Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-10-10
10 MEN KILLED.; IS
INJURED IN A RIOT
THREE WHITE MEN AND SEVEN
NEGROES WERE SLAIN.
Two Negroes Run Amuck@Call Constable
Kinstley From His House to His
Death-SheTiff Hammett q
Victim.

TRANSFORMATIONS white men ana seven
negroes we're killed and IL others wound
ed, some OF them fatally, during \ riot
that was started here shortly after mid
Friday night, and which continued
until . o'clock Saturday morning.
The dead:
GROVES HAMMETr, sheriff OF JetIer
son county.
FRANK KlNSTLEN, constable OF
Narriston.
CLAUDE FREEMAN, white.
JOE WEEKS, negro.
JESSE THOMPSON. negro.
FAlETTE GREIS0N, negro,
JOHANNA AIkENS, negro.
seller WARREN, negro,
WILLIE JONES, negro.
WALTER JONES, negro.
The wounded:
Edward b. Applcby, conductor on the
lazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad,
shot above the heart, in the arm and
thigh; probably fatally.
0. $. ellis, clerk Of the circuit court
of jefferson county, shot in the arm and
abdomen; probably fatally.
Thad Ross, white, shot in side; con-
dition serious.
William Bonds, white, ilagman on the
Y. j NJ. v. railroad, shot in the leg
and arm.
Pernell Lee, white, railroad yardman,
shot in arm.
Reynolds kiustley, white, railroad
clerk, shot in arm,
Homer Altkens, negro.
AL Athens, negro.
John Virgins, negro.
Jerry Haywood, negro.
John Nash, negro.
Bob Patterson, negro.
FoNT OIHclS WnOSt Hhhl'h hlt Nv
known.
The trouble was started by two ne
groes, Willie Jones and Walter Jones
Filled with drink and cocaine, they raj
amuck, shooting at every person tina
came in sight. Officers and citizens G
the town, attracted by the noise OF fire
arms, went in the direction of the shoot
ing, and were met by a iusillade O
bullets.
The lighting then became general, wit
the officers and citizens On one side an
the two negroes and their sympathizel
on the other. This threw the town int
the widest excitement, and a reign ,
terror existed for over seven hours. q
der was not finally restored until I'll
two negro desperadoes were lynched an
two of their accomplices, Bob Patterso
and johnson Prophet, were lodged saiel
in Jail.
Quiet reigns in the town, the citizer
apparently being satiated in their deslI
or vengeance by the sight OF two ghastl
bodies dangling from a telephone POI
at the coal chute, near the depot.
The state militia, which was rnslc
to the scene from Natchcz on an earl
morning train, has been recalled. Glool
has settled over the town.
A special term of the circuit court wi
be convened at Fayctte to try Bob Pa
terson and johnson Prophet, the allegc
accomplices of the Jones brothers, Il
. murder.
A threatened race riot has been averte
and the people appear content to perm
the law to take its course.
Groves Hammett, the sheriff, who fe
a victim to Walter Jones deadly pun
gun, was 35 years old and single. j
was regarded as one OF the most popul'
young men of the country.
Frank Kinstley was an older man an
has a large family. He had been co
stable of Harriston for four years ar
formerly was a country merchant.
Claude Freeman, the other dead VIII
man, was 30 years old and single.
Gov. Brewer arrived here at 8 o'clot
. Saturday night on the fast train fro
! New Orleans, and was met at the dep
: by a delegation of citizens. The go
g, ernor was informed that the trouble ",
:, started by two cocaine-crazed negro'
and that at no time did the affair a
: sumo the proportions of a race conill'