The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-09-08


fire upon the whites. The white men
had now reached a small open field
which skirts along the railroad. Quite
number of them were wounded. Up To-
this time the retreat had been covered by
the few men who joined the party from
the stand, but by the time they reached
the railroad, these also had exhausted the
loads in their pistols, except one who
had reserved his fire.
THE CROSSING REACHED.
The gentleman with the loaded pistol
took his stand upon it, and that one pis-
toll saved the lives of the whole party who
were fortunate enough to reach there IN
time. With it the advancing negroes
were held at bay until the others
were well on their way to Clinton which
was off about half mile, by the public
road. They were joined BY fresh men
from the town which put an end to their
pursuit but did not prevent
THE MASSACRE.
Young Mr. Thompson, of Raymond,
not being able Gti thought from wounds)
to reach the road crossing in time, went
directly South across some fields to the
RAYMOND road where he was caught up
with by mounted negroes and murdered
at least mile and half from the barbe-
cue grounds.
Mr. Siveley also failing to reach the
crossing in time, kept directly across the
public road into large field in which he
was also caught up with and butchered.
The bodies of these men were fearfully
and attrociously disfgured and mangled.
They were robbed of all they had about
their persons, their boots and other pieces
of clothing.
The murder of Mr.. Charles Chiffon was
as cowardly and brutal an act as was ever
perpetrated. 1t will be remembered
that the barbecue grounds we're bounded
on the North by the Chiffon place-this
was Mr.. Charles Chilton's residence.
He had been at the barbecue in the morn
| ing but had carried one or two friends
home with him to dinner. They were sit
ting in his house talking when the firing
began. They, with the ladies of the house
hold, ran out on the gallery to see what was
the matter. Soon after they got out, Mr..
Chiffon observing crowd of negro women
and children coming around the fence,
ran down to his gate to let them in the
| yard for protection, as he did not know
the extent of the fighting, it being nearly
an eighth of a mile away. He opened
the gate and called them in, and after
some of them had awaited themselves of
his kindness he turned and started back
to the house, when party of negro men
who were leaving the grounds fred upon
him and struck him in the back, MORALLY
wounding him. He was carried into his
house, and died in an hour and a half.
The wanton atrocity of this deed will be
better understood when it will be remem-
bered that all of the fighting was at the
southwest and south of, and on the
grounds, and Mr.. Chiffon was at the ex-
treme northeast corner of the grounds,
and was at no time much nearer than an
eighth of mile of the fight, nor in sight
of it, and that it was all the time moving
directly away from his residence. That
he was shot by men who were roaming
from the fight, and probably had not
been near where it was, as the grounds
were very large.
THE WOUNDED WHITES.
There were FIVE or six whites wounded,
Messrs Neal and White supposed to be
mortally, the others variously-from Sc
rious to very slight.
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED NEGROES.
KILLED. There was said to have been
five or six negroes killed on and around
the grounds, but we saw only two there
two had fallen at the first fire, right a.
the branch. There was also near them
a big pool of blood, which indicated that
dHOltl6I ldu ALSO ldllcu IH0T0. L neSc TWO
were said to have been from the Byram
neighborhood. 1t was said that three
others were lying in the fields near by,
but we did not see them.
WoUNDED.-Howm many negroes were
wounded it was impossible to ascertain,
but two were lying at Charles Caldwelrs
residence in Clinton, and one reached
jackson Saturday evening.
MEASUREMENTS.
AS soon as the wounded whites reached
Clinton, kilograms were sent up and
down the road for aid 1t was now about
5 o'clock in the evening. Immediately
a lightning train from Vicksburg, with
$50 men, was on the way, and companies
from Edwards and Bottoms arrived, and
as the news spread, as it were upon the
air, into the country, squads of men re-
ported from every direction.
THE JACKSON MEN.
In misplace, all was excitement. In
less than thirty minutes a company of
over fifty men, with Frank Johnston as
Captain, and r. L. Saunders, as Lieu
tenant was formed and collected at the