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MONPAY, FFTTnSinKK 21. 190C.
IHK ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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 IN HAND;
TROOPS OFF DUTY;
READY FOR TROUBLE
INSPIRATION OF THE MAD MOB;
NUMBER OF VICTIMS UNKNOWN
2nd Regiment Com
panies Return
Home.
Feeling that the situation Is now well
In hand, and tan be adequately roped
with by the Fifth regiment, the five
companies of the Second regiment were^
allowed to return-home Monday morn-
lag. , Six hundred of Georgia state
troops were on duty Sunday night.
Co. B, Captain Baxter Jones, Macon;
Co. <-’, Captain \V. L. Starr, Mucon;
Bartlesville company, Cnptnln J. Q.
Nash; Jackson company, Captain Van
McKIbben; Griffin company. Captain
w. H. Beck, all of the Second regiment,
were allowed to depart, for their homes.
The Macon companies left at It o'clock
Monday morning, ami the other three
will get out during the day.
The seven Atlanta companies, to
gether with Rome, Llndale, Marietta
and Cednrtown, forming the Fifth regi
ment. were allowed to go off duty for
the day, with Instructions to assemble
at their respective armories at 6 o clock
Monday evening.
Colonel Clifford L. Anderson, com
manding, stated that unless there
should be demonstratli ns of some
character, that the military would not
be assigned to duty Monday night, but
simply be held in the armories for
emergency.
Will Be Held In Readineee.
Out of town companies will assemble
In armories of the local companies.
Colonel Anderson gave It ns his opinion
that the trouble was nil over, and that
the civil authorities could e:tsll\ han
dle the situation. However, to Increase
the feeling of security on the part of
the cltlxens. the Fifth regiment will be
held In Instant readiness tor an> thing
th Thr l Rome iP aml t.lndnle companies
did not reach Atlanta until -.15 Mon
day morning, and went on d »W
dlately at the Intersection of Marietta
and Peachtree streets. . „
Tbs'Atlanta men were almost In a
state of physical collapse from the long
and trying strain of constant duty since
Saturday night, and Colonel
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
deneral Scott, Captain Burton Smith,
Inspector General Obear and other At
lanta officers, upon whom the strain of
the ordeal has fallen, looked worn and
haggard Monday from nearly 38 hours
of duty. . „
Wild and unfounded rumors all of
Sunday night came so swiftly Into
headquarters that the men were kept
on the run Investigating them. Prac-
>nm»n fell th«» task of seeing that all
the military men were properly fed.
Ighteen companies In all have been on
ity, averaging forty men to the com-
my, or something over min«rv
Idler* to look after.
onel Silverman encountered, through
the negro help falling to report for duty
~ Sunday and Monday morning, he han
died the problem of refreshing the In
ner man admirably. The soldier bnyu
were assigned to eight of the lending
restaurants for their menls, and by de
tailing them in squads nil were proper
ly fed.
Companies on Duty.
Ofllcers and companies of the Fifth
regiment that have been on duty ii
Atlanta since the trouble sturted Sat
urday night are a* follows:
Colonel Clifford L. Anderson, Fifth
‘glment, commanding.
Colonel A. J. Scott, nssistan odju
tant-general. National Guard of Geor
gia.
Colonel W. O. Obear. Inspector-gen
eral, National Guard of Georgia.
Major V. H. Shearer, Fifth Infnntry
Majo. K. K. Pomeroy, Fifth Infnntry.
Major K. L. Williamson, Fifth In
fantry, Rome.
Major J. \V. Duncan, assistant sur
geon, Fifth Infantry.
Major J. B. Gilbert, surgeon, First
cavalry.
Lieutenant-(Colonel Harry Silverman,
assistant commissary-general.
Captain Burton Smith, adjutant,
Fifth Infantry.
Captain W. C. Nunnetnacher, quar
termaster, Fifth Infnntry.
Company A, Fifth-Captain Oscar
Palmer.
Company B, Fifth—Captain K.
Dtshman.
Company D, Fifth—Captain W.
Spratt. j _
Company F, Fifth—Captain Fred
Mortis, Marietta.
Company G. Fifth—Captain W. H.
Travwlrk, Cednrtown.
Company Fifth—Lieutenant C. H.
Mathews. ' _
Company L, Fifth—Captain L. D.
" Company M, Fifth—Captain ,\V. J.
^Company I, Fifth—Captain Barry
Wright. Rome.
Company E—Lieutenant Audley Mar
shall. Llmiale.
Troup I* First Cavalry—Governor’s
Horse Guard.
Governor's Light Artillery—Armed
and equipped ns Infantry.
From the Second Infantry were the
following officers and men:
Major J. A. Thomas. Macon.
Major J. Henry Smith, Griffin.
Major J. M. Kelley, assistant sur
geon Griffin. _ _
Company B—Captain Baxter Jones.
Macon. „ . , ....
Company C—captain \\. I- Starr,
Macon. _ . . T
HarnesvUle Company—Captain J. Q.
**Jackson Company—Captain Inn Mc
KIbben. _ . . ... „
Griffin Company—< aptaln >\ . «•
Beck.
