Show SHOT OUT THE LIGHTS NEGRO CHURCHES RAIDED BY WHITE IEX Negroes Are Aearly Frightened to death and A re Leanins Their Homes as last as Possible Whites Claim the Xejcrocs Have Outraged White Women LIVE OAK Fla July 22Rev D W Gillislee reports a reign of terror among the negroes of Lafayette and Taylor counties He says their churches are being raided by white men congregations dispersed and pastors pas-tors driven away Rev Gillislee is presiding elder of Live Oak district of the Florida conference of the A M E church The counties mentioned are in this district and he recently returned re-turned from an attempt to fulfill his appointments According to his story I he was roughly treated He says he I was preaching in Lafayette county to a large qongregation when a crowd of armed white men came into the church and stationed themselves near the pulpit I The leaders asked Gillislee How long do you except to remain in this county and live 1 Then the whites began to shoot and Giislee and the congregation ran out I In a panic Gillislee went to Bram I ford ten miles distant ip Suanee county He made the trip in an hour I He next went to Taylor county which adjoins Lafayette on the west but was again driven out While preaching preach-ing at night he says that about i twenty white men came in and station i sta-tion d themselves around the milpit I I Gillislee was greatly frightened but i kept on preaching Finally the mob shot Qut the lights Gilislee and the I negroes ran out many being tramped upon The mobs so far appear to i have shot no one their object seeming i to be to create terror Gilsle says the negroes are frightened fright-ened nearly to death and are leaving I I rapidly many deserting their property j I I I The preacher seems unnerved by his I experience and will never pro to Lafayette i I La-fayette or Taylor again His headquarters I head-quarters are in Jacksonville and hp has a good reputation Lafayette and Taylor are the counties where so many negroes have been lynched for outraging out-raging white women In Lafayette there have been over a dozen lynch ings in the last few months and there is no question that reported assaults on women have greatly embittered the whites against the negroes I |