The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-02
MANY SHOT DOWN
BY TWO NEGROES;
BOTH ARE KILLED
Brothers Begin Shooting Col
cred People and Then
Start on a Wild
Raid.

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ton, the scene OF yesterdays riot,
which cost the lives OF three white
men and seven negroes n the wound
ing OF a score Of other persons when
two drug-crazed negro boys, Walter
and VIII Jones, ran amuck. was quiet
today.
The bodies Of the JoEes brothers.
who We're lynched. were cut from a
coal chute late last night and buried
today.
Harriston. Miss, Sept. 29,-Two drug
crazed mulattO boys, brothers, began o
reign Of terror here yesterday morning
that ended only after three white men,
three negros and a negro woman had
been killed, 20 persons wounded and
the two boys lynched. Sixteen of the
injured r negroes. "A serious clash
Between the race was prevented by
the arrival on o special train Of a
company OF the national guard from
The trouble started, at about 3 o'clock
Sunday morning and continued inter-
mitently until 10 o'clock this morning,
when Walter Jones, the older Of the
two boys who started the firing, was
.lyncbed Just after the soldiers arrived.
His brother. VIII Jones, had been shot
and iynched by citizens earlier In the
day. No more trouble Is feared.
Shot Up Town.
E&N Wy WIN DJ w tlG
Jones, aged 20. In the negro quarter,
where the negro oma and Thead
Grayson were shot and killed. Walter
then Went home. aroused his 1S-year-
old brother and together they proceed
ed through the main street of the little
town, firing at everyone In sight.
The two boys went to the home OF
former Constable Frank Keinstly and
Walter Jones killed him when he re-
sponded to their call 10 come out.
Keinstly's 0 William saw his father
fall and reached for q gun, but before
he could fire he received a bullet In one
hand.
The Yazoo Mississippi Valley depot
Is near the Keinstly home, and the two
negroes walked In that direction. Al
train had arrived fromsiSatchez Just a
few minutes before and Conductor Il.
B. Appleby was standing ct the sta
ton talking to Flagman w. G.. Bond.
Without warning the two negroes fired
on them and both fell. Then the ne
freeman, who wac waiting for d train.
He was Instantly killed. The negroes
then fired into the train, terrorizing
the passengers.
Pullman a Target.
"a sleeping car from Natchez is left
every night at Harrison until the
through train from Memphis to- New
Orleans arrives. After the train from
Natchez had departed this car was a
target for the fire OF the two negroes.
While many windows were broken no.
occupant of the car was hurt.
The two negroes then made their way
10 a cotton seed house near by. 1t is
believed they then realized that a pos
sc soon would be formed and deter
mined TO make their last stand ut the
house. Freightened citizens by
lhiGZ fir0AEH had IarhAna far. Cl,1rfPP
Hanlplett at Fayette. Hammett arriy-
ed on horseback about five O'Clock. A.
small crowd OF men were firing into
the seed house, but no one had ventur-
ed to charge the position. Taking a
few men with him Sheriff Hammett,
heavily armed, started toward the seed
house, whereupon Walter Jones went
to the tall grass nearby and as Ham
nett approached fired, killing him In
stantly. Al shot from the seed house
brought down ellis. BY this time the
countryside had been aroused and the
farmers came pouring In from every di-
rection. A general fusillade Of shots
was directed at the seed house.
A call was sent to Gov. Brewer for
troops, Finding his hiding place too
~precartous, Will Jones started to run
towards a coal shute nearby. but had,
gone only z few steps when a bullet
ended his life. Al rope was placed
around the body. It vas strung up to a
telegraph pole near the station and be-
came O target for everyone not shoot
Ing at the seed house. Soon after Will
Jones was killed Walter Jones picked
Tom Weeks, a negro, off the coal chute
with deadly aim.
Both Die.
A special train bearing the hatcher
guardsmen arrived soon afterwards.
While the soldiers were retraining the
crowd rushed tho seed house. Not a
shot greeted them and as the leaders
entered they found Walter Jones COM
pletely unnerYed, but uniniured. They
quickly placed a rope around his neck
ana rushed him to the coal shute. AS
the negro wass drawn UP the
broke and he fell heavily to the ground.
A largo rope was placed around his
neck n again ne was pulled up. A
large crowd looked on as the body
writhcd ltnul life was extinct.
The crowd then went to the home of
the Jones negroes. where they found
two negro men. whom they were about
to lynch, when Officers persuaded them
TO desist.
Later today the body OF Teller war
rem. a negro, was found In a hut in the
negro quarter where Walter Jones first
began firing. Evidently Warren was
n of the first victims, but Just when
he was shot Is not known.
Twenty persons We're injured. sixteen
of them negroes, None of the negroes
dangerously hurt. n
The Natchez guardsmen returned
home. The negro population appeared
to be as much incensed at the Jones
brothers as We're the whites.
Tho bodies OF tile Jones brothers had
not be0n cut down ttonfQbf 81 EH.@ .