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HOT PERMITTED TO WAIT OH ELKSAT LINTON, I HD.Imported Colored Walter* from Terre H*ate Forced to Leave the Mining Town In n Horry.• —NO VIOLENCE WAS OFFEEEE ♦-NEGROES PLACED IS A WAGON AMID CHEERS OF TWO THOUSAND,♦ ■ ■ —Then Driven In the Direction of Vigo County—Quiet Restored In Short Time.Special to the Indianapolis Journal.LINTON. Ind., July 6.—The race hatredepidemic seems to be spreading. This city had a violent attack of the prevailing disease to-night, and if the sentiment displayed by a crowd of 2.000 people is evidence of the real feeling of the city negroes hereafter will shun Linton. There was no serious rioting or violence, the crowd merely driving a number of imported colored waiters out of the city simply because they were colored.A lodge of Elks was organized here this evening and the town was tilled with visiting members of the order from Terre Haute, Vincennes. Bedford, Bloomington and other neighboring cities. The hosts of the visitors desired to make things as pleasant as possible for their brothers, and also hoped to show them that they knew how to spread a feast. With this end in view a special caterer was engaged at Terre Haute to prepare the banquet that was to be one of the features of the programme this evening.The Terre Haute caterer brought several colored waiters with him. This is one- of the* cities In which no negro Is allowed.and when the caterer and his assistantsarrived on the scene it was only a short time until there were street-corner consultations over what was to be done with the colored men who had innocently beenbrought to the city. Discussion of the question was not confined to a few' radical negro haters, but it became general, and by nightfall the streets were filled with 2.000 peopleand excitement was at a high pitch. Selfdelegated leaders addressed the throng that rapidly Increased in size and a vote wastaken as to what should be done about asking the colored men to leave. The slogan of the crowd was Peace If possible, but forceif necessary.A committee was appointed to wait on the caterer and taavo the colored men leave at once. The waiters needed no urging to leave, for the crowd seemed to mean business. A covered wagon was secured with little delay and the luckless negroes were driven post haste in the direction of the city on the .banks of the Wabash, while the crowd cheered. The people soon dispersed and the town assumed it* customary quiet.Although the affair somewhat marred the pleasure of the gathering of the Elks, the work proceeded as if nothing had happened. .Vhile the streets were filled with hundredsof people, it is said that there were manyin the crowd who did not approve of the deportation, but would not do anything tostop it.An Associated Press dispatch says: The appearance of eight Terre Haute negroes In Liuton to-day caused u demonstration, in which the men narrowly escaped death.Alex. Sanderson, a Terre Haute caterer.was employed to serve the banquet at theinstitution of a new lodge of the Elks. He took his cook and waiters with him. and while the lodge work in thlt; hall was going cn several hundred miners assembled in the street and threatened to dynamite the hall unless the negroes were sent out of town. The eight colored men were hurried into a cab and driven to Jasonvllle, where they were put on the train for Terre Haute.Six policemen hung on the carriage andbeat back the crowd while the negroes weredriving out of town.**
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The Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Tue, Jul 07, 1903
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