The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-08-14
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RIOT AND BLOousuED At AUSTIN, MISS. -
WHITES AND NEGROES UNDER ARMS
SEVERAL KILLED hND WOUNDED.

WHITES AND NEGROES UNDER ARMS
SEVERAL KILLED AND WOUNDED.
MEMPHIS, Aug. If, 1S14.--A special to
the Appoa', from Helena, Ark, received
at $50 this morning, says At 10 O'Clock
last night three ladies aud two gentlemen
arrived here from Austin in a skif. and re-
port considerable fighting late yesterday
evening. The commander of the post.
whose name we did not learn, dispatched
a scout Of % men on the road to Cold
Water Station, on the Mississippi and
{ Tennessee Railroad, and captured picket
of 20 negroes, who were stationed about
two miles from the town. and brought
them here as prisoners and disarmed them.
one Of them, as they were being put into
the Court House yard tried to make his
escape, when he was tired upon and killed,
and in the melee which ensued another
negro was wounded, but not fatally.
LATER.
In the evening Il large body of negroes
advanced from the South, driving in the
white sllirmishers to the Court House,
where tho ma in body of whites were sta
toned. charge was made by the whites
and the negroes were repulscd with loss.-
Several We're killed and wounded. Fight
ing was going on when orr infOrmauts
lest and they were fired upon asthcy cross
ed over to ship Island.
SECOND DESPATCH.
Major Gen. Chalmers, of ernaudo, has
just az. i've here .or the purpose of charter
lng boat to take men to the assistance Of
the whites III Austin. I!e says a courier
from Mayor Wood5Jn, of Austin. reports
from fernando at daylight stated that the
town Is surrounded by ABOUT .0JO negroes,
and asking for help. About I0J men from
. fernando and vicinity VIII be here at two
o'clock, and, i'll company with volunteers
from THIS city, VIII start ut four for Aus
tin. Dr. Smith, who is the unfortunate
cause of the trouble there, reached here
last night.
Some three weeks since, he was attacked
in the streets of Austin by negro. and,
drawing pistol, fired az the negro, but
missed him and killed little negro girl
standing by, which oxasperated the ne
grocs to such all extent that they collected
mob and took DR. Smith to the woods
to hang him, which they would have done
but for the eutreaties of Mayor Woodson
and the Doctors wife. Since that time
he has been voluntarily an inmate of the
Jail. to prevent being mobbed, until last
Friday when some friends came and car
RED hIm to fernando, on learning which
the negroes collected and large numbers
notified the Mayor that unless DR.. Smith
was brought back and put i'll Jail they would
burn the town.
STILL LATER.
kilograms are being received from the
vicinity of Austin asking for men, arms,
and ammunition, and stating that unless
the whites, who are surrounded in the
Court House. are speedily relieved, they
viii be forced 10 surrender, or he captured.
The steamer \. J. " Nhite has been char
tered to leave at ) O click and viii carry
large number of me. well armed.
Another special ID t'.o -IDpcH says the
negroes who are surrounding Austin on
the south sidc were c:.Trccd this morning
by body Of mounted whites, who killed
four or five and cap. ll,.! twenty negroes.
The blacks number about 700 and the
whites have about 2U}. Both parties are
expecting re-nnforcemcutS. At present the
whites have the best Of the fight The
negro hands on the plantations opposite,
on the Arkansas side, are aruiug and
marching on Austin in large numbers.
\ Fearful SWING.-Fi~ac2ll0u EscrDs
from Dcata.-A bout three weeks since a
party of six young ladies anG five gentle
men started Out from tLu Heighborhoyd Of
Guthricville, Chester county, for the pur-
pose of spending Il day on the summit Of
the romantic Welsh mountain. During the
afternoon one of the ladies, Miss Annie
Johnson, from Baltimore, expressed wish
to engage III swinging. y swing had been
( pat up IN the morning suspended from q
tree sixty feet high. About half way uD
the solid oak a huge limb branchcd out to
the left, upon which both ends of the rope
were fastened, thus making the swing thir-
= ieet, requiring rope over sixty feet long
ono used for well digging. This swing
had been used during the day without ac-
cIdent. Miss Johnson, who is a lady of
daring disposition, insisted on being swung
as high as could be done by lhc aid of the
gentlemen, and to CRAFTY her wishes they
consented. The young lady Is between
eighteen and nineteen years old. a pretty
brunette, dark eyes, and was dressed in a
gray linen suit. She sat OH the seat board
OF the swing and graspcd the rope tightly
and bade them go ahead. The swing COM
mcnccd its motion, and gradually rose
higher and higher until an altitude Of about
twenty feet had been reached. She still
insisted upon being pushed, and went uD
on the swing higher AID hjshor until fully
thHty icct had been reached. She had been
cheerful and lively up to this point. bat all
OF sudden she became quiet, the rest of
. the ladies' were ayc-Strsc< Ell. and " heu the
swing with It's precious burden made one
swift sweep IN the air her head was noticed
u drop to one side, her muscles relaxed,
her arms to let go their hold and drop, and
away the unfortunate girl was hUrlC,!
through the air, and only saved from a
iiilShtiul and terrible death by one of the
most miraculous lntervcGtiDHS ever heard
OF. The momentum of the swings motion
carried the apparently hCcicss form of the
girl up fully tHITty-.ive feet from the ground
"Hd i'uSed Lcf safely ana securely between
Two branches at the point where they iOin
! the trunk of tree. which stood about
. thlrtT-oiEht feet ftOg.. the tlve 80 which the
= rope WAS attached. i he f.iehL and terror
Of the I1rjy below can Lc better ina eined
than drsc:lt,d as tiic swing came reeInc
, backwards, whic its former occupant was
, lying apparently Hfolass in The branches of
the tree. 1t required only few minutes
: deiiberation for the gentlemen to realize
5 the situation and determine what to do.
1t was fully twenty feet from the ground to
: the first limb above, and the trunk of the
Tree about three feet in diameter They
; ""cNta the wagon Uith its canvas coverdi-
0 lectiy under the tree, SO that in case she
: N"uiU irI crop her fall would be partially broz-
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