BATTLE IN AMERICAN TOWN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1908, 17 November 1913, Page 4

BATTLE IN AMERICAN TOWN.

SEVEN NEGROES AND THREE WHITES KILLED. , Die race riot in Mississippi-which oc* . curreil rcccnlly -was tho outcomo. of a quarrel bet-.YCea ■ four negroes', but tho : incidental killing of whites brought about a situation wKch. :cauSe.d tl'io Gov-, crnor of Mississippi to proclaim martial law : in tlib district, tflililo tho' sowns. of ' 'llarriston and FayeUb were patrolled ' by tho State Militia sent from Jackson and Natchez. . Tho death-roll included /three whites . and seven -negroes. ■ -Seven whites were . seriously' wounded and 29 negroes. The circuit judge tried to removo all tho negroes from tho twO/ aiid sb.iid ; thorn to a placo of . safety .nntil tno trouble Mew .over. Tho negroes, however, refused to .leavo...their homes, nnd as reprisals woro threatened by tho \tfi.itios "it wii9; thoujjlit tliat. tho/ muitia would have to lcmain on duty-for sonio limo to pome. The troubles started at llarriston early in tho morning and spread to Fayette, winch is .only, two miles ;aw ; ay-. Two negro brothers named Wjlhaui and Walter Jones two other negroes, who find on- tho. .Jones- brothers producing revolvers. They wero pursued b,V the brothers, who- began (shooting alter thein, T.lw pursuit continued right through 'tllio .un- : fortunately for the" pursuers, some of their bullets went wide and struck n.na killed' wlutofiv Tho sheriff and,, a :oonstablo and a •citizen why attempted to stop the infuriated negroes. wero shot .iii<[ lcilled. Tills, bixniglit. out hundreds., of whites all armed with guns. ThfJ' surrounded tho; brothers, raptured them, and strung therii up on a telegraph polo nesir the railway station, afterwards riddling their.bodies with shot and. leaving them to. hang 'there as "an ox ample to tho liegrocs." There is a lai'ge negro population 111 both llarriston and layette-. When the news of the lynchnifj kec.uuo known tlioy ros'b in thop l hundreds, nnd 'arming theuiw-'lves, mtiap vaf on t'ho whites. .." y, A pitched battle was fought 111 tho streets -of Hanision, hut the. whites were tiie more powerful, 111 *;}{} bal-tle seven negreos were Kifjcd al!<l • badly Hounded. H was only by tip hast.v dispatdi ofi'a company ..or militia from Xatchetf, twWty-live. utiles iuyav, that the outbreak was s-.lbdiu-!. heeling ran so high that tire Governor sent. . r.fi'.i more men Stoik JaekMUi. the c.uuttitl, nnd both -whites and bmeJta .wero disarmed. '... ....... ..