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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11
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chur bombing “Four dead.
Two shootings. Two more dead.
Three fires. ,
grocery at. Fourth “Street and
Rocks: ‘and bricks. thrown at ears and people Gun: : 10th Avene Nocth,” ‘a store ‘at.
Smashed glass. Injuries, injuries, Inpubias. “" 985, ‘Third Street North, at 1¢th
ngham was a terrified city | -Mr. and Mrs. Ralpl ., ot Avenue and 24th Street’and 16th.
May, « ‘the measure of tis f dge Road, are treated and_ Street" “and “th Avenile, North,;
lected tersely, factually, | con released for -Superticial cuts” ‘at and, ‘at a supermarket at “Lith,
antly by ‘the police radio, _ - ‘«\East End Hospital’ Ritchie says , ‘Avenue and Sixth Street North.
“they were ambushed by a’ shot- > | “Rock. éails canie™, From” “1609
‘gun as they drove on the Hult oath St. SW, near. ft Eimwood
-|man- Tarrant, Road, * one:} alt, Chapel, 26th Street id * Ciair-
xteenth Street Baptist Shure ie west of ‘Huftman, “er57 iment Avenue, Bight - we ‘and
id been bombed. ot | Negro Bernard Talley, 12, has | Graymont, 985 Third St. North,
: Nat until 2:40 a.m, Monday a gunshot wound dressed at Hil- ‘10th. Avenue Southwest, Third
j as a calming word passed over man Emergency, and is re- ' Avenue and 18th. Street - “South,
e radio: “Tell 43 to go to sleep. Jeased. He lives at 326 Second | and dozens ol of” other areas. -
shields. * ome
.. Windows are splintered ‘at a
a
THE TERROR STRUCK at |
a.m., with the call that.
ad or 4 hours and 18 minutes it
‘bble in its awfulness.
-¢—-WHITES HIT by. rocks and
bricks; taken to University Hos-
pital.
mergency quarters there are
fa a nightmare with the dead .
‘and injured Negroes ‘from. the:
‘church when the new- vietims i
i begin arriving, i
Mrs. ‘Helon Salter, $4, is ad. :
Titted‘ with a head concussion
and lacerations, A. thrown brick’
hit her inside a car. Her address:
fs 150 Brook Lane Drive.’.
bruise and released,
MRS. POLLY ALLEN: “poney.
ooning from Chicage, with her;
husband, Michael, is
rock-woutt@and also releaged..
fold a story unreal and Tn LACORS OF
have
dressed
at hospitals tbroughout
On. wy rat
“pounding the: “Me:
ay ai
P87-04p.m., avons ee and ‘Sst,
Steoco-Besley, vacant, hodige. ss
Sea
[SONS mingx_~eainids
the city,
The hectic afternoo
—A Negr. man is ‘shot,
. 800. block . of | 26th Street; ‘the |
police radio’ says. He. is James
Robinson, 16. He is ‘dead on ar-
rival. at University Hospital, He
was: throwing - Tock. and | Fan.
from police.
A NEGRO BOY, 13,
y Now, night, | ig:
The fires. start. oe :
epine’ and”
toon dg, Tadic af 2; 40.
‘OTHER, PER-/ KING : arrives ‘by pate ‘about, 9°
the: “tadio'. “follows
movements ‘of a caravan com-
ing into town. “at a high rate. of
fspeed.” 0 oe GP p een
Another convoy ot. cars, “pear.
th fing out-of-state licenses,’ heads
| toward Birmingham on Dv. 8.31
North: bout ; 10:36 ?p.m.;
troopers move to check ‘them :
Time moves. toward midnight,
and gradually . the . ‘Tadio ° grows
more ‘quief,--more routine. yee
“Officers © check “> én -
“armed |
whites’ and ‘Negroes in: various
is shot
TAEAS to. ‘death ‘ on Sandusky Road,
James R. Slimp, 51, 329 25th epee police radio says. 2
St. SW, is treated for a ‘brick: shooting reportedly was done by’ .
uz. two white boys . on a red motor:
scooter. -
Ware, —
neighborhogds.,
“Gunfire 18 report
juries,” coe at i =
PTt ig” now Mon morning. -
Most. of the. city.” tis uneasily.
ell 43 to “go. to: sleep," says‘
wat ar
. body... else has,"
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newspaper, cily and state.)
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