Aged Lady I* Dead.
Simh'I.iI tn The Georgina.
Anniston, Ala., Sept,
belli Reeves, widow of the late
the run Investigating mem. . in ,j one of the oldest and best
ally every report of trouble proved citizens of Calhoun county, died
.founded, and the exhausting work for .. ., m , )rn | n g at her home near
le men waa without reaxon. Excited station. She wax 88 years of
the outskirts ' . , m( | Oocn In falling health
r| nervous cltiaens on the outskirts ;| n ,i lull) been In falling health
came frightened without cause In “■ cf> , h<1 <ie a t Ii of her husband seven
tst Instances. months ago
tpon Lieutenant Colonel IIarr> Rll-
Malarla Makes Pals Sickly Children.
o tne com- The Old Standard. Grove s Tasteless
TOO hungry j Chill Tonic, drives out malaria und
filer. to look ofter. 'builds up
Jonslderln* the heavy handicap Col- dealers for 2. leara.
NUMBER OF SLAIN
T,mr E
HURT IN THE RIOTS
Only Seven Corpses of Ne
groes Have Been
Found.
It will 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 far as has been ascertained to
date, the following Is a list of the dead
and wounded:
Dead.
Henry Welsh, colored. 42 Green
street, isirter In the I.eland bnrber shop
In Peachtree street. Killed In the bar
ber shop.
Milton Brown, 34 Greensferry avenue,
...l Inoffensive negro. Driver of n
sprinkling wagon of the Stocks Coal
Company.
Frank Smith, colored, 212 Clark
street. Killed on the Forsyth street
bridge on the Marietta street approach.
Annie I.aurle Shepard, colored, 379
West Third street. Shot and killed by
unknown white man In front of her
home.
I'nknown negro man. Killed by an
other negro Sunday afternoon In Thur
mond street.
Unknown negro man.
Unknown negro boy 8 or 10 years of
Welsh, Brown and the three "un
knowns" died at the hospital.
Wounded.
E. M. Marsh, white, shot through the
neck.
"vf H Ram no, white, scnlp wounds,
e, 17 Julian street,
white,
A. C. Moore,
shot through the leg. ,
Policeman J. A. Hollis, injured about
the head. Struck with brick or heavy j
stick. Confined to his home.
Police Sergeant Lamar Poole, atruck j
In the back and on the leg with bricks!
and on the shoulder with a plank. Able ,
to he on duty.
Policeman E. L. McWilliams, struck;
In the head with beer bottle |
Frank Seudder, white, 33 Johnson
avenue contusions on head.
Roy Thomas, colored, stabbed.
Henrv I-elsnd, colored, badly bruised.
Ren Nelson, colored. Injured about
,h Jnmes Davis, colored, stabbed In
'Andrew Holly, colored, Injured obout
the face and Up-
Henry Thrasher, colored, shot in the
,h Krank Tlnson, colored, shot in the
•alf of the leg.
George McElroy. colored, stablied In
the lung by another negro.
Joseph Alford, shot in the thigh.
Munv rumors are alloat to the effect
that more negroes were killed and their
bodies spirited away, but only five bod-
trs i nn lie found. These are all nt the
undertaking establishment of L. L. Lee
Broad street.
The exact number of wounded will
Poole, Hollis and McWil
liams All Received
Injuries.
While the wild rioting wan at It*
height Saturday night between II and
12 o'clock, three police officer* were In
jured In a clash with the maddened
mob:
They are:
Sergeant Lamar Poole.
Policeman J. A. Hollis.
Policeman E. L. McWilliams.
Officer Hollis was the worst Injured
and had to be sent to his home. The
three officers were mounted and at the
tjme of the clash were trying to dls
perse a mob In Wall street, which was
smashing windows In the Kimball
house and committing other depreda
tlons.
Officer Hollis saw one man as hi
smashed a window, and, reaching over
on his horse, seized the man In the col*
The latter resisted and Hollis was
Jerked from his horse. He struck the
ground on his feet nnd was able to
hold on to his prisoner. About this
time another white man struck Hollis «i
terrific blow on the head with u stick,
or some other heavy Instrument, daz
ing him. Although stunned, Hollis re
leased his first prisoner und caught
hold of J. F. Clements, the man who
hit hltn.
Sergeant Poole and Officer McWil
liams quickly pushed their horses
CAUSE OF TROUBLE
WAS 4 ATTEMPTS
ON WHITE WOMEN
WILD HOWLS OF MOB
BREAK UP SERVICE
AT WESLEY CHURCH
None Was a* Real Case
of Criminal
Assault.
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
Tlnson, George McElroy and Joseph Al
ford, were not hurt In the mad charge
of the tnob Saturday night, but figured
in trouble Sunday night.
Numbers of people, who were only
slightly hurt, had their wounds dressed
at the hospital and Immediately went
to their homes. No record was kept
of these cases.
Dr. Brewster, superintendent of the
hospital, stated Monday that a total of
twenty or thirty wounded had been
given attention at the hospital.
