| Show mississippi IN ARMS NEGROES inlet ENGAGE IN belly CONFLICT the slack takes to the hills he iu pursuit Pur suir MERIDIAN miss dec 18 at number of telegrams were received here yesterday morning stating that a riot had occurred at wahalak semper county fifty miles north of meridian and that holy of this place was killed two parties aggregating sixty men were dispatched to the scene they returned last night re porting everything quieted down they give the following account of tho disturbance thursday a son of G F nicholson Nie holson a prominent farmer driving along the road met a negro desperado driving in tho opposite direction young vehicle by accident came in collision with the negros who kept in the middle of the road as if determined to drive tho boy out the negro cursed tha youth when the father of nicholson appeared and interfered the negro draw a revolver closed with nicholson knocked him senseless with the pistol and then fled the following day nicholson told his friends of the begres assault and saturday it was determined to organize a posse and arrest maury information of this reached the negroes ae groes it is said two white men gathered a party of negroes together at the church sunday night and organized a force of ten to resist any attempt to arrest maury these whites are well known people of wahalak but their names cannot be learned it is the settled determination to lynch them when found the negro force went to baurys house and concealed themselves in the smoke honse and cotton houses soon after this the of white men camo up the road and balled in front 0 baurys house four of them walked up to the house and found it deserted then they went to tho smoke house where they found three negroes these men were questioned as to maurs whereabouts but they pretended they could not tell chero he could be found thon 9 manon the outside shouted here comand ari rest him the whites body from the bundling bu idling and as they emerged were met with a volley from eight or ton muskets and shot guns william vaughan was seriously injured by buckshot in the neck and shoulders and another whose name the whites will not reveal received a slight wound in the hand this volley came from the cotton house and was promptly resumed by the whites but the negroes being behind stout plank walls received no injury the chitos discovered they were fighting at a great disadvantage and moved around to the north side of the structure here they received ano hervol resu i ng in the boath of marry maury and the wounding of his brother W J maury near the elbow the whites now drew off and the fighting ceased temporarily notwithstanding choir losses however the posa determined to make another attack on the cot approaching it this time from the south As they came up they received a third volley tho negroes apparently awaiting tho order to as they had done in the two previous instances at this third seth cobb received twenty two bucka hots in the breast and stomach tearing the entire front part of his body away john dew another of the whiles was probably mortally wounded by a pistol ball in the groin the whites again drey off for consultation when it was decided another attack with their reduced force was useless and they de ter mined to wait for daylight and reinforcements while they were consulting the negroes rushed from tho cotton houses to baurys residence in a body and proceeded to fortify that building and the white men went back to wahalak yesterday morning another force of fifty men was raised and proceeded to baurys residence the place was found entirely deserted the whites homed the buildings on the place together with those on the farm adjoining and scoured the woods for the but could find ho trace of them it is impossible to find the within five miles of the scene of tho trouble people from the adjoining towns poured into wahalak all day aad joined in the search but as none 0 the negroes except maury are known they accomplished complis hed nothing one negro was seen lurking in the woods and was fired upon by a party of whites bat ho instantly disappeared it Is believed that there will be more trouble it that if any of the who fired on tha whites are caught they will be kiIl edThe feeling however is mostly against the white men arc said to have organized the negroes not a single negra is known to have received any injury two white men besides those already reported are wounded but their names are not given it does not appear that the whites in attempting to malo the arrest were acting under any legal authority but as they are sustained by the entire white population of kemper and the adjoining counties ik is unlikely any proceeding will be taken against them no change in the situation at Wahalak The village is crowded with the surrounding coultry try parties are searching Uhe swamps where the negroes are d to be secreted up to 10 a in not one has been found it is have left the country parties who left meridian for the scene hava returned overy thing NEW ORLEANS dec 18 pica special accounts do fotr materially change last nights story of the affray cobb and 0 B maury were killed win john V dew and J T moury fatally shot and two or ahrea others slightly wounded A party of seventy live white men have started forthe hills where the no groes are said to be hiding and a serious fight is expected in case of a meeting it is believed however that the negroes have dispersed |
