Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-23
ALEXANDRIA VA TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 23, 1908
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RACE WAR IN TEXAS.


dead, a race riot is in progress between
armed whites and blacks. the state
rangers and militia have been called
out and the whole OF east.ra Texas Is
setthing in the throes of hatred against
the negro as the result of the murder
of two white men Saturday near Hemp
hill.
At midnight Sunday $50 armed men
marched to the jail at Hemphill, and,
ait overpowering the jsiler and guards,
took out six negroes. Five were i'm
medislely s'ruug up to nearby tees,
aud the sixth, attempting 20 escape In
A ght, ~ss shot down. These negroes
were Ned Williams, Jerry Evans, viii
johnson, Moss SpellmsU, Cleve Will
liams and Will Manuel. The oldest
was 27 and the youngest %. Th'y
had been jailed, charged W th cOmpl'ti,y y
10 The murder of Hugh A Dean, a
young white farmer.
Yesterday tsrDoon Burgha Single
ton, Hardi Evans and Henry Thomas,
all negroes, wtr, found dead on the
roadside between Hemphill and Genevs,
their bodies riddled with bullets.
They: too, were alleged II have had q
hand in tae plot TO hi Dean.
Following the disclosures yesterday
morning, the fsrners of the vicinity
armed themselves with fl s and shot
guns and pistols and stf rtsd on syste-
matte hunt after every negro of known
bsd tendencies.
At the same time pistols and other
weapons began to be seen 10 the hands
of negroes and the county peace officers
found they we're powerless TO cope with
the situation. Hurried appeals w'rs
m ade 10 the governor, aud sqIsrd Of
ksng, rs was ordered to the scene.
This was the condition when the news
went b0aidcalt TINT Aaron Johnson,
another white farmer, had been shot
down while sitting on his porch with
his sife aud baby. His brains and
blood were spatlered over them. His
wife, cri zed at the act Of the negroes.
gave Chase, screaming with all her
might.
White men, rAiding the countryside
for negroes, herd her. When they
reached her abe was sitting beside the
body of her husband, insane. II Was
then that the VIII t. men went f rih aud
soon the crack of their pistols por ended
lhst the death had been visited on
someone.
Lstr the bodies of Singleton, Evans
aud Thomas were found. Alrasdy
charged with having hand in the death
Of Dean, the three negroes met sum-
mary vengeance when they encountered
the white men.
.Johus1n's death increased the tensity
of the situstiOn. The three dead negroes
Wer5 known to be pals OF fourth; this
foul th was searched for and not found
the officers had beat the avengers to
him.
Captured in cOrnfeld, the negro,
Perry Price, WAS spirited to San Angus
tine after making confession that he
had been given s. by Robert Wright,
Johnson's br ther-in-law, to kill John
son. Wright was then arrested, and Is
now in jail at Cer t r, Tex. The Jail is
guarded heavily, as The ramor has gone
forth lh mob of white men have cap
t1red Houston east and west Texas
train, and is forcing the engineer to run
to Cent in order thst they may take
Wright aud hang him.
The condition of frenzied hatred
against the negro came as the result of
the shooting of white man by ne
groes a week ago. Alta negro dance
Saturday week ago William StimsoD,
white man, had row, ending in his
being killed with rszOr Two negroes
we're srrettsd for the crime. Last Sat-
uidsy night Hugh Dean, one of the best
known young wbits fsrnsrs, was also
shot at a negro dance. WAS proven
that he was merely ridi' & 1y when
drunken negroes set on him aud stabbed
him t. death. Six negroes we're arrested
and put in the Hemphill Jail. These
were tle six lynched, sever tn is still
at large and reward OF $3.50 is out for
him.