Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-27
EXODUS ON WITH A RUSH
Estimated That Over 5000 Negroes
Have Already Fled.
Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt Have Carried Away 5OO Each
and Over 5000 Lett by Other Modes
OF Travel

The exodus is certainly on, and
the negroes are leaving the city by
trains, wagons and on foot. The Cit
ton Belt has carried about 800 ne
g1oes out of the city and the Iron
Mountain has carried an equal num-
bers The liverymen have carried
1gafe5 num6ers away, and hundreds
SShaye gone away On foot. 1t is esti-
mated that between 5000 and 1000
have gone away who did not leave on
trains. making total of over 5000
who have fed from the city. Every
outgoing train has more passengers
and baggage than can be accommodate
ed. and the Iron Mountain and Cotton
Belt have made requisition for about
1000 extra tickets each to accommo-
date those who will leave tonight and
tomorrow.
Ellen Burnett Jefferson, the ne
STCSS VIII JolApOo lAto plO Ill
day by her prophecy to the effect
that Pine Bluff would be destroyed
by tornado next Friday is in the
Jefferson county jail, on the charge
of insanity Sheriff James Gould
states that she is about as mentally
unbalanced as any person he has ever
seen. She will be taken to the asy-
lum at Little Rock today. Despite the
fact that the report has been wide.
spread to the effect that the woman
is not sane, the effect of her utter
ances will hardly be abated. The sew
eral phases of weather which she
said would presage the coming Of the
storm, although common at this Pc
riod of the year, have, as usual, as
serted themselves, and are taken by
the superstitious negroes and whites
as assurance that tne storm will come.
A citizen of Sulphur Springs, in the
city today, states that he has rented
all the houses thereabouts, for white
people who will go there next Friday.
Sulphur Springs is seven miles from
Pine Bluff, and the ''prophetessD mas
stated that people six miles from
this city would be immune from the
storms trouble.
The Pine Bluff Brick company
closed yesterday for lack OF labor
The colored BARRIERS Of the city
claim they are not afraid, and have
proffered their services as walters al
the hotels. All the negro walters
have already announced they Will
leave.
The Sawyer and Austin Lumber
company, in order to retain their op'
eratives on the fated day. have con-
spcuously posted notices over their
plant to the effect that train Will be
on the tracks awaiting the employees
and at the first indication OF danger
all may flee to the train, wrlch VIII
be Immediately pulled into territory
which is not subject to the storm.
In the adjoining counties the coun
Try folk have received word that inc
local banking institutions would seno
their money out of Pine Bluff until
the entire trouble is passed. There
is not the slightest foundation fo1
this story. However. number OF
countrymen are in the city today with
diswing their money to keep it AZ
home. One of them is man whc
some years ago did not believe IN
banks, and kept his money in mole
in the ground, until day when ne
found only the hole where his money
had been Since that time, until to
cay, he has patronized the banks
here
On nearly every country road since
Monday negroes can be seen, WIFI
wagonloads of house furnishing goods
making for some place in the country
At the Iron Mountain and Cotton
Belt depots yesterday over 1900 out
of-town tickets were sold, and extra
baggage cars have been added to al