The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-08-17
Blacks and yaipes Seem Near Fighting
P.ipt g.ar Durant, OKLA.
POSSE HUNTING FlENDI) Fl! Nd

pie of Dur Mt District. and the Ne
groes Are Ordered to Leave That
Section at Once.
The murds Of the second white
woman by black fepd in the Dur
ant. Okla, district within three days
has infiamed tfhe white people to such
an extent tn IT the outbreak OF a
long threatel ed race war is immin-
ent. On Tui sday Mrs. Corder, wife
Of a farmer living ten miles south
of Durant, rras Killed after being
brutaNy heaaen by a negro. The
black ran as the woman's husband,
who had been led to a nearby field,
came with posse after him.
After finding the dead body of his
wife, Corder walked five miles to
HalzelI, a village where were his
nearest neigh oors, and told Ills story.
The community is sparsely settled
and excitement runs high in the vii
liages and towns. For more than a
year there has been open epmity evil
dent between the whites and blacks
and it is exp scted that 'the develop
ments Of the asst few days is only the
beginning of ;- fierce war.
Many mincr clashes. between the
whites and negroes, a posse chasing
a negro, at diamond, oklaS, who Is
said ;tc have insulted a white wo-
man, several hundred white men
waiting the arrival of train carry
ing a, negro captured near Durant
comprise the happenings which have
in the last twj days sent that section
to Oklahoma into a seething race
quarSel. At Caddo, Okla, trouble
started as &C on as it was learned
that the negro who attacked Mrs. L.
r. Campbell It Durant Saturday had
been killed md his body burned.
Mrs. Campbell, who had died from
her. injuries, at Sherman. Texas. j.
Identified the body Of the negro be-
fore she was AIKEN to Texas.
The negro S said to have lived in
Caddo, and here the race trouble
predominates numerically. As soon
as his friends heard of the death of
Mrs. Campbell's assailant there was
talk of orga, izing and seeking re-
venge. To fcrestall this the white
men of Caddo formed a posse and
posted signs Warming ell negroes to
leave town lefore Saturday night.
The negroes :arted to leave at once,
but there Is ialk that they expected
aid of negroes of other towns. Since
then al ue 'Uss haze lett TIA: i'larc
but it is also said that blacks from
other town a"e preparing to open a
fight upon the white people of that
section.
Nothing cal be learned as to the
nature of thu crime committed by
the negro VITO attacked the Corder
woman. Word was brought here
that a negro attacked white wo-
man, and thnt a large number OF
men. heavily !rmed, are on his trail
If he is caught it Is probable he will
be lynched.. Atoka, Okla, was the
scene of even greater excitement, Tor
nearly all of the inhabitants are ne
groes. When they heard OF the burn
ing OF the bit ok, who assaulted Mrs.
Campbell, tn, warning and clashes
at Caddo and that posse was after
another neg:o at Diamond, they
were immeG lately organized, ana
when a Missc uri, Kansas and Texas
freight train came through the
town they co, cred the trainmen with
guns and too1 charge.
The condu> tor managed to eluoe
his captors long enough to SEND a
warning to Iurant and Caddo. he
warned the towns that the negroes
we're armed and bent on avenglng
the death of Mrs. Campbelps assall-
ant. Immediately upon receipt Oh
the message IT Durant, as in Caodo,
nearly every nan in town was press
ed into servire and is armed await
ing the arri' al of the avengers
who should Tt ach here within a short
time. Atoka is the county seat OF
Atoka County. and about thirty miles
northwest of Durant. Caddo is be-
tween Duran. and the train which
is carrying he negroes. and it IS
there they Will be met by the first
armed posse.
Telegrams were received at Dur
ant supposedly bearing the signature
of the conductor of the freight train
which it was said had been captured
by armed blacks, and hundreds OF
armed men net the train at Caddo.
70 learn that there were no negroes
aboard the tr in. Five hundred men
armed themselves in Durant and pre-
nared to NEE. the train when it ar
rived there. Before its arrival, how
ever. they le; rned that the informa-
tion was false, and while. there was
great exciten ent, no trouble result
ed from the riild rumors.