The Portland daily press., 1894-12-26
A RACE WAR.


was. according to the Mccall story, the
first chapter of what was to be regular
slaughter. Yhe details of that have
been fully told.
AS soon as Isham's body had been
taken home, Judge E. W. Tillman and
Mr.. Henry Tillman, mis- brother-ln-law,
organized for the search for the murder
ers There were four negroes in the
party, two named Herring; Mccall, who
has confessed, and Pike, who is still at
large. Mccall and the Hernlngs We're
caught the first night and jailed. Then
the search for Pike, the murderer, be-
gan in earnest, but he could not be
found that evening. On Friday NC Gail
acknowledged that he was present and
told OF the pledge the negroes OF that
section had taken.
The statement created great deal OF
feeling il. the county, and when 1t reach
ed the house of Isham and the Till
mans it aroused feeling that had not
manifested itself before.
1t was then that the whites would
have taken revenge if they could. have
found some one upon whom to wreak 1t.
The efforts to capture Pike were re-
doubled and people came from Colqultt,
Worth, herrien, and other counties
around armed for the search. No
threats were made. however, by the
searchers until Saturday, when 1t was
IearHGQ GuaU dUOub Altl hSSIoeS3 %NAAy
and heavily armed, had congregated
about three miles from where Mr.. Isham
was to be buried that evening, and that
they were there for the purpose OF pro-
tecting Pike if he should be found.
It was given out among the whites,
TOO, and that by negro, that Flke
was in hiding in the neigh borhood, and
til at the negroes were armed Tor the
purpose of preventing his arrest
His place of hiding was revealed TO
the party by the negro and that evening
after the remains had been laid away
a visit was made to the place, but the
negro was not there.
On that trip the whites, now large
in nun bars, encountered party OF ne
aroes. and several shots were exchanged.
1t was a fight after the bushwhacklng
order, and a negro named Henry SneroI,
known to be warm friend of Pixies
was killed.
This killing intensified the feeling be-
tween the two races, and the CROWDS De-
gan to increase on both sides untll tnere
were more than 150:. armed whites and
as many negroes.
Had tine negroes agreed to. deliver
Pike, whom sEthey Iwere undoubted,
guarding, the trouble would have been
short-lived. The negroes dehed the
whites.
The whites then renewed the search.
They first went to the cabin OF LON ray,
Ior. Pixies stepfather. Taylor showed
fight, and voiiey of bullets put stop
to his career.
Eli FrazierI and Sam Pike fred on
some whites they met in the road ana
both were killed. This was the record
up to Saturday night.
No strace OF Waverly Pike. Isham's
murde rer, has yet been found, and the
general opinion is that he is good many
miles from the scene Of the crime. The
men in pursuit OF him are keeping up
the scar CHI in desultory manner, but have
not much hope of finding him. An In
Quest was held this morning over the
bodies of those who have been killed.
Justice of the Peace Byrd of the Morvin
district acted as Coroner. The verdict
of the Jury was that Sam Taylor came to
his death at the hands of E. W. Tilman,
and the others at hands of unknown
persons. Everything is quiet around
isham's now. The crowd of men still
searching for Pike have quieted down,
and are not likelys to commit any furth-
ser acts of violence. The probability is
that they will dispense after tonight,
and that the worst of tho trouble is over.
A late dispatch from Pittman says the
Brooks county war is over. The list
of killed is the same as previously re-
ported. The captain of the Valdosta
Videttes accompanied by his men and
Sheriff Thrasher went over the entire
neigh borhood thoroughly and found ev-
erytning as peaceful as any country dis
trict. The Videttes left for their homes
Saturday.
Brooks county universally condemns.
the lynching of negroes and II 1t posi-,
BILE the guilty parties will be brought to
Justice. Pike, the murderer of Joe
Isham, made his escape.