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Show THREE NEGROES KILLED IN BATTLE WITH WHITES CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 8 In a pitched bnttle between whites and negroes at Hales Bar this morning, three negroes were shot to death. One was "Daddy" Baker, a negro preacher and ringleader of the black rioters. All night forty unarmed white men "bluffed" off an attack oi" the 200 armed negroes. Barricades had been erected, which looked to the enemy sufficiently threatening to inspire fear. Helpless women and children were thus protected from the attack loudly threatened by tho negroes. At any time before the arrival of tho squad of police the negroes could have captured the white camp. But they did not know it. .No effort was made to storm the fort. At Tdaybreak, when tho first shot was fired, a fusillade followed and tho crack of rifles did not ceaso until the negro camp had been vacated and everv weapon that could 'be found In a negro's hand or house had been seized. The negroes had fled, carrying with, them what of their effects they could, but leaving leav-ing behind them tho three dead bodies. |