Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-11-23
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MISSISSIPPI ELECTION nor
DETAILS oFTnE UGLY AFFAIR MARION
STATION,

The story of the shooting aud riot
at Marion Station, Lauderdalo county,
Mississippi, on Tuesday, Nov. sth, is
as follows
On Tuesday last, while the State
election was progressing at Marion,
this county, Joseph Barnett, an aged
white man, having just voted was in
suited by negro at the polls, Bar
nett raised his arm to resent IL with q
blow. Some say he drew a stick on
the negro, but before he could strike
another negro, Frank Johnson, shot
him in the neck, cutting his jugular
vein and killing HIM almost instantly
George Jones, colored, formerly a slave
Of Barnett, ran up to defend his old
master and was shot by negro Gen.
erul shooting among the negroes then
commenced. The whites were all un,
armed, JEFF. Segars, white, was killed
by negro named Sam Gillespie
Vance Scgars was wounded and is OK.
pected to die, Alex, Harvey, Demo.
cratic candidate for County Assessor,
fifty yards from the scene, was rushed
upon by negro and killed, shot
through the head, He was shot in the
face by Frank Johnson, after he was
dead. James Hodges, white, was
wounded 10 the hand The negroes
doing the shooting were Gillespie,
Frank Johnston, Allen Bnrwell, Brown
and Malone. Marion was not the vot.
ing place for these negroes. They were
from another precinct win Vance,
white Republican, is said to have given
the order to the negroes to begin fir.
ing. As soon as the news reached
Meridian, six miles distant, Sheriff r,
l.. Henderson, with a posse of fifteen
men, repaired to the scene. The negroes
all had left. A party of twenty men
went to the house of Ed. Vance, white
Republican, and approaching with
warrants Of arrest, demanded surrend.
er, and were replied to by Vance hal.
looing to them to ego to hell They
were then fired upon and ropuIsed. By
five in the afternoon relief came, and
the Sheriff with his men surrounded
the house, Tho Sheriff called out to
them to surrender. A white dag was
presented at the front door, The
Sheriff met the bearer on halfway
ground, and on the promise that he
would protect Vance and al in the
house should they surrender, II was
agreed on. The Sheriff drove his bug.
gy up to the gate to take in the pris
oner. win Vance and his men gath.
cred about the yard, anticipating no
danger. John Vance at that moment
was seen in stooplng attitude behind
the corner Of the stables near by, with
gun levelled on the posse, but before
he could fro ho was shot and killed.
At the same instant, while A. G. War
ren, of the posse, was pledging pro.
lection to the females of The Vance
family, he Was shot through the head
by some one inside the housc aud in
stantly killed. Tho Sheriff and Har
den Jones, of the posse, were slightly
wounded. Ed. Vance escaped. Sew.
eral negroes were seen to fire on the
posse from the house and run of. No
negroes are known to be killed. Four
or five are known to be wounded.
Will Vance was brought to Meridian
by the Sherill IN u buggy eight miles
at night, and lodged in jail No harm
was offered him. Young Ed. Vance,
boy of seventeen, was captured, but
was allowed to remain at home.
Yesterday party of fifty men went
under the direction of the Sheriff in
search of Ed. Vance and others con.
corned in the riot. None were found
except a negro, Martin Malone, who
took an active part in the riot. lie is
now in Jail. No negroes were mur.
dered in the swamps, and none shot at
except those resisting arrest aud run.
ming out of Vance's house, nor have
tho blacks about Marion fed in terror.
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