Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-12
THE BLACK RIVER TRAGEDY.
The Contest Bloody Seene---MiraculOus
Escape Of Ysung I0nes.
Latest Particulars Of the Affair---EhsTe-
abOuts of IOuag Jones.

! into the second story. From thenci
he passed out of one of the windows
and by clinging to the projecting
bricks of the chimney, managed t
conceal himself in its shadow unit
after the search was over and the at
tacking party had left.
As soon as he could get down with
safety, he procured 4 pirogue and pad
died along down the river. He was
finally. it is said, taken on board of q
steamboat, and it being suspected that
some of the attacking party were on
board, he was concealed by the officers
in the hold of the boat until she
reached this city.
Col. Jones and his sons, 1t appears,
were expecting an attack, but did not
expect it to come before the eXamina-
tion took place.
This is cOrrObOrated by the letter
which Col. Jones wrote TO Gov. War
moth, asking for assistance from the
military, in which he was joined by
Sheriff Ballord, both seeming to an
ticipate trouble at the time of the eX-
animation.
When the attacking party an
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Col. Jones seemed to take in the stu
alton in q moment, and remarked
There they are.' Besides the ladies
in the house, there We're present elijah
B. Cotton and Sheriff BallOrd. Before
the door was broken In, the younger
Joneses, it is said, proposed TO their
father to make fight, but he replied
that il was useless. As soon as the
door gave way, the parties attacking
ordered all the females and innocent
parties Out of the house, and Col.
Jones, throwing 3 sheet or counter
pane around him, passed out with the
rest, and had reached the front gate
before he Was discovered and shot
down.
The elder Of the two sons passed ont
at the back door, and had reached an
opening in the picket fence in the
rear, through which he was passing,
when be was discovered and shot
down.
Mr.. Cotton, it i5 said, expected
that as the excitement was 50 great he
might be shot also; but as soon as ii
was discovered who he was, he was
assured that no harm would come 10
him.
The panic in Catahoula is so great
that the people are unwilling 70 eX-
press an opinion pro OF con in the mat
ter Of the killing.
YOUNG JONES ESCAPE.
From the y. o. Times Of tuesday,
When the contest commenced, the
three were in a front room. The
father, standing near a bedstead,
rested his wounded left arm on it.
and in his right hand held a revolver
pointed at the portal. The second son
stood Immediately in rear, with two
revOlvers pointed in the same direc-
ton. The third son (the one who is
now in the city, was still farther back,
armed with one revolver. In the
brief parley the younger brother had
urged the unhappy little garrison to
take. .a!statiOn upstairs, but the other
two insisted that if fire was used that
course would only lead to certain
and that as death was
inevitable, all had best
meet it boldly. The youth,
however, did not seem to give
up all hope, and before the
assault had fairly commenced, he
through 3 rear room, in the
direction of the stair case. About the
time he had placed his foot on the
first step, there came q terrific bang
ing at the door, apparently with an
AK. Hurrying up, he was startled
with crash, the door had fallen, and
the horror which followed rivaled
terrOrs of hell itself A dozen shots
ia quick succession, a tiendish yell,
the grOan of a dying man, and the
tramp Of heavy footsteps. Men,
ike Wild beasts, maddened at the
sight of blood, rushed in all direc-
tions. The older son, desperately
tOttered out TO the, garden
in the rear, only to have the remnant
Of life shot out of him by a wretch,
lrevolver in hand), who stood over
him as he lay gaspiHg on the ground.
The work OF carnage was of short
duration; ten minutes completed the
below, and then a rush was
made for the upper story for the one
more victim, a beardleSs boy, who
for their hungry bullets.
To leap to the ground and certain
death, or present his breast 10 the now
assassinS, was the thought
Of an instant. While the assailants
were yet on the stairs, he concluded /
20 do neither, and sprang through a
'rOnt window, where, graSping a ledge |
'Ormed under the sill, he swung him |
3elf out and hung suspended-blOodI |
DeiOw, blOOd-thirsty enemies above. |
How long he remained there is better /
old by his hands, covered with blis- |
ers, and so bruised and strained that |
wen now they are nearly useless. The |
'OOm was speedily filed with men.
Torches were thrust out almost over |
lis head, but thanks to their binding /
dare, the victim hung unseen. They |
evidently believed he had escaped. !
Parties were even sent to the river, /
)ut after a stay Of perhaps fifteen min /
ltes, the scene Of horror was deserted. /
The danger for the moment over, |
he youth swung himself back into |
he room, and for a time lay com !
)letely overcome by exhaustion. Then /
anne the sad Office of viewing the /
bloody corpses Of the only two he /
claimed akin within thousands of /
niles. Colonel Jones lay where he |
iad stood, pierced by four bullets. He |
l9d evidently died instantly, receiv- /
ng every wound from the front. The /
.on lay in the garden, also quite dead. |
Remaining perhaps an hour on the |
ragie ground, the boy creeping softly /
o the river, procured a piTOgue, and |
ilOwly flOated down stream to a lower
anding. Sinking on board the steam !
r MayfiOWer, he found himself in the
midst of his enemies, fifteen OF them,
lrmed with shotguns.
While standing in bewilderment, |
me man, worthy of the name. we
wish we dared give it, touched him,
md the two walked toward the en-
zine room. He was quickly directed
20 the hold, a couple Of bales of cot
.On were carelessly rolled over the
hatch, and the escape was accom-
plished. The party left the boat in
squads of three and four on the way
ioWa the river. 1t is not certain that
all left. 1t is not certain that some
are not here now that two of them
did not, on Saturday night, drive to
his refuge in a carriage. He is sur
rounded, however, by circle fiercer
than Greek fire. Should they pene-
trate it, twill be at the risk of life.