Richmond planet., 1923-01-13
Armed Warfare as Whites
Attack Community Fol-
lowing Escape of a.
Suspect. II
"DYING, BUT FIGHTING."
Numerous Instances of
HerOiSm.
ROSEWOOD, FLORIDA, Jan. s

ROSEWOOD, FLORIDA, Jan. S.
Reports from authentic sources say
that when the whites began to as
sauit and kill colored women indis-
crimihately, several cOlored men bar
ricaded themselves in a house and
fought off the mob OF white hoodlums
and while the whites were waiting
for re-inforcements these men, some
eX-soldiers, charged for the protec-
tion of nearby woods. Most of the
colored casualties were sustained by
"non-combatant' women who were
chased and beaten wherever found.
The whites sustained THE greatest
number of casualties, r.
Rosewood, Fla, Jan. 6.--James Car.
rier, colored, shot and killed this
morning, was the seventh victim of a.
race riot which began here on Thurs
day night Carrier was shot to death!
while standing on the graves at Sum-
ner of the four other colored people
who fell in the fighting that followed
an attempt by crowd of white mem
to enter a colored home in search oh
Jesse Hunter. escaped convict wanted
for alleged implication in an attack on
white girl at Summer.
According to information receiver
by officials, Carrier was seized by sew
eral white men this morning and ac
cused of having been in the house
from which colored persons fired OILS
the approaching white men, killing
two of their number. When he is said
TO have refused TO reveal the names OF
those who did the shooting, the white,
men, officers were informed led him to
the colored graveyard and made him.
stand on the newly dug graves of mis-
brother and mother, also victims Of
the fighting, while they riddled nlr
body with shots.
Meanwhile Hunter, search for whore.
has resulted in the seven deaths, i5
still at large. Officers stated tonight
that the situation in the entire vicini-
ty was quiet and they anticipated no
further trouble.
Carrier had returned to Rose wool
this morning and appealed to w. r..
Plilsbury, superintendent of the Sum-
ner Cypress Company mill there, for
protection Pillsbury locked him in q.
house in the colOred quarter. Later.
however. when new clash became in
minent, he was turned over to twenty
five or thirty men.
Rosewood, Fla, Jan. 5.-Armed nos.
ses numbering between 200 and 800,
We're searching tonight for Jesse Hunt.
er, escaped colored convict, who in
addition to an alleged attack on ~
white girl, has been the incidental ,,
cause of the killing of two white men
and four colored people and the wound
NJ hi %
deaths and wounding resulted from Il
race riot fomented here last night by
search of the colored quarters for tho
| wanted man.
Following the clash between the rae
es the colored section was set on frs
and nearly destroyed. six houses and
colored church being burned. All the
people fled from Rosewood and are be.
lieved to be hiding In the woods fos
protection.
q. r. Wilkinson. merchant Of
Sumner, and Henry Andrews, super.
intendent Of the Gunner Lumber COro
pany, at Otter Creek were killed when
they advanced on a colored home last
night to see Sylvester Carrier, colored
who was believed to know the where
abouts OF Hunter. Their companions
onen rained bullets on the house, the
fire was returned. The number Of per
sons In the house was estimated ~
twenty-five.
Before dawn the white mems ammp-
milton was exhausted and the people
escaped before the supply could be re.
plenished. A search of the house re
vealed that Sylvester Carrier and his
mother Sarah Carrier had been shot
to death. Lesty Gordon, colored wo
man was shot to death as she was leav
ing her burning dwelling it was re-
ported. This afternoon the body of Min
go Williams, colored was found on q
road about twenty miles from Rose.
wood. He had been shot through tho
jaw.
The white men wounded we're: Ceci!
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