The Portland daily press., 1898-11-11
Three More White Persons Are
Fatally Wounded.
THE TROUBLE ALL OUTCOME OF
AN ELECTION ROW.

Whites Are Greatly Incensed Against the
Tolberts, the Leading Republicans of
Greenwood, s. c., Where the Fighting
Occnrred-Negroes Said to Have
Opened Fire ON Polling Place.
Washington, November 10.-A special
to the Post from Greenwood, S. c., says:
Five negroes lay dead at Rehobeth.
all day, along the roadside. another was
killed today and likely four others are
dead and lost in the woods.
One white man was killed, three others
lie at the point of death and more have
been wounded. Four heads of families
have left the country and armed troops Of
countrymen are securing the country,
hunting other victims All of this is
the outcome Of an election row. Follow.
ing is list of the dead andfweunded:..
Killed.-J. /. Etheridge. white, ,skilled
at polls; Thomas Tolbert, white, mortalIy
wounded at the same time; Wade Hamp.
ton Mckinney, Jesse Williams, Drayton
Watts, Lem jackson, all colored, killed
yesterday. Essex Harrison and Ben Col
Inns, colored, killed today.
Wounded-Sidney Tolbert. 10 years old.
dangerously; John r. Tolbert, white, col
lector of the port at Charleston and chair
man of the Republican state committee;
stu art Miller, white, M ortally wounded
in head; Croweil Fleming, white. shot in
sho ulder; Fl. J. Younger, shot in foot;
Cleave Armstrong, who tried to protect
the negroes, shot in the neck.
In addition to these, two, and likely
four negroes are reported to be dead in
the woods near where the five bodies lay
today.
The trouble was precipitated on cleo
ton day when two or three hundred me-
groes at the polls opened fusilade
against the store in which the voting was
going on. In this fight Etheridge was
killed and Tolbert wounded.
The second occasion for provocation
was that party hunting the slayers Of
Etheridge was fired into and one, Miller,
fatally wounded and another, Fleming,
badly hurt. The arning of the negroes,
at the polls the killing of Etheridge, the
kindle flame of passion and when that
| will die down it is difficult to tell. Jesse
| Williams and two others are said to have
| confessed to have taken part in the am
| bush.
| The incident of the day was the killing
| of Essex harrison. Down the road came
squad of mounted cavalry men with
Harrison marching ahead with guns
and rifles drawn on him. Fifteen men
lined upon the roadside. The negro was
| put out in the road and told to go toward
the pile of four dead negroes. He started,
| there was a ring of rifles and Harri son
pitched forward dead. Harrison, it Is
alleged, was a member of the crowd
| that killed Etheridge
@Parties were out searching all day for
the negroes who were the ring leaders in
! the rioting. The whites are greatly In
censed against all the Tolberts and hold
| them responsible for the trouble
| A party went to kill Tom Tolbert, but
some one prevailed on the hot heads not
| so kill a wounded.and dying man. John
| X. Tolbert and Joe Tolbert left the coun-
| ty and went to Charleston. Reel Iolhert
| has gone to Greenville. Ezra Tolbert is
quartered with friends. His son was
shot, and this, with the plea that be Is
non partisan and has wife and nine
| children, alone saved him from death. A
committee waited on j. W. Tolbert,
assistant postmaster at Mccormick 8 ana
ordered him to get out of that town. lie
| left. ela
Fully 300 men secured the country to-.
day around Phoenix, where the first
trouble occurred hoping to find the bands
of negroes said to be congregating in the
neighborhood. The Tolberts are of good
family. made fine Sou thern soldiers and
| have been Republicans since the war.
| The atmosphere seemed to have cleared
up considerably this afternoon and no
| further trouble is expected. Eight negroes
have been lynohed within two weeks
time in nelghboring counties.
Ben Collins, colored, was killed to-
night near Phoenix. He is said to have
| fired one pistol shot into the polli ng
place and reached for another weapon.
News has Just been received that the
mob Iynohed another negro near Phoenix
This this afternoon. His name was Jstf
! Daring and he was implicated in the
Y eIeotion riot and the killing of Etheridge.
|S DREYFUS COMING BACK.
| Nro~ox~,bor 1f-Tha paric cor.