The San Francisco call., 1899-03-25
DEADLY WAR ON
THE NEGROES
More Than a Dozen Have
Been LynChed.
ARKANSAS MEN IN PURSUIT
TERROR AMONG THOSE WHO
PLOTTED AGAINST WHITES.
A Texas Justice of the Peace Holds
an Inquest and Finds That the
Blacks Died From Nat
ural Causes.
ARKANSAS MEN IN PURSUIT
TERROR AMONG THOSE WHO
PLOTTED AGAINST WHITES.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

TExARKANA, Ark, March PA cor
respondent visited Little River County
to-day and endeavored to get the facts
in regard TO the trouble between the
whites and blacks, but found 1t very
difficult undertaking. The white citizens
are very reticent and are apparently not
willing to give news for publication. The
part of the country through which the
correspondent Travelled was quiet to-day
and there was no outward indication OF
any further trouble.
1t was impossible to learn how many
negroes had really been lynched, as near
~ all the colored population had left the
neighborhood. Red River bottoms,
where most of the lynchings are said to
have occurred, was not visited, but four
- negroes are known 10 have fallen victims
10 the mob's wrath. The few remaining
q negroes in that part of the country traV-
eled through by the correspondent are
still in a state Of great excitement and
fear more trouble. They talk eXcitedly
p of the occurrences Of the past few days
and assert positively that a dozen or more
men have been killed in the Red River
bottoms, mentioning names OF negroes
. who have disappeared since the iyhcnlns dL
of Duckett to subsJanuate their asser-
tons Two WagOn-loadS OF blacks ar
rived in TeXarkana to-day from Little
Details of the wholesale lynching re-
ported TO have occurred in Little River
County Arkansas, are slow IN coming IN;
Three more dead negroes have been IQunQ
in the river bottoms near Rocky Comfort,
Ark. Two of the men, Joe hlnS anu
Moses Jones, were hanged ana Sh0t 10
death. The third body was stTlppe;u en- en-
tireIy naked when found. a Jusuce OF
the Peace held an inquest over theSe p0u-
- les to-day and a verdict was renQereu py
the jury declaring that the men came 10 10
their deaths from natural causes or were
frozen TO death
TIE verdict is regarded as a grewsome
joke. There is some doubt as TO "hepe mere
these lynchings occurred, it being near
the State line and either IN Llttle hiNer
County, Arkansas. or in Bowie county,
Texas. The inquest was held by a Texas
Justice of the Peace.
Joe King is one of the negroes who was
whipped by a crowd OF whites w edneSday
near Comfort. Just after the Iyncnlng
OF DuCkett a Constable went to King and
told him that Duckett had been Iynched
for the assassination of Farmer stockton
King replied that he knew all about the
Stockton killing and said that the farmer
. ought to have been killed sooner, and also
intimated that others would be killed be
fore the matter was settled
" a crowd or indignant WhlJes TOOK MN
to the woods, where he was thoroughly
whipped and released. It is not known
Shere or by whom he afterward was
Strung up but he no doubt fell into the
hands Of one of the lynching parties that
were organized after the plots of the
negroes to start a race war We're un-
eaTthed.
Afterward johnson was whipped by the
game crowd who took King in hand, and
as he has not been accounted for since,
it is believed that he met his death at
the end of q rope somewhere in the vicin-
ity Of Red River.
Many sensational reports are reaching
: here to-day from the scene Of the dis
turbance, but very little authentic in
formation can be gathered. One report
states that the whites are still out in or
ganized posses hunting the leaders of
The negro revolutionary plot with the
ayowed intention Of stTinging them up
wherever found. Another report states
that the negroes are recovering from
their panicky terror and are securing
arms and threatening vengeance on the
whites. If this proves true, serious trou-
bic may result.
General Duckett, the first man hanged,
was a power among the negroes and had
many followers. A cOlored man who ar
rived here from Walton says that all the
negroes in the neighborhood Of Rocky
Comfort and Richmond have left their
homes and are afraid to return. A large
number of them have crossed the Red
River and gone into Bowie County
Texas. He says that more negroes have
been killed than have yet been reported