The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-10-29
One White Man Is Killed and Sew
eral Wounded hi the Bat
tie With Negroes.
NINE OF The COLoRED MEN klLlFE
Attempt to Arrest a Negro Causes
the Whole Country to
Arm Itself.
FURTHER TROUBLE is EXPECTED
Governor McIaurin HIS Gone to
the Scene or the Trouble mud
Armed Men Are After
the Negroes.

Foster, Miss, Oct. 25.-As the re-
suit of an attempt to arrest a negro
near Harpersville, Scott county, in
the east part of the state, one white
deputy was killed, three wounded and
according to the latest reports nine
negroes have been killed by the citi-
zens of Harpcrsyille and neighborhood
and the sheriff posse combined. The
pursuit of about fifty negroes which
had joined the original offender with
the ayowedS determination to prevent
his arrest and capture, and which am
pushed the party attempting the ar
the number of fatalities will undoubt-
edly have assumed larger proportions
The whole country is terribly aroused
and the sherif's posse has been rein
forced with men from all the neigh
boring towns. Gov. McLaurin has
gone to the scene, which is about ten
miles north of Forest, the nearest
railroad point. The trouble originated
last Friday, when a negro named Bill
Burke had an alteration with his em-
ployer, Charles Freeman, u white
man, i'll which the negro got the best
of the difficulty. The next night u
crowd of white men, headed by Wal
lace Sibley, went to Burke's house. n
mile from Harpersville. When they
arrived upon the scene and called for
Burke they We're greeted by a fusilade
from the negroes concealed in the
bushes surrounding the house and in
the house itself. Wallace Sibley fell
dead at the first voiley and three more
white members of the crowd-James
Johnson, James Hamilton and james
Wells-were wounded. The whites
returned the fire, but were unable to
do any execution, as their ASSISTANTS
were all concealed. There was not
more than eight men in the white
crowd, and finding it impossible to re-
sist effectively they dispersed toward
~Harpersville.
Aroused Llle Country.
When the whites returned to Har-
persville the news spread like Wild
fire. During the night a large crowd
went to Burke's house and got from
his mother the names of forty negroes
who had ambushed the men the night
before. Then the pursuit and search
for each of the prescribed darkies be-
gan. Yesterday morning Sheriff Ste
venson of H~arpersville gathered to-
gether a posse of twenty or thirty
men and started at once for the place.
Wren he arrived in the afternoon he
was joined by 900 citizens.
A telephone message received at 2
late hour last night states that nine
negroes have been found and killed,
with about forty more to be heard
from. Sheriff Stevenson, realizing thei
danger, Immediately wired Governor
McLaurin, at Brandon, of aid. Upon
receipt of this telegram the governor
wired Adjutant General Henry, Mt
jackson, to get together a company of
the national guard and proceed to the
scene on the first train. General Hen
iry Immediately responded that there
WAS no national guard company OBJ
tainable, but that he would get to-
gether a company of armed men and.
render all necessary assistance. In
the meantime the governor procured
q special train at Brandon and accom-
panied by q. posse of thirty men, armed
with shotguns, proceeded to Forest
Arriving here early in the evening and
finding that there was small danger of
the riot assuming proportions beyond
the ability of the posse on hand 10
keep in bounds, he wired General Hem
ry that it would be unnecessary for
linn to bring his volunteers to Har-
persville.
The posse is operating in the
swamps about a mile from Harpsville,
where most of the fugitives are sup
posed to be concealed.