The corps of hospital doctors had to
work nearly nil night Saturday, giving
attention to pistol and stab wounds
and contusions made by various kinds
of weapons. The ambulance was kept
constantly on the run for several
hours, making trip after trip. The
horses were not taken out of the am
bulance until about 3 o’clock Hunday
morning.
LUCAS VARNISH
STAINS,
Oil stains, enamels, at the
GEORGIA PAINT
GLASS CO.,
10 PEACHTREE.
The Immediate cajise of the trouble
was the fact that during Saturday aft
ernoon four 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 Fash
Chaffin, wife of Henry Chaffin, at
Sugar creek, near the Flat Shoals road.
The negro was near the house when
Mrs. Chaffin went out In the yard and
refused to leave when she told hint to.
A shot from her husband’* gun chang
ed his mind, however, and he took to
the swamps.
At about 7 o'clock a negro knocked
down Mrs. Frank Arnold, of 127 Ju
lian street, ns she stepped out of the
back door. A negro was later captured
and sent to Jail In charge of County
Policemen Dunbar nnd Davis. He has
not bean Identified, but gives no ac
count of himself.
Half an hour after the attempt nt
assault on Mrs. Arnold Miss Alma Al
len was grabbed nnd thrown down by
a negro In the rear of the residence
of her stepfather, Henry I*nncaster. at
162 Davis street.
The fourth case was merely a fright
given Mrs. Mattie Holcombe, an old
lady, living ut 275 Magnolia street. She
was about to shut the blinds, when
she discovered a negro looking Into
them. She herself later telephoned to
*he police station that It was unneces
sary to send an officer, as the negrp
had got away.
Frenzied Shouts of Rabble Chasing Black
Man Frighten Women in the
House of Worship.
Services at the Wesley Memorial
Methodiat church, corner Ivy street
and 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
boys, raced from Peachtree street to
the corner of Ivy and Auburn avenue
and for some time there remained.
Rev. Dr. R. Frank KAkes, pastor of
Wesley Memorial, was speaking at the
time. His voice was almost drow’ned
out by the noise of the rabble outside,
and with a few words he brought the
services to an end.
The militia was notified. Two com
panies promptly responded and cleared
the streets.
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
worshippers had departed for theli
homes.
Because of the chaotlo state of
things a number of the churches were
closed during the evening. The an
nouncement that there would be no
services after nightfall was made In
the morning.
MILITIA ESCORTED
CHILDREN TO SCHOOL
An Inclilent of Monday moraine
shows the determination of the authori
ties to rope with the situation with an
Iron hand und to protect life and prop
erty hy the moBt stringent means If
necessary.
A message was received by Captain
Burton Smith, adjutnnt of the Fifth
regiment, thnt the children who attend
the State Street school were terrorised
and were afraid to pass groups of
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 Bnr-
ry Wright, with a platoon, to go to that
part of the city tn the vicinity of the
State Street school Immediately, and
Instructed him to fire If the negroes re
fused to disperse.
The soldiers are doing all they can to
allay the feara of the cltlxens and ev-
try assurance la given that the situa
tion la under complete control.
AND
through the crowd and went to the
rescue of Hollis. The Interference of
the police Infuriated the crowd and It
looked for a time ns though the trouble
might be more serious. During the
melee bricks nnd rocks were hurled
and Hergennt Poole was struck In the
back and on the leg. Home unknown
man, armed with a plank, also struck
him across the shoulder, the blows al
most knocking him from the horse.
>fficer McWilliams was struck a
stunning blow i>n the side of the head
with u beer bottle, the blow cutting an
ugly gash.
The trio of officers finally succeeded
In getting out of the crowd with their
prisoner ami he was locked In the po-
statlon.
lenient* was arraigned Monday
morning before Recorder Broyles and
was bound over to the superior court
on the charge of assault with Intent to
murder, undier bond of $5,000, In addi
tion to which he was sentenced to serve
30 days In the city stockade without a
line.
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 ns It did after the report
of four attempted nssaults of the aft
ernoon nnd evening, It fired the crowd
In the streets.
This trouble came about 9 o'clock.
A white woman waa standing in front
of Good rum's, waiting for n car. when
a burly negro brushed against her and
nt the xnme time snatched from her
hand her purse. A white man, stand
ing un the sidewalk, saw the act and
grappled with black.
Two other negroes came to the black
man's assistance, and a number of
white men standing on the earner
rushed to the help of the one who had
grubbed the pickpocket.
The mob then gathered, and all was
confusion. It Is not known wh. tiler the
negro escaped.
The next move was made a few min
utes Inter 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 mate
of dives on Levatur street, and when
the mob returned froiu the chase the
theaters 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 atar-
tllng headlines, made their way toward
the center of the city. Tbe riot was tn
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.
RED GUARD CHIEF
HAS BEEN ARRESTED
St. Petersburg, Sept. 24.—Reports
front. Borlssogllebsk today bring nsws
of the attempted asaasslnatlon of Chief
of Police Tomuahad. He was terribly
wounded, but not killed. Ills wife and
two guards were also Injur.-d. The
would-be assaselns have not been ar
rested.
Thirty-eight members of the revolu
tionary military league haw been ar
rested at Vilna.