The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-11-06
4 RACE WAR.
Wilkes and Blacks in Sattie for
Halt an Hour.
A TRAGIC STORY OF BLOOD.
DO You Want Any More? And
Ghe Aaswar Comes From
tho Blacks mo"
&evAyoI k;ssaS
Several Killed

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| A special to the New Oilears Pics
yune from Ball Town, Ls., says that
the rsoe wac between the blacks and
whites which started at q negro camp
meeting at Duncan Chapel Sunday
forms story Of blood uneeualled in
the history Of the Pearl river valley.
| Oae white man is dead another is
dying With o bullet hole through his
eromacae, and thxd white man is
badly injured.
Nine negroes were killed in the
bloody aH:sy; FIVE men, three VOICE
and one email child. Adozea OF per-
haps more aeg1oes escaped to the woods
! and sSamps with wounds that are be-
lis7ei to be certain death. in the brush
away from medical care.
The dead, white: Joseph Seal, son
Of Willis Seal, aged 80 residence as
Vsrando, La. Wounded, white: Olsr-
ence Thomas Elliott, sgsd 26, fatally
wounded ro# dying, residence Ya-an-
do Ls. Eixssd Thompson, As, shot
through thigh and Heshy portion Of the
leg, residence, Varando. Dead, color.
ed: Rev. Alexander Connolly 80, pss-
tor Duncan Chapel, Mary Davis, 80,
his daughter; OEear Lott, 46; Julis
Peters, Lofts daughter, "a, Mellon
Peters, her child, 4; Amy Fony, %,
mother-in:laW Of Crear Lott; Lewis
Duncan, Is, son Of Helen Duncan, liv-
ing il Poplar7ille: Thomas Parker, a.,
Kid Bsvsriy, Is, 5 turpe1tine worker
from Georgia.
No one IS able to estimate the num-
Der Of wounded negroes who escaped
the carnage behind the church. They
scattered in all directions. Some are
known to have been shot, bltthey have
not been found.
The conflict ragged fcr an hour. Those
ct a distance say the firing sounded
| like battle between troops.
To the camp meeting negroes had
come from 200 miles, all up and down
the valley. Elder Stephen Duncan, Of
New Orleans for whom the chapel was
named, Nas present.
On last Thursday the meeting OPEN
ed with several hundred negroes en-
eamped around the church, in tents
and in rudely constructed shanties.
On the day previous to the camp
meeting, Wnea the negro, Bill Morris,
had been burned az the stake near Bali
Town for 81 assault on Mrs. j. j. Ball,
public feeling was st high pitch.
Under those conditions the negroes
gatered at Live Oak. There was trou-
bic over license and Crear Lofts tent
becams the centre Of contention. Some
trouble occurred Saturday evening, but
there Rss no bloodshed. It came up
again Sunday afternoon when Consta-
bls Boon snd posse rode up to Lofts
tent with i Tsrrans.
Lott came out and is reported to have
shoused ~lsh an oath:
''One negro has been burned, but
Whits ,asn will be next.
Wade Walker, one Of the constsble's
posse, Vas struck over the head with
i Winchester, and then the slaughter
began. fhe blacks fed from the trail
wooden charca, for it was no shaker.
from t2e rain OF bullets. Lott retired
into lis tent, shooting and 6sasing.
john Seal received his daaan wound.
Preacher Connolly was shot while
standing il his yard. His dsngater fell
iuss INSIDE the house. The other Ne
sroes around LasG's piaoe kept up q
| steady rain OF tullsss.
LOFTS old nolhar.in.laE, his two
daughters and the little boy fell in .
i"hesp inside the shelter. Sophie Lots
saved her lie bS eonceating herself be
hind the stove. Then she escaped and
the men dad not harm her. They were
afser Uresr Lott.
He vas b2rricsded and the next move
was to fire the p!sos, which they did.
Wnen the FIRE reached him from under
cover hs appeared in the doorway and
twenty rifle balls went crashing
through him. He fell in hesp, head
foremost On the ground. Parker and
Beverly, both blacks fell with him.
Eor tmensy.four hours it looked as Il
general uprising would wipe out the
black race IN Washington parish. Over
LOCO armed men yesterday were at the
scene Of the bsssle.
The negroes who we're left in heap
where they mad died, were piled into
their unmarked graves, dug near the
charrsd remains of Lofts tent house.
There was no ceremony. The minister
snd his daughter filed one Of the holes,
the woman and q child the other, the
men third. At the same time pro-
mineas citizens held q conference.
which vas attended BY Sheriff Sim
mons, and message wss sent to the
negroes: DO sou want any more2"
NO" came the reply.
This had quietinE effect and the
negroes left the country. It is believed
there will be 10 further trouble.
"I'll Smash Everything!''
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