Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-29
Two NEGROES
CAUSE RACE
RIOT
CRAzED BY DRUGS, TWO NEGRO
BOYS RUN AMUCK.- THREE WHITES
AND SEVEN NEGROES ARE KILLED
AND A SCORE OF OTHERS
INJURED.
OF
RIOT ARE LYNCHED

flarriston, Miss, Sept, 29.-Hariston
the scene of yesterdays riot which
cost the lives of three white men and
seven negroes and the wounding of a
score of other persons when two drug
crazed negro boys, Walter and Will
( Jones. ran amuck, was quiet today.
The bodies of the Jones brothers.
who were lynched, were cut from
coal chute late last night and buried
! today.
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 Wal
ter then went home, aroused his 49,
year-old brother, and together they
proceeded through the main street of
the little town. firing at every one 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 to come out.
Keinstlys son. William, saw his faith
er fall and reached for a gun but be-
fore he could fire he received bullet
in one hand.
The Yazoo & Mississippi railroad
depot is near the Keinstly home and
the two negroes walked in that dlrec-
ton. A train had arrived from Nat
chez lust a few moments before and
Conductor f. B. Appleby was stand
ing at the station talking to Flagman
w. c. Bond. Without warning the
two negroes fired on them and both
fell Then the negroes directed their
fire at Claude Freeman who was walt
ing for a train terrorizing the passen-
gers.
| A sleeping car from Matches is LETT
every night at Harriston until the
through traip 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 was hurt.
The two negros then made their
/ way to a cotton seed house nearby.
| 1t is believed that they then realized
a posse would soon be formed and
they determined to make their last
stand at the cotton seed house
Frightened citizens had telephoned
for Sheriff Hammett, at Fayetteville.
Hammett arrived on horseback about
> o'clock. A small crowd OF men
were firing into the seed house, but
10 one had ventured to charge the po-
sition Taking few men with hlm'
| Sheriff Hammett, heavily armed,
started toward the seed house,
vhereupon Walter Jones went to the
tell grass nearby and as Hammett ap-
preached. the negro fired, killing him
instantly. A shot from the seed house
brought down Gillis.
BY this time the countryside had
been aroused and farmers came pour
ing in from every direction. general
fusillade of shots was directed at the
seed house. call was sent to Gov
ernor Brewer for troops.
Finding his hiding place too pre-
Garious, Will Jones started to run to.
wards a coal chute nearby but had
gone only few steps when a bullet
erded his life. A rope was placed
al ound the body, it was strung up to
telegraph pole near the station and be-
came a target for everyone not shoot
at the seed house.
Soon after Will Jones was killed.
Walter Jones picked Tom Weeks,
negro, off the coal chute with deadly
aim.
A special train bearing the Natchez
erardsmen arrived soon afterwards.
while the soldiers were detraining,
crowd. the seed house.
/ Not shot greeted them and as the
leaders entered they found Walter
Jones completely unnerved bu un'
Injured. They quickly placed a rope
around his neck and rushed him to
the coal chute. AS the negro was
drawn up the rope broke and he fell
heavily to the ground. A larger rope
was placed around his neck and again
h, was pulled up. A large crowd
looked on as the body writhed until
lite was extinct.
, The crowd then went to the home
of the Jones family, where they found
two negro men whom they were about
to lynch when officers persuaded
them to desist.