Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-10-03
10 DEAD, IS INJURED,
AS RESULT OF A RIOT.
Two Negroes Who Start
Trouble Are LynChed.
colored Man Who Had Been Drinking
Heavily and Lost Large Sum
of Money in Crap Game
Starts on Warpath.

dead and thirteen lie wounded two
probably fatally, as the result OF
riot which terrorized the citizens Of
Harriston for eight hours Sunday
morning, threw passengers of train
into panic, caused Gov. Earl Brewer
to rush company Of militia from
Natchez and ended only when the two
negroes who started the trouble over
losses at crap game had been
lynched in the presence of the militia.
Dead and Wounded.
The dead are: Grover B. Hammett,
sheriff of Jefferson county; Frank
Kinsley, constable of Harriston;
Claude Freeman, white; Joe Weeks,
Jesse Thompson, Fayette Greyson,
Johann Aikens, Teller Warren, Will
Jones, Walter Jones.
The wounded: Edward B. Appleby,
conductor Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
railroad, shot above heart, in arm and
thigh, probably fatally.
o. S. Gillis, clerk of the circuit
court of Jefferson county, probably
fatally.
Thad Ross, shot in side; condition
serious.
William Bonds, train fiagman.
Pernell Lee and Reynolds Kinsley
and the following five negroes: Homer
Aitkens, John Virgins, Jerry Hay
wood, John Nash, Bob Patterson and
L. S. Hill Pullman porter.
The row which eliminated in a riot
began at little negro cabin on the
south edge of the town shortly after
l a. m. Will Jones with other negroes
had been engaged in crap game
since early Saturday night. Jones had
been drinking heavily and was quar-
relsome over losses. Going over to
the railroad track, which passes in
front of the house, he suddenly took
up a shotgun. There was a flash and
Teller Warren, a negro, fell dead.
Attracted by the report, Aitkens,
negro woman, came to her door. She
staggered back with a bullet in her
arm. AT the same time her child
sitting up in bed, was hit in the arm
by another shot. Negroes scattered
in wild confusion. Will Jones disap-
peared into the darkness, going up the
railroad track toward town. A block
away he came to an old store where a
number of white men were playing
poker behind closed doors. The negro
deliberately fired into the room.
Buckshot scattered in all directions,
but all the players escaped harm.
went outside to learn what had hap
pened. He was shot dead.
Shoots Several Negroes.
The path of the murderer led to the
depot. En- route he met several
negroes. Their bodies also were
found beside the railroad tracks at
dawn. The early morning train of the
Yazoo G Mississippi Valley railroad
from Memphis reached the station at
1870 o'clock. Conductor Appely walked
into the telegraph Office to receive his
| orders. AS he emerged from the door
way flash of shotgun appeared
| from behind the cars and Appley fell
fatally wounded. Will Bonds, the
| flagman on the train, went in search
of the assailant and he was likewise
greeted with gun flash. A slight
wound in the arm was the extent of
his injuries. Pernell Lee, employed in
the railroad yard as pump tender,
also received wound in the arm.
| While the town was being awakened
by the repeated shooting, Frank Kins-
ley, constable, was called to his door
and shot down. Reynolds Kinsley, his
son, who ran to his fathers aid, was
wounded in the arm. BY 3 o'clock the
shooting had assumed the proportions
of battle. But the negroes were
crafty and deftly evaded all pursuers.
Sheriff Hammett drove from Fayette
to Harriston, accompanied by Tom
Hommett, his aged father, and dep.
uty sheriff and o. s. Gillis, clerk OF
the circuit court.
BY the lights at the depot Will
Jones and his brother Walter, who had
joined him, were seen to hurry to
their home, 900 feet away. The two
Hammetts and Gillis, with pistols
drawn, approached the house and
called upon the negroes to surrender
Finally Thad Grayson, an aged
negro, under promise OF $40 note
approached the Jones house and par
layed for a surrender. This move
was successful. Will Jones, johnson
Prophet and Bob Patterson came out
with hands upraised.
Walter Jones was shot while trying
to escape. Preparations for lynch
ing were we'll under way when the
militia from Natchez arrived ON o
special train. The soldiers were told
firmly to stand aside, and the com
mand lined up while Will Jones was
hanged to telegraph pole and Walter
Jones was strung up to the coal shute
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