The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-10-02
TEN KILLED IN RACE RIOT
WHITES AND BLACKS CLASH AT
HARRISTON, MISS.

Reign Of Terror Started by Drug
Crazed Mulatto Boys, Both of
Whom were Lynched.
Harriston, Miss, Sept. 2S.-Two
drug-crazed mulatto boys, brothers,
began a reign of murder here this
morning that ended only after three
white men, three negro men and ne
gro woman had been shot to death,
several wounded and the two boys
lynched. A serious clash between the
races was prevented by the arrival, on
a special train, of a company of Ma
tional Guardsmen from Natchez.
The trouble started at about 2
O. clock Sunday morning and contin-
ued intermittently until 10 o'clock
today. when Walter Jones, the elder
of the two boys, who started the fir-
ing, was lynched just after the SOL
diers arrived His brother, Will, had
been shot by citizens earlier in the
day. Soon afterwards persons who
had barricaded themselves in their
, homes began to emerge cautiously
! from their hiding places, and by noon
the town was quiet No more trouble
is feared.
Dead and Wounded.
The dead: Sheriff G. B. Hammett,
of Jefferson county, shot as he was
leading a posse to where the negroes
were hiding; former Constable Frank
Keinstly, shot at his home after being
called to a door; Claude Freeman,
white, of Fayette, shot at railway
station while waiting for train;
Johanna Aiken, Tom Weeks, Jesse
Thompson and Thead Grayson, ne
groes, killed during promiscuous
shooting; Walter and Will Jones, ne
groes lynched.
Wounded: Orrin Gillis, former
sheriff, shot in shoulder and may die;
E. B. Appleby, conductor of the va
ZOO and Mississippi Valley Railroad,
shot in breast, leg and arm, danger
Gus; William AIcCaleb, shot in leg
and thigh; William Keinstly, son of
Frank. shot in hand; William Dennis,
shot in leg; w. c. Bond, shot in leg.
After it was assumed the death list
was nine the body of Teller Warren,
a negro, was found in a hut in the
negro quarter where Walter Jones
first began firing. Evidently Warren
was one of the first victims but just
when he was shot is not known.
Twenty persons were injured, six
teen of them being negroes. None of
the negroes were dangerously hurt.
Beginning of Riot.
The shooting was started by Wal
ter Jones in the negro quarter, where
the negro woman and Thead Grayson
were shot and killed. Walter then
went to the home of his mother and
aroused his brother, boy Is years
old. Together they went through the
main street of the little town firing
at every one in sight. Citizens arous-
ed from their slumber by the shots
peered out of the windows and then
hastened to cover.
The two boys, soon after leaving
their home, went to the home of for
mer Constable Frank Kienstly, who,
when he replied to their call, was
shot through the head by Walter
Jones. Death was instantaneous.
Keinstly's son, William, grabbed for
a gun when he saw his father fall.
Before he could fire he received
bullet in one of his hands.
Fired into Train
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
depot is near the Keinstly home and
the two negroes walked in that direc-
tion. A train had arrived from Nat
chez just a few moments before and
E. B. Appleby, the conductor, was
standing at the station talking to w.
c. Bond, the fagman. Without warn
ing the two negroes fired on them
and both fell. The boys then direct
ed their fire at Claude Freeman, who
was waiting for a train to take him
to his home at Fayette, Miss. He
was killed. The negroes turned to
the train, firing into the cars. Pas
sengers became panic-stricken. A
sleeping car from Natchez, left stand
ing at the station until the through
train from Memphis to New Orleans
arrived, was a target for the fire. of
the negroes.
Many windows were broken but no
one in the car was hurt.