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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.