Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-11
THE TRUTH AT LAST.
Particulars of the Negro Riot at Meriden
Miss.-All the Victims Whites-Blood-
thirstiness and Treachery of the Blacks
The Fusion Leaders Responsible for
tho fair

Miss.-All the Victims Whites-Blood
thirstiness and Treachery of the Black
Tho Fusion Leaders Responsible TO
the Affair.
MERIDEN, Miss, Nov. 1O.-After lapse O
twodays, and conversation with forty or fift,
different participants, the whole story o
the shooting at Marion is given in brief, a
follows: "On Tuesday last, while the stat
election was progressing at Marion, thi
county, Joseph Barnett, an aged white man
having just voted, was insulted by negro a
the polls. Barnett raised his arm to resent /
with blow. At the same time he drew sticl
on the negro, but, before he could strike
another negro, Frank johnson, shot him in th
neck, cutting the jugular vein, and killing hin
| instantly"
Geo. johnson, (colored) formerly slave O.
Barnett, ran up to defend his old master ant
was shot by negro from which he died to
day.
General shooting among the negroes ther
commenced. The whites were unarmed. jeff
Segars (white) was killed by negro named
Sam. Gillespie. Vance Segars was wounded
| add is expected to die. Alex. Harney, Demo
cratic candidate for county assessor, fifty yards
from the sceEe was rushed 1pon and killed
shot through the head. He ives shot in the
face by Frank Johnson sfter he was dead.
James Hodges (whitej was wounded On the
head. The negroes doing the shoot
ing were Gillespie, Frank johnson, Allen
Browneil, Brown and Martin Malone. Marion
was not the voting place for the negroes.
They were from another precinct. Will Vance,
white, Republican, is said to have given the
order to the negroes to begin firing.
AS soon as the news reached Meriden, SIX
, m lies distant ChoriR T
posse OF seventy-five men, repaired to the
scene. The negroes had all left. A party of
twenty men went to the house of
Ed. Vance, and approaching with warrants
of arrest, demanded the surrender and
were replied to by Vance, halloing to them to
go to hell. They were then fired on, and re-
pulsed, and one horse shot. By o'clock in
the afternoon relief came, and the sheriff
with his men surrounded the house. The
sheriff called out to them to surrender. A
white flag was presented at the front door.
The sheriff met the bearer on halfway ground,
and on promise that he would protect Vance
and all in the house, should they surrender, it
was agreed on. The sheriff drove his buggy
up to the gate to take in the prisoner. Will
Vance and his men gathered about the yard
anticipating no danger. John Vance at that
moment was seen in STOPPING attitude
behind the corner of the stables
HCdi Uy, Will d gun leVelleU on the posse,
but before he could fire he was shot and killed.
At the same instant, while A. G. Warren, of
the posse, was pledging protection to the
females of Vance's family, he was shot
through the head by some one from inside the
house and Instantly killed. The sheriff and
Hardin Jones of the posse were slightly
wounded. Ed. Vance escaped
Several negroes were seen to fire on the posse
from the house and run off. No negroes are
known to be killed. Four or five are known
to be wounded. Will Vance was brought to
Meriden by the sheriff in a buggy, eight
miles, at night and lodged in Jail. No
harm was offered him. Young Ed. Vance,
boy OF II years, was captured, but was allowed
to remain at home. Yesterday party of fifty
went, under direction of the sheriff, in search
of Ed. Vance and others concerned in the riot.
None were found except negro named Mar
Tin MalOney, who took an active part in the
riot. He is now in Jail.
No negroes were murdered in the swamps
None were shot ateXcept those resisting arrest
and running out of Vance's house; nor have
the blacks about Marion fled in terror. There
is a circus in Meriden to-day, aud the streets
are crowded with negroes as if nothing had
happened.
If any of the above statements are not cor
rect, the errors are SO immaterial that they
can give no color to the case However, affi-
davits doubtless could be procured to sustain
any statement made therein. The only cause
assigned for the disturbance is the doctrine
taught by the fusionists in the late campaign
that negroes should carry pistols to the polls.
After the fight, three kegs of powder and a
large supply of buckshot were found in
Vance's house. He is said to have bought the
keg OF powder on SATURDAY.