Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-03
FIVE WHITES, Is
 NEGROES SLAIN;
 SITUATION IN HAND
Confirmed from page onel

-~~~~~~~~--~--4 caDcd injury naea three bullets whiz-
 zed over She automobile in which
 they were accompanying 2 detach-
 ment of soldiers beating the cane
 brake near Elaine for hiding negroes. They abandoned the car and followed
 the troops afoot.
 While the killing of ". D. Adkins Tuesday night and the Wounding of two other men deputized to inVezti- gate alleged disorderiy conduct on the part of q white man in the Elaine neighborhood, precipitated the out break, propaganda circulated byj white and Gego agitators tending D create rebelliOus action on the part of negro tenant farmers is said 70 have formed the basis for the disor- der. which had been brewing for two i weeks or more. I Governor Trough and the chap lain were on road near Elaine when they flushed" four negroes. The negroes fired at them and then run. Neither was struck. 1 4 few minutes later q posse headed by Nr. Lilly caught another band of negroes. They started to take the four negroes, all brothers, to Helena. 1 They had gone but q short distance when one jerked q revolver out of Mr. Lilly's pocket and shot the Helena real estate man through the body three times. Others in the posse turned their guns on the brothers and killed them all Mr. Lilly then was rushed to Helena for medical attention, but died. | Corporal Luther while working in the round uD of the negroes in the woods here jumped upon fallen log A negro lying beside the log sprang up, fired shotgun at the soldier and tore off his jaw IL has been established since ves- terdaY that none of the men killed and wounded were victims of acci- dent as was believed. Clinton Lee was shot in the back by some person at q distance, the bullet coming from q high power rifle. The missile pene- trated the rear of the automobile in | which Lee and other young men were seated before striking him and was removed from his body last night | Tanpan was shot from trench" while crossing q field in company with two other men from Helena 1 Proctor, was also shot by high 1 power rifle by some person concealed | in the woods.
 The funeral ararneements for the l dead bows and w A. Adkins. the | latter being shot from ambush at | Hoon Spur on Tuesday night have | not been announced.
 0. s. Bratton Held.
 The number of negroes dead and i wounded from yesterdays fighting | has not been ascertained, but accord i inc to one member of the posse from Helena. who came in from the scene of the fiphting. "there are plenty of 1 them" It is stated on authority of ! Herbert Thompson late captain in the l world war, the negro who shot young | Tappan was killed within a few minu- 1 tcs after he fired the fatal shot A ! brass slug was taken from wound | in Tapnan's face vesterdav afternoon. | ndicatinp the kind of bullets used by | the neoro forces in the fighting.
 Q. s. Bratton, white, held on a l charge of murder in connection with l the killing of Special Officer Adkins Tuesday night, is said by the author ities to have been one of the instipa- tors of the trouble at Elaine and Hoop l Sour. Rratton was brought here in chains last ni~ht. He is said to be a | son of U. s. Bratton, attorney of Lit tie Rock, and former postmaster of that city and also to be a member of | the law firm of Casey and Rratton. with offices in Helena. Feeling against him is bitter. but there have | so far been no indications of sum mary action. Bratton and 19 negroes some of them women, arrested in connection with the race war, are held | under strong guard in the county jail | and it is understood thev will be tried at the next term of the Phillips circuit court, which convenes two weeks hence.
 Fired on Train.
 special train bearing women and | children from Elaine and other points in the trouble zone arrived in Helena last night, and were given accommo- datons by the people here One train bearing refugees concealed in steel gondola was fired upon by negroes who climbed trees beside the tracks where it runs through dense cane brakes. None of the refugees were hit
 Parties of armed men who came to Helena from Clarendon, Marianna, Marvell and other points near Helena on the Arkansas side of the river and other parties from Lula, Tunica, Friars Point and Clarksdale, Missis- sippi aided in patrollng the streets in Helena last night and assisted in preserving order in the trouble zone.
 Helena was closed tight last night even the drug stores being closed. and women and children kept within doors. From three to five armed citizens patrolled each block in the downtown and residential sections of the city. and small army waited at the Phillips county courthouse to respond to emer~ency calls, Rifles and shot guns with amnle supplies of ammuni- tion were received from Memphis and other cities. and the courthouse