Milford chronicle., 1911-04-07
/ KILLED, 5 HURT
IN RACE RIOT
Hundreds Of Shots Fired in
Flight at Laurel, DEL
LYHGHIaG is PREVENTED
Sheriff Speeds Four Prisoners Away
In Auto, Fearing Attack on 1a'''
Neoroes Started the Trouble.

Negroes Started the lroup'e'
All of the pent-up hatred between
the whites and the colored residents
of Laurel. Del, burst forth In race
riot which was started by the coioreu
faction in which one white man re-
ceived a fatal injury. while five oth-
ers we're shot, and another death IS I
feared. lie
man had died. the whites, fully armed,
marched into the colored sectloh Vi
the town, and a renewal OF the OUT
break was imminent, but the authorl-
ties succeeded in restoring peace.
The dead man is Olen Stoekley'
eighteen years old. He was shot dur
ing the beginning of the attack
George Hudson, fifty years OF age
farmer of Bethel Del, also Is IN tue
hospital suffering from guhshot
wounds, and it is feared that ne VIII
die
The others injured are: John
f THOMPSON. shot in the legs while ne
was shaving a patron in MS paroer
sbou. George Cannon, struck with sew
eral buckshot; James Spicer, shot IN
the ear. and Edgar CULLEN, shot III
the side.
The riot started when crowd Oh
colorad men. made mad by liquor
swooped down on the main street ana
began firing at the spectators ana olH-
ers about the public square. Stockley
was one of the first to fall When the
whites saw this they rushed to arms
and begau battle. Those who did not
engage i'm the fight rushed women and
children to safety and then gave
their hand in the uneven battle TOT
the colored men were armed and the
whites were not at the outset.
The whites, once getting their re,
volvers, rifles and shotsuns, re urned
the fire OF the attackers, who We're
armed with shutguns. and loaded their
nieces with buckshOt. sweeping the
streets That more were not killed Is
unaccountable, for the colored gang
held its place for several minutes ana
fired point blank, it appeared, at !he
whites
Once armed. the whites drove the
attackers from the streets. Al thi'
time the street lights We're shot out
: and from places OF ambush the coloreC
men kept up a desultory fire. but thei
D.. shots invariably went wild, for the!
. could not see to aim.
During the afternoon word came
l. from Salisbury that Stockley had dle'
q, and several white men armed them
r selves and proceeded to the colore'
section. determined to burn it an
s hiring the colored occupants out INT
s the open for a fair fight. When tn
o nosse reached a house where 1t wa
known that colored persons lived the
found Earl Records, a tifteen-year-ol
how holding slim Jim" a colore
y. man. for whom a search has been g
II ing on for two months, at bay with
i, revolver. Records had accosted hiI
and drew his revolver, causing IN
10 nrisoner to hold up his hands unit
r. help arrived. -
- In this raid John Collins, Arthu
10 Cummins and George Williams, CO
Il ored and Albert Hitch, white, were
- rested. Hitch and Collins, who are
:, iail at Georgetown, are charged wit
The death of Stockley. Each denies Il
20 crime aad blames it on the other. I
,e a hearing before Justice Chapman
NJ was testified that the quartet wei
%. the leaders in the attack, and th'
he were committed to jail