The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18


!, female tempters and moved toward tn,
stage for the purpose Of stopping Carter
: and probably doing him personal violence
: A dozen or more blacks stepped on the frai
: staging at the same time and it yielded
under their weight and fell to the ground
! General confusion prevailed. Women
shouted and yelled like demons. The
/ colored Chairman, Clinton, in accordance
with his pledge. rushed to Carter and. with
the assistance OF half dozen other eolored
and as many white men, bore lin out OF
: the crowd. While bearing him through
the immense throng some one threw a rock
or some other missile which struck him on
/ the back of the head, inficting painful
wound The crowd of blacks we're in an
uproar of excitement, the women taking The
lead. Conspicuous among the female rioters
was Esther Fletcher, tall, Young, Wild
eyed, black negress. She vas armed with
a small five-shooter As soon as Cain in
terrupted Carter, Esther opened fire. Her
weapon was pointed to the ground. At
each fire she'd yell, "Rally, men Rally,
men" Other women joined in the cry,
shouting, moaning and cursing in one
breath, and praying in the next. During
her wild appeals, Esther thought she had
shot herself in the hand. and an eye
witness of the row says that she fell upon
her knees and began to pray to be saved.
Discovering her mistake the amazon sprang
up with the agility Of a cat and resumed
her calls upon the men to rally. During
the firing at the speakers stand ball, it is
supposed from one of the women's weapons,
struck Carter's shoe and passed through the
heel thereof without any injury, aud
another struck Chairman Clinton on the
nose. None of the few whites at the stand,
so far as have been stated, took any part III
the firing.
TROUBLE IL THE VILLAGE.
| While the disturbance was going on at
the stand, Hamp Mobley, powerful negro
of the town, vas on the streets of the village
disturbing the peace He was under the
influence Of liquor, and in this condition he
stopped T. A. Witherspoon on the street
and endeavored to take gun away from
him. Several whites gathered around the
negro and, it is claimed, endeavored to pre- |
vail upon him to go home and not force the
authorities to arrest him. He was quite
violent and swore he would not submit to |
arrest by the Sheriff or any one else. His
condition and his threats were such that |
nF H. ,ol1 Ina
to take him in charge. He made violent
resistance, and it required seven men to
take him to Jail. He was disarmed and
put in a cell without sustaining any inju-
ries Both the negroes and whites say that
Sheriff Hunter displayed wonderful for
bearance toward his prisoner. Several of
the Republican negroes. Of The town admit
that the officer would have been justified in
shooting him down on the spot.
A FATAL ENCOUNTER.
The fact of the arrest of Hamp Mobley,
who is regarded as leader of prominence
among his race, reached the negroes at the
stand. AS soon as it became known some
one in the crowd got up and yelled out,
Hamp Mobley has been arrested in townT
The cry was repeated until it became a rail-
ly. Among the leaders of one of the Wax
ahaw political clubs was Mack MobIey,
brother of the imprisoned man. That rela-
tionship to one of their chiefs was possibly
an additional reason for their feeling indig-
nant at Hamp's incarceration. A few mo-
ments later large proportion of the crowd
consisting probably of two hundred and
fifty, with the two Waxahaw political clubs
at the head of the column, fell into line /:
and marched towards the village. At the
head of the men were Bill Crockett, tall,
powerful negro, about twenty-five !; Jim
Jones and one or two others. Crockett,
however, was looked upon as the ringleader.
When the column formed Crockett was not
at the head, but several negroes who wit
messed the whole affair say that he drove
the spurs into his horse, dashed down the
line and pushed his way to the front. The
white citizens having been warned by the /
firing at the place of speaking, and hearing {
the rumor that Editor Carter had been '
killed in the row there, hastily snatched up l
such armsag they could find and ten or
dozen assembled on the sidewalk on the {
main street Of the village, just where the .
town commences. The whites were armed
principally with revolvers and double bar /;
relied shot guns. As the head of the adj ,
yancing cavalcade of blacks passed the
quaint old looking courthouse and got within 3
gun shot OF the whites, Bill Crockett dashed
up in front of his men, pointing his pistol
at white man named Mr.. Quay Donno- l
want, saying; Yes, there he is now,s and I
was in the act of shooting Donnovant down, ]
it is said, when fire was opened upon q
Crockett and his followers. The leader was 9
the first one assailed. A ball struck him on :
the shoulder and another il the face. He !
toppled o7er the saddle of his horse
and fell to the ground dead, pierced by
42-caliber ball.-eOne other negro was shot. ]
The negroes returned the fire but without a
1ny effect. The white men fred several
volleys at them, from the effect of which q
Mack Mobley, another leader and Nathan /
Cureton fell deador died soon after. After one
Or two more volleysthe negroes retreated in
confusion back in the direction from which
yhey had entered the town and dispersed to Z
their homes in various sections Of the j
county.
THE WOUNDED. !,
Fifteen or twenty negroes we're wounded
and some Of them seriously, but strange to
say, none of the wounded fell from their 7
saddles, Thomas Cunningham, who sus-
tanned wound through the kidneys, died last
Tuesday night. He after receiving his death \
wound galloped of and returned to the town
later and obtained SOME provisions he had
Of one of the village merchants ]
before the disturbance began He returned
{. his home in the Waxahaw county, where
be died, as stated. Among the others seri- q
ously wounded are Joe Brown, Mack Cure c
son and Ham Robertson. The latter il e