Show Near IeRIr1e I Taccaloota 5The town of Epes in Sumter County Ala was almost totally i destroyed by fire list night In the afternoon A crowd of drunken negroes became very boisterous in the streets in suIting citizens and threatening violence White men banded together and drove the turbulent crowd out of town After nightfall the negroes returned and set fire to the place Seven stores were burned Four of the negroes boarded a train over the Alabama and Great Southern Railroad Rail-road and were arrested when the train arrived here this morning They are now in iail and will be taken to Epes tomorrow I to-morrow |