The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-29
Negro InAamed by Cocaine and
Angry Over Outcome o.
Crap Game, Precipitates a
Serious Race Riot
Sheriff and Constable Among
Those Slam Two Ringlead-
ers of the Trouble Lynched
Before Militia from Natchez
Can Reach the Scene

HARRISTON. MISS, Sept. 2s--As
the result Of one negros anger over
bad luck at a crap game, the bodies
OF two negroes tonight are swinging
from beams at the railroad station
here: eight other men are dead. and
seventeen are wounded. two OF whom
probably will die.
The dead are: @. II, Hammett,
Z sheriff of Jefferson county; Frank
Kinstley. constable of Harriston; and
Claude Freeman. white. VIII Jones
Walter Jones. Joe Weeks. Jesse
4 Thompson. Feyette Greyson. Johanna
Aitkens and Teller Warren. negroes
or the six white men wounded. T.
3D. Appiehy. Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley railroad conductor. and .. s
ellis. clerk of the Circuit court of
Jefferson county. probably viii die.
ALI Of the eleven wounded negroes
will recover
The Jones brothers. before whose
deadly aim most OF those Killed and
wounded fell were Iynchsd in the
presence of the militia company sent
here from Natchez.
Fires Into Crowd.
Shortly after ] O'Clock this morn
ing VIII Jones. who had been losing
steadily in q crap game with other
negroes al little cabin in the south
and got into an ugly mood Shortly
afterwards. Jones, who had heen
drinking heavily and was an habituai
cocaine fien1, fred into th@ crowd OF
negroes with a shotgun, from the rail
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Teller Warren. a negro. fell dead.
3 Attracted by the shooting Anna
Aitkens. n negress. came to the door
OF her cabin. She was shot in the
arm. aud child in bed In the front
Taom also was wounded in the arm,
Jones ran toward the heart Of the
tnvta Passii an old store building
ssAfsrere q croNd Of white nea were
pit ying poker, he deliberately fired
into the building The wall was
ridalea by buckshot, but all Of those
In the building escaped injury. Claude
Freeman. or Farctte. although M
armed. went outside to investigate.
Kills White Man.
give a man chance" his late
companions heard him cry Then
came another report of the shot gun
In fear Of their liveS. the mea re-
NAMED inside the building until day
light, when they emerged to nnd
Freeman dead He had been shot
through the heart
with The blood lust running high.
Jones dashed toward the railroad
station. Fin route ne met several ne
rroes Their bodies were found at
dawn.
peseengn~ train from Memphis, drew
into Hawiston al lao. and con-
ductnr Applebv went into the station
TO receive his orders, As he came
out. James Aired and Applyhy fell des-
perateiv wounded. Will Bond. flag
man on the train, ran toward the
scene and was 2hot in the arm. {. ;,
NaR9 ts,4r q
stuck his head out Of the door. and
received a shot in the face and h@nd.
Parneil Lee, an employe Of the rail-
road In the yards. was seen by Jones,
ana likewise was shot In the arm.
Passengers on the train were
thrown into q panic. and many feared
hoId-up.
Townspeopie Aroused
Yv this time the townspeople were
being aroused .hy the scores
Constable Frank K!nstley was
aroused by a strange voice calling
him He dressed hurriedly and went
TO the donr. only To receive fatai
wound IN the abdomen. REYNOLDS
Kinstiey. his SON jumped from he'd
10 ind his father dead. As he rush
"a to the door, he was fred upon,
one buckshot entering his arm. who
shot the Kinstleys Is not known.
Armed men appeared I'm every door
way then Sheriff Hammett, at Fay
cite, two miles away. had been teie-
phoned and soon arrived in Harris
ton. with him We're his aged father:
= DEPUTY. and Q. ;, Ciills, clerk OF
the Circuit court.
nv This time Il was seen that VIII
Jones had been Joined by his brother,
Walter, and the two negroes ran to
their home near the station.
The two Hammetts and Cults. with
drawn revolvers. approached the
Jones home. AS they did 80. Walter
Jones. who had merely run through
the house opened fire from beneath
cotton oil mill, two h,udred feet from
his home. Sheriff Hammett fell dead.
and ellis desperately wounded. The
elder Hammett crawled away on his
] hands and knees.
Relief mt Hand.
Att o'clock two special trains were
made up at Natchez and rushed 10
Harriston to bear the wounded to
hospital. Men boarded the train at
every station and everyone was arm
Cd. Fully half hundred men from \
towns nearby were in Harriston by 7
O'Clock and the scene around the de- (
bot. bristIing with shotguns. and re-
volvers. which resembled border |
town in the early days.
For several hours, the house where /
the negroes had taken shelter had been I
surrounded. The runarose and the
besiegers set about their work with /
grim determination. From behind the /
cover OF the depot. men rushed to /
large rock pile on one side of the rail- I
road track. Using this pile as a ram
part fully a hundred men began pour
Inn volley after volley into the front
pf the house. another crowd crept \
AROUND to one side Of the house, and |
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