The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-11-08
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A RACE W AR !.
Whites and Blacks in Battle for
Halt an Tic ur.
a TRAGIC STORY OF BLOOD

20 You Want Any Mors2 And.
the An, wsr Comes From
tbs Blacks mo- 4
Several Killed
A speoial to the New O,Ieaus Pioa.
yune from Ball Town, La, eaye that
the raoo war between the blacks md
whites which stsyted at negro caInp
meeting at Duncan Chapel Sundays
forms q story Of blood uneauslIed III
tho history Of the Pearl river valley. l
Ono white man is dead another, ID
dying with a bullet hole through his
stomaoho, and third white man is
badly iDjured. s23 3.i N "A sl5I
Nine negroes were killed in the
bloody sffrsy; five mon, three women
and ono small child Adczen or nor.
maps moro negroes escaped to tho woods
ana swamls with Wounds that are be- Z
ileve to be certain death in the brush
away from medical care. 5,,5 N
Tho dead, white: Joseph Seal, son
OF Willis Seal, aged 80 reisdonoe at
Varapdo, La. Wounded, whito: Olar-
enoo Thomas Elliott, agsd 26, fatally
wounded now dying, residence Varan-S
do La. Edward Thompson, 45, shot
through thigh and aeshy portion OF the
leg, residence, Varando. Dead, color.
ed: Rov. Alexander Connolly SO, pas
tor Dancan Chapel, Mary Davis, 80,
his daug ghteI; C,esr Lott, 46; Julia
Peter, Lotto daughter, "a; Mellon
Peters, her ohild, 4; Amy rony, rs.
mother-iD law Of Orear Lott; Lowia
Duncan, l8, son Of Helen Duncan. liy-s
lng in Popl:rville: Thomss Parker. "a:
Kid Beverly, 18, turpentine worker
from Georgia.
No ono js tble to estimate the num-
Dor Of wouadod negroes who escsped
tho carnage bohihd The church. They
scattered in all directions Some are
known to havo been shot, bat they hayo$
not been found. 81 .s' S,5
Tho COZ hiot ragged for an hour. Those
ata distance say tho firing gounded
like battle botweon troops. 81 5.,5 I.. 81
10 the camp meeting negroes had
ooJao from 200 miles, ali IN and down
the valloy. ]EldeE Stephen Duncan ofX
New oflosns for whom the chapel iwas I
named, aaa present. & 81 "; S3
e On last Thursday the moeting .ope n I
Cd with several hundred negroes en-
oamped around the church, in tents
and in rudely constructed shsntios.
On the day previous to the camp
meeting, WHOM the negro, Bill Norris, f
had boon burned at tho stake near Bal
Town tor an assault on AIrs. j j. Ball,
public feeling was at q ghS pitch. sS5Fs
Under those oond ditions tho i1oRroeB =
catered at Live @ ak There was trou.
blo over Q ilioenae and Oroar Lott s tent
became tho oentye Of contention, Some
trouble occurred Saturday evening. but
there was no bloodshed. t. came up
again Sunday afternoon when Oonsta.
pie Boon and o posse rodo up to Lott's
tent with o warrant.
Lott came out and is reported to have
shouted with an oath: ~ 2. ! 3t
One negro has been burned, but
whito man will be Next
Wade Walker, one Of the constable'a
posse, was struck over tho head With
Winchester, and then tho slaughter
began. The blacks fed from tho frAil>
wooden church, for it was no shelter
from t'' tho rain OF bullets. Lott retired
into his tcnt, shooting and fighting.
John Seal received his death wound.
Preacher Connolly was shot while
standing In his yard. His daughter fell
just inside the house. The other ne.
groes around Lofts place kept Jup 8
steady rain of huilots. -3s IS
Lofts old mother.in. law, his two
daughters and the little boy fell in q
heap inside the shelter. Sophie Lott
saved her life by concealing herself be
hind the stove. Thon she escaped and
tho mon did not harm her. They were
aftor Oroar Lott. 55'.
Ho was bsrricaded and the next move
was to fire the place, which they did.
| When the fro reached him from under
cover no appeared in the doorway and
twenty rifle balls went crashing
through him. He fell in heap, head
foremost on tho ground. Parker and
Beverly, both blacks foil with him.
For twenty. four hours it looked ss If
q general uprising would wipe out the
black raoo in Washington parish. Over
ZOO armed mon yosterday wore at tho
soene Of tho battle. 4
Tho negroes who were loft in q heap
whore they had diod, were piled into
thoir unmarked graves, dug near the
oharrod romans Of Lofts tent house.
Ihore was no ceremony. Tho minister
and his daug filled ono Of the holes.
tho woman and q child the other, tho
mon o third. AT the sano time pro-
minent oiiizsns held q conferences.
which was attended by Sheriff Sim.
mons, and a mossage was sent to tho
negroes: DO you went any more
NO" camo tho reply.
This had q quoting ,effeot and the
nogroos left the, country. It Id believed
thoro Will ho no turther trouble.
"I'll Smash Everythingl" a
The German press ID discussing ii
lively fashion the following uttoranoo q
attributed to Emperor William
Ii no commercial troaties are nero. l
ti.sttd ! shall smash everything to
pieooB." n 3 3. " | q 81 ssa
In IAN address AZ a mootipg Of the
Fleet Sooiety in Hanover, Ospt. Won
| Woltheim, of Gorman Navy, IL repre-.
gonted to have said; 5@ '.ssl::
Goruasny'D interonts in tks Ave res
publics Of Central America, in view of
American competition, |, can only be-
maintained whom We have q cot strong
enough to say TO the Amorio oena Hands
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