The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-24
Mob's Vengeance On
the Negroes.
SEVEN LYNCHED.
Exciting Times in Little
River County, Arkansas.

Texarkana, Ark, March ga race
war is on in Little River county, and
during the last As hours an indefinite
number of negroes have met their death
at the hands of the white population.
Seven are known to have been lynched
and the work is not yet done.
The bodies of the victims of the
mob's vengeance are hanging to the
limbs of trees in various parts of the
county. The country is in a state of
most intense excitement. White men
are collecting in mobs heavily armed
and determined; negroes are fleeing for
their lives. The exact number of ne
groes who have been summarily dealt
with may never be known. Seven
bodies have been found and other vic
tins are being hunted and will meet
similar fate when run to earth. The
known dead to date are:
Genera" Duckett.
Edwin Goodwin
Adam King.
Joseph Jones.
benjamin Jones.
Moses Jones.
Unknown man
Joseph King and John johnson were
also taken in hand by mobs and
whipped. They were afterward turned
loose and have disappeared. Little
River county is in the extreme south
west corner of the state, being Dor
oered on the west by the Indian ter
rltofy ana on the south by Texas The
negro population is large and has for
| d IL
frequent murders have occurred and
tnetts and fights have become common
! affairs
one or two negroes have previously
oeen severely dealt with when the peo-
PIE FOUND 1t necessary to take the law
INTO thelr own hands, but it was not
until Tuesday that the trouble as
suLleu serious aspect. 1t then de-
Neloped that carefully laid plans haC
been made by a number of negroes t.
preclpitate a race war and that many
White men had been marked for vic.
tins.
1t is learned that 20 negroes were i'm.
| pncated in this plot, and the whites ar,
now bent on meeting out summary
punishment to the entire coterie OF
| conspirators. Seven have been Killed
and the work of wiping out the entire
list continues without relaxation. All
implicated in the plot are known, and
parties Of white men, varying in num-
Der from 25 to so, are securing the
country for them.
Wherever one is found, he is quickly
strung up, and his body perforated
with bullets. The work of dispatchine
the first two or three was an easy mat
ter. But the news soon spread among
/ the negroes, who, instead of making
the resistance and Offering the battle
they had threatened, became panic
stricken and began getting out Of the
| community as quickly as possible. Two
whose names were on the list of con
| spirators, got good start and succeed
ed In reaching the Texas state line be-
fore being overtaken. They were
swung up without ceremony
The trouble arose over the killing of
James Stockton by Duckett. Just pri-
or to the lynching of Duckett, the ne
groes had planned the Inauguration of
race war. Duckett was the leader,
and at his death the negroes let the
matter out. The citizens became
greatly enraged. Joe King and John
johnson were taken to the woods and
whipped. Other negroes made threats,
but nothing occurred until yesterday,
when the wholesale lynching began.
Three wagons filled with negroes ar
rived at Texarkana today having
crossed Red River at Index last night.