The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-29
Two Negroes Inaugurate a Mas.
sacre in Mississippi.
Kill Eight Persons and Wound
Twenty Others.
ONE SHOT, THE OTHER HANGED
They Fire at Whites and Ne
grOes Indiscriminately.
Attack a Railroad Train Stand
ing at the Station.

Harriston, Miss, Sept. 29.-Two
drug crazen mu1atto boys, brothers
began a reign of murder here Sunday
morning that ended only after three
white men, FIVE negro men and negro
woman had been killed, several per-
sons wounded and the two boys
lynched. A serious clash between the
races was prevented only by the ar
rival on a special train of company
of National Guards from Natchez-
The trouble started about CLOCK
Sunday morning and continued until
Walter Jones, eldest of the two boys
who started the firing, was lynched
Just after the soldiers arrived. His
brother, Will Jones, had been shot ana
killed by citizens early in the day.
Citizens of the town who had barri-
caded themselves in their homes began
to emerge cautiously at 10 CLOCK
from their hiding places and by noon
the town was quiet. No more trouble
is feared.
Later the body of Teller Warren, a
negro, was found in hut in the negro
quarter where Walter Jones first be-
gan firing Evidently Warren was one
of the first victims.
Twenty persons were injured, 10 or
them negroes; none of the negroes was
dangerously hurt.
There was no indication of further
trouble after Walter Jones was
lVnCned
returned home. The negro population
appeared to be as much incensed at
the Jones brothers as We're the whites.
The negroes expressed no ind1gatlon at
the lynching-
The Dead.
SHERIFF G. NJ. HAMMETT of JEFF
ferson county white, shot while lead
ing a posse to where the Jones broth
ers were hiding.
FRANK kEINSTLEY. former con-
stable, white, shot at his home after
being called to the door.
CLAUDE FREEMAN, white, OF
Fayette Miss, shot at the railway sta
ton while awaiting train.
JOHANNA AIKEN, TOME WEEKS,
ESSE THOMPSON, THEAD GRAY |
son, negroes. killed during promiscu-
Gus shooting.
TELLER WARREN. negro.
WALTER AND WILL JONES, ne
groes, lynched.
Wounded.
Orrin ellis former sheriff, white, |
shot in shoulder and may die.
E B. Appleby, white, conductor of |
the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad, !
shot in breast, leg and arms, danger
Gus.
William Keinstley, white, son of
Frank Keinstley, shot in hand.
William Dennis, white, shot in leg.
William McCaleb, white, shot in left
thigh.
w. c. Bond, white, shot in leg.
Walter Jones Starts 1t.
The shooting was started by Walter
Jones' aged 20, in the negro quarter,
where the negro woman and Thead
Grayson We're shot and killed. Walter
then went to the home of his mother
and aroused his 1S-year-old brother.
Together they proceeded through the
main street of the little town, firing at
everything in sight. Citizens aroused
from their slumber by the shots, peered
out of the windows and then FASTENED
to cover, believing, they said, that riots
Of more serious proportions had broken
put.
The two boys soon after leaving their
nome went to the home of Former Con-
stable Frank Keinstley and when he
to their call to come out he
vas shot through the head by Walter
tones. Keinstley's son, William, saw
his father fall and reached for gun.
)ut before he could fire he received a
)ullet in one of his hands.
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley de-
pot is near the Keinstley home and
he two negroes walked in that direc-
ion. A train had arrived from Natchez
ust a few moments before and the con-
iuctor, E. B. Appleby. was standing
1t the station talking to Flagman w