The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-03
HORRIBLE MASSACRE
Sixteen Negroes in Gibson Co.
Particulars rliIe Brutal Outrage


n This morning, Mr.. John T. Flvpn
/ superintendent Of the Memphis and Obi
: railroad, received a dispatch from one 0
the employees Of the road, giving the fac
= OF the killing Of the sixteen negroes con
e. hned IN the Trenton Jail, charged witt
e the crime of kukluxiDg, and advised hin
!, OF great excitement along the line of tn.
road. Immediately upon the receipt o
this information, the Appeal dispatched
: It's war correspondent, from whom we ex
pect full details.
! The following are The names of ten q
the negroes who were murdered by the
mob: George Greene, Steve BRYANT
Dan Williams, Bob Love, Dick Shaw
Dug Jamison. Hays PEBBLES. Jarrett
Burrows, Alfred Williams and Nick Ivey.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Especial to the Appeal
TRENTON, August 26.-Abou fouy
hundred armed, disguised, mounted men
entered this town at TWO o'clock this
morning, proceeded to the Jail, and de-
manded the keys Of the tailor, Mr. Alex
ander. He refused to give up the KEYS.
Sheriff Williams, hearing the noise, awoke
and went to the jail, and refused to sur
render the keys to the maskerg. telling
them he did not have the KEYS. They
cooked their pistols, and he refused again
TO give them the KEYS, whereupoD the
captain OF the company ordered the
| masked men to draw their pistols and
cock them, swearing they would have
the keys or shoot the iailor. The taller
told shem to shoot and be DID; and
| said they were too id cowaralv 70
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they threatened to tear down the iail or
get the prisoners. The jailer told them
that rather than they should tear down
| the Jail he would give them the KEYS if
| they would go with him to his Office.
| The jailer did this because he saw that
| the men were determined to break
through. They were all disguised
/ They then came, ," says the sheriff, land
got the keys from my office, and giving
three or four yells, went to the Jail, I'M
locked it, took out the sixteen negroes
who had been brought here from Picket
vile (Gibson), and, tying their hands,
! escorted them away. They proceeded on
the Huntingdon road without saying 3
word, and in fifteen minutes heard shots !
In company with several citizens, | pro-
ceeded down the road in the direction
taken by the men and prisoners, and Just
beyond the river bridge, half mile from
town, | found four negroes dead on the |
ground; their bodies riddled with bullets, /
and two wounded. We saw no masked /
men. Ten negroes yet remain unscc0unted /
for. Leaving the dead bodies where we
found them, we brought the two wounded |
negroes to town, and summoned medical |
aid. Justice j. III. Caldwell held an in
quest on the bodies, the verdict being in
accordance with the facts, that death /
resulted from shots inflicted by guns in /
the hands of unknown parties. The /
inquest was held about o'clock this /
morning These are all the facts relative /
to the shooting | can give you. | did my /
duty to prevent the rescue eff the negroes, /
but found it useless to oppose the men,
one of whom said there were four hun
dred in the band.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THE sLAUGH-
TER.
MEMPHIS, Aug. ga special from
Trenton to the Avalanche gives the fol-
lowing additional particulars regarding
the slaughter Of colored prisoners: AT
ter the masked men, to the number Of
about one hundred had obtained posses
eIOI VI tiIC pilcOHtIS- iIitF Iltu liiStu To- |
gether, and marched them off on the
Huntingdon Road Half mile from
town six Of the number were cut loose
and ordered to escape, and as soon as
that order was given volley was fired
ON them, killing four and wounding the
others, one MORALLY; the remainder
were carried up the river two miles and
killed.
I Associated Press Di>ps tches.
NASHVILLE, August The negroes
at Picketsville, Gibson county, six miles
from Humboldt, on last Saturday and
Sunday, threatened riot on account Of
some supposed wrong done them, and
manifested a strong desire to kill two or
three citizens and fire and sack the town.
Y esterday sixteen ringleaders were ar
rested and taken to Trenton and placed
in Jail for safe-keeping. About one
o'clock this morning between four and
five hundred masked men entered the
town, rode up to the jail, and demanded
and compelled the sheriff to deliver the
KEYS. They then took sixteen negroes
from the Jail, and four were killed
and two mortally wounded at the edge
of town. They then rode oft with the
other ten, and are supposed to havekiiled
them, as nothing has been heard from
them since they left.
THE OUTRAGE AND MASSACRE AT TREN- !
TON
Fl ON the Appeal of the 9th.
I'VE cannot find words severe enough to