Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-09-29
MISSISSIPPI TOWN
QUIET AFTER
EVENTFUL
SUNDAY
Drug Crazed Negroes Run
Amuck and Are Lynched Af-
ter Three White Men and
Five Blacks Are Slain.
MILITIA RESTORES
ORDER AT HARRIsT0N
[Rr Ieaaed WIre lo EvenIng HeraId.

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fBy Iieased Wirs 20 Evening Herald.
Iiarrlston. Miss. Sept 29.--Iiarris-
ton. the scene OF yesterdays riot
which cost the lives OF three white
men and seven negroes and the
wounding Of score 0f other per
sons when two drug-craxed negro
boys, Walter ana win Jones. ran
amuck. was quiet today.
The bodies of the Jones brothers.
who were lynched. were cut from a.
coal chute la:e last might and buried
today.
The brothers began the reign of
murder yesterday morning and Il
ended only after three white men.
six negro men and negro woman
had been killed. several persons
wounded and the two boys lynched.
A serious clash between the races was
prevented by the arrival on special
train of company Of national
guardsmen from Natchez
The trouble started at about
o'clock sunday morning and con-
tlnued intermlttently until 10 o'clock
this morning when Walter Jones, the
older OF the two boys who started
the firing. was lynched Just after the
soldiers arrived. His brother, Wih
Jones, had been shot and lynched by
citizens earlier In the day No more
trouble is feared.
The dead.
Sheriff O. B Hammett Of Jeffer-
son county. white.
Former Constable Frank l<einstly,
white.
Claude Freeman. white. OF Fayette.
Miss.
Joahnnn Aiken. Tom Weeks. Jesse
Thompson Thead Grayson. all ne
groes killed during promiscuous
shooting.
Walter Jones. WIN Jones. both ne
groes lynched.
Wounded:
Orrin Gns former sheriff white.
may die.
/ =. V. Applcby. white. conductor Of
a Yazoo a Mississippi Valley railroad
train. dangerously wounded.
william McCalcb. white.
William Keinstly white. son of
Frank keinstly
W. @. Bond. white
William Dennis. white.
The shooting was started by Wal
ter Jones. aged 90. In the negro
quarter. where the negro woman and
Thead Grays0n were shot and killed.
Walter then went home and
aroused his tS-year-old brother. and
together they proceeded through the
main street Of the little town, firing
at everyone IN sight
The two hoys went to the home Of
former Constable Frank Keinstly and
Walter Jones killed him when he re-
spondcd to their call To cone out.
Keinstly's son William saw his father
fall ana reached for Run, but be-
fore ne could fire he received a bull
let in one hand.
The Yaaoo a Mississippi valley
depot is near the l<einstly home and
the two negroes walked In that di-
rection. 4 train had arrived from
Natchez a few moments before and
Conductor T.. n. Appleby was stand
ing at the station talking To Flagman
w. G.. Bond. without warning tho
two negroes fired on them ana both
fell Then the negroes directed thei,
fire at claude Freeman. who war
~ killed. The negroes then fired
into the train, terrOrizing the pas
sengers.
A sleeping car from NntcheZ IN left
every night az HarristOn until tn,
through train from Memphis TO New
Orleans arrives. After the train
from Natchez had departed this cat
was "A target for the fire OF the tive
negroes. While many windows were
broken no occupant of the ear WA
hurt
The two negroes then made theii
way to cotton seed house nearby
Il is believed that they then realized
q posse would soon be formed an,
they determined to make their las
stand NJ the cotton seed house
Frightened citizens had telephone,
for Sheriff Hammett at Fayetteville
Hammett arrived on horseback abou
q O'Clock 4 small crowd OF mel
were firing into the seed house bu
NO one had ventured 20 charge tbs
position. Taking few men will
him, sheriff Hammctt heavily arm
ed. started towards the seed house
whereupon Walter Jones went 90 TINS
tail grass nearby ana as Hammet
approached the negro fired, killinl
him instantly. 4 shot from the sce'
house brought down Gillis.
Iiy this time the countryside ha'
been aroused and farmers cam'
pouring in from every direction,
general fusillade of shots was direct
ed az ,ho seed house. 4 call was sen
to Governor Brewer for troops.
Finding his hiding place too pre-
carious. VIII Jones started TO run 10
} wards coal chute nearby. bat ha'
gone only few steps when "A bulle
ended his life, A ROBE was place.
: around the body, u was strung up q
, telegraph pole near the station an
, became target for every one mo-
, shooting al the seed house.
Soon after VIII Jones was killed