The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, October 03, 1913, Page PAGE 7, Image 7
NEGROES HOLD TOWN
IN REIGN OF TERROR
Two Mulatto Boys Kill Eight Persons
and Wound 20 Others?Both
Desperadoes are Finally Lynched
?Walter and Will Jones, Crazed
by Drugs, Go Through Streets of
Mississippi Town Firing on Every
One in Sight.
HARRISTOWN, MISS, Sept. 28.?
Two drug-crazed mulatto boys,
brothers, began a reign of murder
here this morning that ended only
after three white men, three negro
men and a negro woman had been
shot to death, several vmnnrliwl and
the two boys lynched. A serious clash
between the races was prevented by
the arrival on a special train, of a
company of national guardsmen
from Natchez.
The trouble started at about 2
o'clock Sunday morning and continued
intermittently until 10 o'clock today,
when Walter Jones, the elder
of the two boys who started the firing,
was lynched just after the soldiers
arrived. His brother, Will, had
been shot by citizens early in the
day. Soon afterwards persons who
had barricaded themselves in their
homes, began to emerge cautiously
from their hiding places and by noon
the town was quiet. No more trouble
is feared.
After it was assumed the death
list was nine, the body of Teller j
warren, a negro, was found in a hut
in the negro quarter where Walter
Jones first began firing. Evidently 1
Warren was one of the first victims
but just when he was shot is not
known.
Twenty persons were injured, 16 of 1
them negroes. None of the negroes
were dangerously hurt.
Killed and Wounded.
The dead: '
Sheriff G. B. Hammett, Jefferson
county, shot as he was leading a 1
posse to where the negroes were hid- '
ing. '
Former Constable Frank Keinsly, 1
shot at his home after beihg called
to a door. !
Claude Freeman, white, of Fayette
shot at railway station while waiting
for a train.
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Thomson and Thad Grayson, negroes
killed during promiscous shooting.
Walter and Will- Jones, negroes
lynched.
Teller Warren, a negro.
Wounded:
Orrin Gillis, former sheriff, shot in
shoulder and may die; E. B. Appleby,
conductor of the Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley railroad, shot in breast, leg
and arm, dangerous; William McCaleb,
shot in leg and thigh; William
Keinstly, son of Frank, shot in hand;
William Dennis, shot in leg; W. C.
Bond, shot in leg.
The shooting was started by Walter
Jones in the negro quarter where
the negro woman and Thad Grayson
were shot and killed. Walter then
went to the home of his mother and
aroused his brother, a boy of 18
years of age. Together they went
through the main street of the little
town firing at everyone in sight. Citizens
aroused from their slumbers
by the shots peered out of the windows
and then hastened to cover.
Fire on Train,
i The two boys, soon after leaving
\ their home, went to the home of former
Constable Frank Keinstly who
when he replied to their call, was
shot through the head by Walter
Jones. Death was instantaneous.
Keinstly's son, William, grabbed for
a gun, when he saw his father fall.
Before he could fire he received a
' bullet in one of his hands. The Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley depot is
near the Keinstly's home and the two
negroes walked in that direction. A
train had arrived from Natchez just
a few minutes before and E. B. Appleby,
the conductor was standing at
the station talking to W. C. Bond,
the flagman. Without warning the
two negroes fired on them and both
fell. The boys then directed their
fire at Claude Freeman who was
waiting for a train to take him to
his home at Fayette, Miss. He was
killed. The negroes turned to the
train firing into the cars. Pasengers
became panic-stricken. A sleeping
car from Natchez left standing at
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ine station until me inrougn train
from Memphis to New Orleans arrived
was a target for the fire of the
negroes. Many windows were broken
but no one in the car was hurt.
'The two slayers made their way to
a cottonseed house nearby. It is be- j
lieved they then realized the wholesale
killing could not long continue
without opposition and determined to
make their last stand at the seed
house.
Sheriff is Killed.
Frightened citizens at this time
telephoned for Sheriff Hammett at
Fayette. Summoning Former Sheriff
Gillis to accompany him, Ham- 1
met started for Harriston on horseback,
arriving about 5 o'clock. A
small crowd of men were firing into
the seed house, but no one had ven
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NATIONAL BIS<
tured to lead the posse to the place.
Taking a few men with him, Sheriff
Hammet started toward the building.
Seeing this move, it is believed Walter
Jones crept to the tall grass nearby
and as Hammett approached the
negro fired, killinsr him instantlv. A
shot from the seed house brought
down Gillis.
By this time the countryside had
been aroused and farmers came pouring
in from every direction. Everyone
opened fire on the seed house
A call was sent to Gov. Brewer for
troops.
