The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-18
SHOT FROMAMBUSH
Mississippi White Men Mas.
sacred by Negroes.
A RACE WAR INTENDING.
The Blacks. Well Armed. Take to
the swamps and Fsrtify Their Po-
sition-Whi hite Rinemen Pouring
into w.haiak from All Points
Hundreds In Each Host.

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. IA special dis-
patch from Columbus. Mss. 10 the
PseagHae says Several gentlemen reached
this city this morning from Artesis. bring.
ing news Of the wholesale slaughter o. a
eoustable's posse near Nahsiak, small
station on the Mobile & Ohio railroad, near
Macon, Miss on Friday last negro and
| awhile boy got into . fight The white
boys father attempted 20 separate them.
when he was set upon By the negro boy aaa
his father and terribly beaten YESTERDAY
| the white man swore out a warrant for the
uegro's arrest. aud Constable seth Cobb
| went 10 the Degre's house to execute IL
| when he was stIacked by . number Of ne
groes aud beaten. He then summoned a
i posse OF Il m-u and went Yesterday even
| ing TO arrest the negro.
The posse were fired upon from ambush
and five were killed outright and SIX
/ wounded more or less seriously. The news
spread rapidly. and the negroes were
strongly reiaforeed- wahaiak feiegraphed
| along the line for help, and Meridian re
| spoRded with about ss armed men. They
were Joined a. every station, and on reach
ing Nahalak marched Immediately 10 the
/ scene OF the bloofshed.
The negroes we're barriesded and refused
/ 70 surrender or give up the dead whites
! AT noon the forces were supposed 10 be
about equal. and what the result is no one
here knows.
This afternoon news was received that
| the belligerent negroes have retreated 10
/ the swanfs and are stubborn, while the
! non-combstant negroes are fleeing to the
woods In terror. There is considerable ex-
eitemeut here. and news of the develop
iEents Is awaited with the utmost anxiety.
Following is list OF the killed and
wounded; Killed-Henry Maury, seth
/ Cobb, Tom Nicholson Nounded-Frank
Maury, Tom Giles. Bob Harper. H. l. Har.
per, John Dew.
NEGROES REPORTED sHoT.
\ special from Macon, Miss. says: II is
reported this evening that seven negroes
implicated were shot this morning. Two
armed squads left here to-day for the scene
OF the trouble, and more bioodshed may
be expected
New ORLEANS, Dec. I7-PicagaHe's Co
lumbus, Miss, special: The negroes have
not been idle. Reports from the country
where they are eongregatiDg state that
their number is being continually in
creased By reinforcements. aud that they
are fully armed and deterTzlned 10 fight TO
the end.
MIDSI6Hr-Adyices just received from
the scene OF the troubles state that the
negroes have become alarmed at the num-
ber of reinforcements which the whites
retFeaied Ia the swamps. where
they are fortifyiDg themselves
and making every preparation 10 re-
sisi all attacks. They are armed
with shot-guns, muskets. and pistols. and
are abnndautlv supplied with ammuni-
tion. The whites are mostly armed with
Winchester rifles. shot guns, and some side
arms. and are determined 10 put stop TO
all such outbreaks
The present scene of trouble Is about five
miles from wahalak, and reports are hard
70 get.
THE WHITE ARMY READY To MOVE
Late reports are to the effect that the
whites and blacks are now about equal in
numbers. and the whites were about TO
advance to the swamp. This, efcourse, in
ereases the excitement here, and reports
OF an encounter are hourly ex-
pccted. That ii will be fearful
in its results no one for moment doubts.
any thing but reassuring- Those who re-
member the riots OF ls75 shudGer as they
contemplate all the horrors of a race war.
The affair is greatly regretted by all good
citizens, who furesee that much bloodsbed
NAV be the result, aud while there is no
doubt as 10 who VIII be the yiefors when
the crisis comes. still IL Is most depiorable
affair and one that viii have u baneful in
haenee on the South.
THE WHOLE STORY EXAGGERATED.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 17.--An AraidReR special
from Meridian Miss, SAYS A party who
left here for WahaiaE, to-day. have re-
turned, reporting every thing quiet at n light
fall, and no fighting.
81. LoUIs, Dec. IS.-A RepRblic special
from Mahalak, received al ? a. m, says but
one man was killed, Constable Zeth Cobb,
while but four were wounded, and only
one seriously The posse which got into
trouble vas not a legal body. No warrant
had been issued for the negro. There is
little Likelihood of further trouble.