The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-29
Several Others Wound
ed Before Wholesale
Killing Is Stopped.
TROOPS PREVENT
CLASH OF RACES
Reign of Terror in Small Missis-
siPpi Town Ends in Lynching
of the Two Guilty Negro
Boys-People Barricade
Themselves in Homes
for Several Hours.

Harriston. Miss. September 2S-Two
drus-craxed mulatto boys. brothers. this
morning began reign OF terror
which ended after three whito men,
four negro men and q negro woman
had been killed. several wounded and
the two boys lynched. A serious clash
between races prevented by the
arrival OF company OF National
Guardsmen from Natchez
Tho trouble started about o'clock
Sunday morning and continued inter
mittentiy until o'clock this after
noon. when Walter Jones. the elder os
the two boys. who started the firing.
was lynchcd just after tho soldiers
arrived. His brother. VIII. had been
shot by citizens earlier IN the day
Soon arterward people who had bar
cautiously began to emerge from their
hiding places. and by noon the town
was quiet No moro trouble is feared
Killed and Lynched.
The dead:
sheriff II. q. Hnmmett, of Jefferson
County, shot while leading posnc 10
where the negroes were hiding.
Former Constable Frank kcinstIy.
shot mt his home, after being called
the door.
Claude Freeman, white, of Fayettc,
shot mt RAILWAY station, while nruit-
ing n trnln.
johanna Aiken, Tom Weeks. Jesse
Thompson. Teller Warren md Thcnd
Grnyson, negroes, Killed during prom
IscuOuH shooting.
Walter and VIII Jones, negroes,
i!nchcd.
Wounded:
orrin Giliis. former sheriff, shot In
shoulder. and mny die.
IL Is. Applcby. conductor OF the
lnxoo and mississippi valley Rnil-
.,hot In breast, leg nnu arm,
dangerous.
William McCnleb, shot in leg and
thigh.
William Keinstiy, son of FrnnI, shot
In hand.
william Dennis, shot I'm leg.
W. {. Bond, shot I'm leg.
Several negroes also were wounded.
Fire nt Every One in Sight.
Tho shooting was started in the ne
ero quarter by Walter Jones. aged
twenty when Il negro woman and
Thead Grayson were shot and killed.
walter then went to the home Of his
mother and aroused his brother cigh-
teen years old. Together, they pro-
ccedcd through the main street of the
little town. firing at every one In sight
Citizens aroused by the shots peered
out OF the windows and then hastened
TO cover. believing, they said to-day.
that riots OF more serious proportions
had broken out
Il
former Constable Frank keinStly and
when he replied TO their call. Walter
Jones shot him through the head.
Death was instantaneous. keinstly's
son, William, when he saw his father
fall. reached FOR a gun. but before he
could fire. received bullet In one OF
his hands.
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley de-
pot is near the Keinstly home ana the
two negroes went in that direction. y
t,, lod or,ft. frf, q
few moments before. and Conductor +.
b. Appleby was standing at the sta
tion, talking to Flagman w. {. Bond
Without warning, the two negroes hred
them. and both fell. The negroes
then directed fire on Claude Freeman,
who was waiting Tor a train TO take
him to his home at F'ayette. Miss lie
WAS instantly killed. The negroes then
fired into the train terrortzinS the pas
sengers y sleeping car from NatcheZ
is left every night at Harriston until
the through train from Memphis TO
New Orleans arrives. After the train
from Natchez left, this car stood alone
on the track, and was target for the
fro of the two negroes While many
windows were broken, ono in the
car was hurt
Make Their Lnst Stand.
Tho two negroes then made their
way to n cottonseed house nearby.
1t is believed they then realized that
continue without opposition. and de-
termincd to make their last stand.
Citizens by this time telephoned
Sheriff Iiammett at Fayctte. summon
ing former Sheriff Gillis TO accompany
him, Hammett started for Harrston on
horseback, arriving about o'clock.
small crowd of men were firing into
the seedhouse but no one had ventured
into tho place. Taking few men
with him. Sheriff IIammett started to-
wards the scedhouse Seeing this. II
is believed. Walter Jones hid in the
tall grass nearby. and as Hammett ap-
preached the negro fired. instantly
killing the officer. y shot from the
secdhouse brought down Gillis.,
I;y this time the countryside was
aroused and farmers came from every
direction. Every one began firing at
ernor Brewer for troops.
Finding his hiding place too pre-
carious. VIII Jones started to run to-
wards coal chute nearby, but had
gone only few steps when a bullet
ended his life. \ rope was placed
around the body it was strung up to n
telegraph pole near the station, and
riddled with bullets.
Soon after VIII was killed, his
brother Walter picked off Tom Weeks,
negro who was on the coal chute.
Surviving Negro Hanged.
Not long after Weeks was killed the
special train bearing the NatcheZ
Guardsmen arrived AS they wero de-
training. the crowd rushed the seed
house. Not q shot greeted them, and
the surviving. negro was found COM
pletely unnerved, but not injured. They
quickly placed q rope around his neck
and rushed him to the coal chute. The
rope was too small and broke as the
negro was drawn UP. ITe fell heavily
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