The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-11
TROUBLE 1T REHOBETH, roo.
Five Negroes and One White Man Killed
 Others Mortally Wounded.

Others Mortally Wounded. Washington, Nov. 10.-A special to the Post from Greenwood S. C., says: Five negroes lay dead at Rehobeth all day along the roadside and four others i are probably dead and lost in the woods. One white man was buried, three others lie at the point of death and more have been wounded. Four heads of families have left the country and an armed troop of cavalrymen is securing the county. All of this is the outcome of an election row, yesterday. The following is list of the dead and wounded:
 Killed K. I. Etherdge, white, killed at polls; Thomas rolbert mortally wounded at same time; Wade Hampton, colored; Jesse Williams. colored; Dreyton Williams, col ored; William Jackson. colored Brick Har- rison and Hen Johnson.
 Wounded-Sidney Tolbert, fifteen years of age; dangerously: John R. Tobert, white, collector of the port at Charleston, wound ed; Stuart Miller, white, mortally wounded shoulder; H. J. Young, shot in foot Cleave Armstrong; who tried to protect the ne- groes, shot in the neck
 In addition to these two, and likely four negroes are dead in the woods near where the five bodies lay to-day. The trouble was precipitated on elec- tion and when two or three hundred negroes at the polls opened a fusilade against the store in which the voting was going on. In this fight Etheridge second occasion for the provocation was that a party hunting the slayers of Etheridge was fired into and one, Miller, fatally wounded, and another, Fleming badly hurt. The arnng of the negroes at the polls, the killing of Etberidge, the firing from ambush, all conspired to kindle a flame of passion and when that will die down it is diff ficult to tell.
 The incident of the day was the kill ing of Essex Harrison. Down the road came squad of mounted cavalrymen with Harrison marching ahead, with guns and rifles drawn on him. Fifteen men lined up on the roadside. The negro was put out in the road and made to go toward the pile of four dead ne- groes. He started, there was ring of rifles and Harrison pitched forward dead. Harrison, it is alleged, was member of the crowd that killed Eth eridge Parties were out searching all day for the negroes who were the ring leaders in the rioting. The whites are particularly incensed 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 to kill a wounded and dying man. John R. Tolbert, collector of the port at Charleston, and Joe Tolbert left the county and went to Charleston Reed Tolbert has gone to Greenville. Ezra Tolbert is quartered with friends. His son was shot and severely wound ed. A committee waited on J. w. Tol- bert. assistant postmaster at McCor- macks. and ordered him to get out of that town. He left. Several of the whites wanted to burn Tolbert's prop erty. but better advice prevailed.
 Fully 300 men secured the country hoping to find the negroes said to be COnReSIeu III IHS IlClSllpOl ic Tolberts are of good family, made fine southern soldiers and have been repub- licans since the war. The whites are heavily armed and are p-eqared for trouble at any moment. Guards and regular sentinels were posted last night. The two negroes who are known to have shot Etheridge have not yet been captured. Eight negroes have been lynched within two weeks in the neigh boring counties. Ben Collins, colored, was killed tonight in Phoenix. He is said to have fired one pistol shot into the polling place and reached for an other weapon. News has just been re- ceived that the mob lynched another negro near Phoenix this afternoon. His name was Jeff Darling and he was inn plicated>n the election riot and the kill ing of Etheridge.