WAS 4 ATTEMPTS
ON WHITE WOMEN
None Was a Real Case
of Criminal
Assault.
Fifth—Captain W.
Fifth—Captain Barry
Company L,
White.
Company M
Preston.
Company’ I,
Wright, Rome.
Company E—Lieutenant Audley Mar
shall, Llndale.
Troup L, First Cavalry—Governor’s
Horse Guard. s ,
Governor's Light Artillery—Armed
and equipped as Infantry.
From the Second Infantry were the
following officers ami men:
Major J. A. Thomas. Maeon.
Major J. Henry Smith, Griffin.
Major .1. M. Kelley, assistant sur
geon Griffin.
Company B—Captain Baxter Jones,
Macon.
Company C—Captain \N. L. Starr,
Macon. __ . .
Bartlesville Company—Captain J. Q
Nash. . .....
Jackson Company—Captain \nn Mc
KIbben. - . , „
Griffin Company—Captain \\ . H.
Beck.
Aged Lady la Dead.
S|M»ulnl to The Georgian.
Anniston, Ala., Sept. 24.—Mrs. Ellxa-
beth Reeves, widow of the late J. H.
Reeves and one of the oldest and best
known cltlxens of Calhoun county, died
Friday morning at her home near
Weavers Station. She was 88 years of
age and had been In falling health
*tnce the death of her husband seven
months ago.
her shop.
Milton Brown, 34 Greensferry avenue,
i inoffensive negro. Driver of a
sprinkling wagon of the Stocks Coal
’ompany.
Frank Smith, colored, 212 Clark
street. Killed on the Forsyth street
bridge on the Marietta street approach.
Annie Laurie Shepard, colored, 379
West Third street. Shot and killed by
unknown white man in front of her
home.
Cnknown negro man. Killed by an
other negro Sunday afternoon In Thur
mond street.
Cnknown negro man.
Cnknown negro boy 8 or 10 years of
age.
Welsh, Brown and the three ”un-
knowns” died at the hospital.
Woundad.
E. M. Marsh, white, shot through the
neck.
W. H. Rambo, white, scalp wounds.
A. c. Moore, 17 Jullnn street, white,
shot through the leg.
Policeman J.
the heud.
perse a mob In Wall street, which w
smashing windows in the Kimball
house and committing other depreda
tions.
Officer Hollis saw one man ns he
smashed a window, and. reaching over
on hls horse, seized the man in the col
lar. The hitter resisted and Hollis was
Jerked from hls horse. He struck the
ground on his feet and was able to
hold on to hls prisoner. About this
time another white man struck Hollis a
terrlflc blow on the head with a stick,
or some other heavy instrument, daz
ing him. Although stunned, Hollis re
leased hls first prisoner and caught
hold of J. F. Clements, the man who
hit him.
Hergeant Poole and Officer McWil
liams quickly pushed their horses
probably never be known. The wound
ed, whose names are published, were
all taken to the Grady hospital. Four
, of the number, Henry Thrasher, Frank
iTInson, George McElroy and Joseph Ai
„ Hollis, Injured about j ford, were not hurt In the mad charge
Struck with brick or heavy i of the mob Saturday night, but figured
stick. Confined to hls home.
In trouble Sunday night.
only
elr wounds dressed
Malaria Make# Pal# Sickly Childran.
.. ... ... The Old Standard. Grove» Tasteless
ImbV. or something'over 700 turnery I Chill Toni.-, drive* out malaria and
•okllera tn look after. I builds up the system. Sold by all
Considering the heavy handicap Col- dealer# for 2. yeais. Price *0 centa.
In the back and on the leg with bricks i slightly hurt. Imd
and on the shoulder with a plank. Able ] at the hospital and Immediately went
to be on duty. to their home*. No record was kept
rollceman E. I.. McWilliams, struck ! of these cases.
In the head with beer bottle. I Dr. Brewster, superintendent of the
rank Scudder, white, .1,1 Johnson . hospital, staled Monday that a total of
avenue contusions on head. | twenty or thirty wounded had been
Boy Thomas, colored, slabbed. • I given attention at the hospital.
Henry I.eland, colored, badly bruised 1 <'" r P" nt hospital doctors had t.i
Ben Nelson, colored, Injured about i work nearly all night Saturday, giving
the eye attention to pistol and stab wounds
James Davis, colored, stabbed | n I and contusions made by various kinds
U VPr I of weapons. The ambulance was kept
Andrew Holly, colored, Injured about j constantly on the run for several
the face and lip. 1 hours, making trip after trip. The
Henry Thrasher, colored, shot In the horses were not taken out of the am-
IHIkH. j bulance until about S o clock Sunday
Frank Tlnson, colored, shot In the j morning,
alf of the leg. .■—# I . i
George McElroy, colored, stabbed In _ ___ ... _______
(he lung by another negro. LUCAS VARNISH
Joseph Alford, shot In the thigh.
Many rumors are afloat to the effect oiAAflO,
that more negroes were killed and their; oil atalna, enamels, at the
IhhIIcs spirited away, hut only five bod- Q.JJQJJQJA. PAINT
irs ran be found. These are all at the ‘
mult i taking establishment of L. L. Lee j
in Broad afreet.
The exact number of wounded will
GLASS CO.,
40 PEACHTREE.
AND
The immedlato cause of the trouble
was the fact thnt during Saturday aft
ernoon fpur more or less well developed
attempts were made by negroes to as
sault white women In .Atlanta and sub
urbs.
The first attempt was made early In
the afternoon on Mrs. Lizzie (’ash
Chaffin, wife of Henry Chaffin, at
Sugar creek, near the Flat Hhoals roa.d.
