The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-06-10
A HOT TIME.
a Colored Picnic from Charleston
Broken Up by
BAD TEN NILE HILL NIGGERs

] O6O 1GN Mill a4LA N1O01ho
who Attacked the City Folks With
Guns and Clubs. Six Car
ried Back to the City
Wounded
! The Charleston Post says a fierce
battle with guns, pistol and knives
was fought at LadSon, a station on
the Southern railway, seventeen miles
from Charleston. on Monday. June L..
between Ch"-lcston negroes, who had
gone to La6son to take part in a pic
mic given by the jenkins Orphanage,
and several hundred country negroes. :
Shooting irons were used freely and
about twenty-five negroes were wound
ed. though not seriously. a man,
woman and child. whose identity are
unknown. are said to have been killed,
though the report is discredited.
The eXcursioniStS returned to the
city with the wounded Charleston
negroes. Six were sent to the city
hospital, and others went to their
homes. The country negroes who
were shot did not come into the CITY,
The negroes sent to the hospital were
picked up on the streets by the police.
They were: William Grant, shot in
side and leg, found on America street;
William Pryor, George kenzie, Henry
Langston, James Allen and William
| Perrin, found on Line street, suffering
from gun shot wounds.
Monday the annual picnic Of the
jenkins Orpanage was given at the
grounds of the jenkins Reformatory
at Ladson. The Rev. D. J Jenkins,
who is at the head of both the orphan
age and the reformatory carried about
1,700 negroes on a special train.
When the reformatory grounds were
reached, the Charleston negroes We're
met by large number of negroes
from Ten Mile ana the country:
adjacent to Ladson. The latter were:
armed with guns, rifles, pistols and
knives They told the city negroes
that they had come to have good
time and that they must not inter
| fere.
The morning hour passed off With
out trouble, but along about 2 o'clock.
in the afternoon the Ten Mile Hill
negroes wanted to dance in the re-
. formatory building, and the Rev.
jenkins put stop to it, declaring.
that he would noe allow his picnic to:
be turned into a dance. His action
incensed the country negroes, and
serious trouble commenced. One, Of.
the Ten Mile Hill crowd drew a pistol
on the Rev. Jenkins, and the city
negroes rushed up to taken his part:
There was much wranging, blows
were passed and fire arms were dis
played. The trouble was settled for a
time.
The country negroes organized them
selves into regiment. and sent word
to the town negroes that they wanted
satisfaction, and invited them down:
to the road near a creek. The invita-
tion was accepted The ring leader:
of the conntry forces. armed with a
long rifle, led his command against
the picnic crowd He was overpower-
ed, his gun was taken from him, and
he was shot with his own rifle. He
was also badly cut, but none Of his
wounds are thought to be serious.
After being shot he retired from the
game.
The battle was kept up for several
hours, and shot after shot was fired.
The Rev. jenkins gathered his Or
phans together and the female men,
bers Of his crowd and remained under
cover until about o'clock in the
afternoon the hour for the excursion
train to pull out of Ladson. Hundreds
of negroes made for the station as
soon as the shooting commenced,
where they remained, all the after
noon, fearing to venture forth. Some
were so badly frightened that
they walked FIVE miles to SummerVille,
returning to the city this morning.
When the excursion train, consisting
of seventeen coaches, was made up
to bring the picnickerS back to the
city, everybody thought that the
trouble was over, but, just as the
train pulled out from the station, a,
a country negro fred into it, which
was the signal for other shots and a
constant firing was kept up until the
train was out of range.
When fire was opened on the train
by the angry mob Of country. negroes,
the widest excitement prevailed in
the coaches. Men, women and chill
dren crouched under the seats. Some
locked themselves up in the toilet
rooms, and small negro boys climbed
up into the bundle racks in the top of
the cars. livery pane was powdered
and it is said that the train came in
Charleston Monday night with not
single head out Of car window. The
shots fred into the coaches broke win
dow panes and several passengers were
peppered. One woman was shot in
the arm, and a small colored boy
WOundeQ III Cne pack. None WIS KILL
ed.
The Southern railway authorities
have taken the matter up, and will
make every effort to apprehend the
negroes who fired into the train. a
reward Of $50 will be paid for the
arrest Of the parties that did the
shooting The Rev. jenkins says tnat
the widest kind Of excitement prevail
ed, and the country negroes thirsted
for blood. They swarmed about the
train like Indians, all the time keep
ing up loud shouts. AS the train
passed Ten Mile Hill, some one fired a
shot into passenger coach.
Chopped off Mans Head.