The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-24
A RACE WAR IN ARKANSAS
BODIES OF SEVEN LYNCHED Me-
GROES ALPEADY FOUND.
Hanging to Limbs of Trees in Various
Parts of Little River County-M obs
Heavily Armed and Negroes Fleeing
Tor Their Livcs-COunty In State of
Most Intense Excitement.

Texarkana, Ark, March ga race
war is on in Little River county and
during the last orty-eight hours an in
definite number of negroes have met
their death at the hands of the white
people. Several are known to have
been lynched. The bodies of the vic
Tins of the mob's vengeance are hang
ing to the limbs of trees in various
parts of the county. The county is in
a state of most intense excitement.
White men are collecting in mobs heav-
lily armed and determined negroes are
fleeing for their lives. The exact num-
ber of negroes who have been summa-
rily dealth with may never be known.
Seven bodies have been found and 9TH
er victims are being hunted and will
meet a similar fate when run to earth.
The known dead to date are: General
Duckett, Edwin Goodwin, Adam King,
Jos. JONES' Ben Jones, Moses Jones,
and an unknown man. Joe King and
John Johnson were also taken in hand
by mobs and whipped. They were af-
forwards turned loose and have disap-
peared.
Little River county is in the extreme
southwest corner of the state, being
bordered on the west by the Indian ter
r1tory, and on the south by Texas. The
negro population is large, and has for
a long time proved very troublesome.
Frequent murders have occurred, and
thefts and fights have become common
affairs. One or two negroes have pre-
yiously been severely dealt with when
the people found 1t necessary to take
the law it their own hands, but it was
not until Tuesday that the trouble as
sumed serious aspect. 1t then devel- |
oped that carefully laid plans had been
made by a number of negroes to precip-
itate a race war and that many white
men had been marked for victims. 1t
were implicated in this plot. and the |
whites are now bent on melting out |
summary punishment to the entire |
coterie Of conspirators Seven have
been killed, and the work of wiping out I
the entire list continues without relax
alton. All implicated in the plot are I
known and parties of white men, vary
ing In number from twenty-five to fifty
are securing the county for them.
Wherever one is found he is quickly
strung up and his body perforated with
bullets. The work of dispatching the
first two or three was an easy matter.
But the news soon spread among the
negroes, who instead of making the re-
sistance and offering the battle that
they had threatened, became panic
and began getting out of the
as quickly as possible. Two
whose names We're on the list of con-
spirators got gbod start and succeed
ed in reaching the Texas state line be-
fore being overtaken.
The trouble arose over the killing of
or to the lynching of Duckett, the me-
groes had planned the Inauguration of
a race war. Duckett was the leader,
and at his death the negroes let the
matter out. The citizens became great
" enraged. Joe King and John Johnson
were taken to the woods and whipped
The other negroes made threats but
nothing occurred until yesterday, when
the wholesale lynching began In the
gang that was plotting for a race war
were twenty-three negroes, and it is
probable that the entire number has
been killed. 1t is known to certainty
that the seven ringleaders are dead.
The negroes are fleeing from the dis .
rict. Three wagons flied with negroes
arrived at Texarkana to-day, having
crossed the Red river at Index last