The negro was near the house when
Mrs. Chaffin went out In the yard and
refuped to leave when she told him to.
A shot from her husband's gun chang
ed his mind, however, und he took to
the swamps.
At about 7 o’clock a negro knocked
down Mrs. Frank Arnold, of 127 Ju
lian street, as she stepped out of the
back door. A negro whs later captured
and sent 'to Jail In charge of County
Policemen Dunbar and Davis. He has
not bean Identified, but gives no ac
count of himself.
Half «n hour after the attempt at
nssnult on Mrs. Arnold Miss Alma Al
len was grabbed and thrown down by
a negro In the rear of the residence
of her stepfather, Henry Lancaster, at
162 Davis street.
The fourth case was merely a fright
given Mrs. Mattie Holcombe, an old
lady, living nt 275 Magnolia street. She
was about to shut the blinds, when
she discovered n negro looking into
them. She herself later telephoned to
the police station that It was unneces
sary to send an officer, us the negro
had got away.
WILD HOWLS OF MOB
BREAK UP SERVICE
AT WESLEY CHURCH
Frenzied Shouts of Rabble Chasing Black
Man Frighten Women in the
House of Worship.
Services nt the Wesley Memorial
Methodist church, comer Ivy street
und Auburn avenue, were brought to
an unceremonious end Sunday evening
by the shouting of a mob of rioters.
In pursuit of a negro, the mob, con
sisting of some two hundred men and
hoys, raced from Peachtree street to
the corner of Ivy and Auburn avenue
and for some time there remained.
Rev. Dr. R. Frank Fakes, pastor of
Wesley Memorial, was speaking at the
time. HIs voice was almost drowned
out by the noise of the rabble outside,
and with a few words he brought the
MILITIA ESCORTED
CHILDREN TO SCHOOL
An Incident of Monday morning
shows the determination of the authori
ties to cope with the situation with an
Iron hand and to protect life and prop
erty by the most stringent means If
necessary.
A message was received by Captain
Burton Hmlth, adjutant of the Fifth
regiment, that the children w’ho attend
the State Street school were terrorlxed
and were afraid to pass groups of
through the crowd and went to the
rescue of Ilollls. The interference of
the police Infuriated the crowd und it
looked for a lime as though the trouble
might be more serious. During the
melee bricks and rocks were hurled
and Hergeant Poole was struck In the
back ami on the leg. Some unknown
man, armed with a plank, also struck
him across the shoulder, the blows al
most knocking him from the horse.
officer McWilliams was struck n
stunning blow tin the side of the head
i a beer bottle, the blow cutting nn
ugly gash.
The trio of officers finally succeeded
in getting out of the crowd with their
prisoner and he was locked In the po-
•e Mtat/on.
Clements was arraigned Monday
<«|ning before Recorder Broyles and
as bound over to the superior court
on the i-harge of assault with intent to
murder, under bond of f.VOoo, In nddl-
to which he was sentenced to serve
3u days In the city stockade without a
tine.
negroes congregated on Marietta
street. The message said that the
negroes were really In a bad humor and
there was danger of trouble. •
Captain Smith ordered Captain Bar
ry Wright, with a platoon, to go to that
part of the city In the vicinity of the
State Street school Immediately, and
Instructed him to Are If the negroes re
fused to disperse.
The soldiers are doing all they can to
allay the fears of the cltlxens and ev
ery assurance In given that the situa
tion Is under complete control.
SNATCHING OF PURSE
STARTED THE TROUBLE
The beginning of the riot was the
snatching of a pocket-book by a negro
at the corner of Decatur and Peachtree
streets Saturday evening. The act in
Itself was not of extraordinary nature,
but, coming as It did after the report
of four attempted assaults of the aft
ernoon ami evening, It Ared the crowd
In the streets.
This trouble came about 9 o’clock.
A white woman wan ntandlng In front
of Goodrum'n, waiting for a car, when
a burly negro brushed against her and
nt the same time snatched from her
hand her purse. A white man. stand
ing on the sidewalk, saw the act and
grappled with black.
Two other negroes came to the black
man's assistance, und a number of
hlte men standing on the corner
ished to the help of the one who had
.rabbed the pickpocket.
The mob then gathered, and All was
contusion, ft la not known whether the
negro escaped.
The next move was made a few min
utes later when a negro messenger boy
was seen running across the street.
The crowd broke and went In hot pur
suit. The negro was lost in the maze
of dives on Dtwatur street, and when
theatera were letting out.
The patrons of the Bijou and the El
dorado, seeing a crowd, made their
way to Peachtree and Decatur. Short
ly afterwards the patrons of the Grand,
who were met by an extra with star
tling headlines, made their way toward
the center of the city. The riot was In
full blast.
According to Chief Joyner there
were upward of 4,000 people In the
center of the city when the hoee was
turned on the crowd.
the mob returned from the chase the rested at Vllna.
\
REI) GUARD CHIEF
HAS BEEN ARRESTED
SI. Petersburg, Sept. 24.—Report#
from Bortssogllebsk today bring new*
of the attempted H**a#«lnation of Chief
of Police Tomushad. He was terribly
wounded, but not killed. Hi* wire and
guard# were also Injured. Thf
would-be B*aaa#lne have not been nr-
re.ted.
Thirty-eight member# of the revolu
tionary military league have been # r -
•ervlcee to an end.
The militia was notified. Two com-
panle# promptly responded and cleared
the atreeta.
There were a number of women In
attendance at the services, which made
the affair especially regretable.
The soldier boys remained In the
vicinity of the church until all the
worehlppers had departed for their
homes.
Because of the chaotic state of
things a number of the churches were
closed during the evening. The an
nouncement that there would be no
services sftsr nightfall was made In
the morning.