People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — The Alabama Race War. [ARTICLE]

The Alabama Race War.

Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 1. —The sheriff's posse returned from Brookside, the scene of Tuesday night’s face riot, yesterday, bringing with them ten negro rioters who had been arrested, two having been rescued from the enraged white miners after ropes had been placed about their necks preparatory to hanging them. One woman is among the rioters. Half a dozen women took part in the riot. All is quiet now.