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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.