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discharge of his pistol in his own hands, and afterwards died.

About this time the police fired upon unoffending negroes remote from the riotous quarter.

Colored soldiers with whom the police first had trouble had returned in the meantime to Fort Pickering. The police was soon reinforced and commenced firing on the colored people men women and children - in that locality killing and wounding several.

Shortly after, the City Recorder (John C. Creighton) arrived upon the ground (Corner of Causey and Vance Streets) and in a speech which received three hearty cheers, from the crowd there assembled, councilled and urged the whites to arm and kill every negro and drive the last one from the City. Then during this night the negroes were hunted down by the police, firemen, and other white citizens, shot assaulted, robbed, and in many instances their houses searched under the pretense of hunting for concealed arms, plundered and then set on fire, during which no resistance so far as we can learn was offered by the negroes.

A white man by the name of Dunn a fireman was shot and killed by another white man through mistake (Reference is here made to accompanying affidavit mkd "B")

During the morning of the 2nd inst (Wednesday) everything was perfectly quiet in the District of the disturbances of the previous day.