Finding his hiding place too pre-'
carious, Will Jones started to run towards
a coal chute nearby, but had
?one only a few steps when a bullet
ended his life. A rope was placed
around the body, it was strung up to
a telegraph pole near the station and
became a target for everyone not
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"OUT AT HOME!" IN TH
Slde-8pllttlng Finish of tho Pschyden
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"Hold your horses?the elephants
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The giddiest, gayest, grandest,
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world Is trekking this way. If one
doesn't infer from this that reference
is made to the Barnum A Bailey
Greatest Show on Earth, the publicity
man will regard the case as hopeless.
Of course, all this Isn't news to
this community, for every blessed one
of us has kept tabs on the flaming
boards and already the leading topic
of nonvAraitilnn In thn nvprncA home
is the coming of the circus and Its
street parade.
The time-honored custom has always
been to refer to each sucoesslve
year's circus as "bigger and better
than ever." But the phrase has become
so hackneyed that this year's Barnum
& Bailey Circus hesitates to use It,
despite the fact that It adequately describes
this season's entertainment.
More cars are required to transfer the
show, more tentage is used, more area
required to accommodate the show
than ever before. In fact, the circus
has reached a point where it is the
despair of many of the smaller railroads
and taxes their facilities to the
limit, for 85 cars are needed to transport
the gigantic canvas vagrant from
town to town.
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shooting at the seed house. i
Soon after Will was killed Walter c
with deadly aim picked Tom Weeks, 1
a negro, off the coal chute. Either ?
the bullet wound or the fall would $
have killed him. i
Negro is Lynched. 1
Not long after Weeks was killed e
the special train bearing the Natchez
Guardsmen arrived and this seemed
to have cowed the desperado. As f
they were detraining the crowd rush- |
ed the seed house. Not a shot greet- j
the place with drawn weapons they ]
ed them and as the leaders went into c
the place with drawn weapons they 8
saw Jones completely unnerved but J
not injured. They quicklyl placed a
rope around his neck and rushed him
to the coal chute. The rope was too {
small and as the negro was drawn j
up the rope broke and he fell heavily ^
to the ground. Not a word or act
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E ELEPHANT BALL GAME.
nic Contest Under the Barnum &
Tente.
year's circus to make half a doxen
circuses of the old school. In place :
of the stereotyped "grand entree," ;
with which circuses have been content i
to open their program for many years,
the Barnum & Bailey entertainment is J
Inaugurated by the splendid spectacle J
entitled, "Cleopatra," a wordless play
based upon the story of Egypt's
ancient queen. The story is effectively
pantomimed and there Is a cast of ,
1,200 persons, including a ballet of 1
dancing girls trained by Ottakar Bartik,
of tha Metropolitan Opera House
in New York City.
The costumes and properties are i
historically correct and the entire in- j
novation is the most stupendous thing ,
ever attempted under canvas. Eu? ,
genie Silbon portrays the "Sorceress \
of the Nile," while Camilla Fortune, ,
a pan torn lm 1st of merit, enacts the ]
role of Antony. ,
Johannes Joeefseon's company of
Icelandic gladiators are conspicuous
newcomers to the Barnum & Bailey
tents. baseball game between ele- 1
phant players is another surprise. A
troupe of Jlu Jltsu experts perform
amaelng feats.
The menagerie has been enlarged
and the exhibit of human frea.be. ?iimi.
Inated & few years ago, baa been restored,
to the Joy of every true circus 1
lover. A street parade will inaugurate ]
the gala day.
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of protest came from Jones as a
arger rope was thrown around his
leek and again he was pulled up?
md the crowd looked on as the drugsaturated
body swung until life was
extinct
The crowd then went to the home
of the negroes, where they found two
iegro men and were about to lynch
.hem, but were dissuaded by oficers.
It seems certain that the
Tones negroes had planned details of
their murderous night, as they were
well armed and had plenty of ammulition.
Their mother said one of
Kom Ko/1 a.1?t. ?
..? iiou LcumiM'u vnuv ne was gong
to "shoot up'' the town, but she
;hought he was joking- Whether the
wo negroes found there, who were
irrested, knew of any plans the
Fones negroes might have had is not
Known.
As there was no evidence that
;here would be more trouble after
iValter Jones was lynched, the Nat:hez
Guardsmen returned home. Gen;rally
the negro population was as
nuch incensed at the Jones brothers
is were the whites. They felt no inlignation
at the lynching.
Tonight the two bodies still were
langing to the coal chute and probibly
will swing there all night. Anhorities
have decided not to hold a
roroner's inquest. ?
Eleven Deaths Result of Riot.
HARRISTOWN, MISS., Sept. 29?
Another victim of the Sunday riot
lied here today, bringing: the death
ist up to 11, three white persons and
sight negroes. Homer Aiken, a nejro,
today succumbed to wounds he
eceived from the two crazed Jones
>rothers, who began the riot which
snded when they were lynched.
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United States agents have seized .
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