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Show FATAL RACE IT 1 SOUTHJIOLII Two Negroes Killed, Third Believed to Be Dying; Six White Men Hurt. I By International Iews Service. SENECA S C Dec 26 Two negroes ne-groes are dead, a third is believed to be dying and half a dozen white men were wounded by bullets as a result of a race r ot at Fairplay a email viTage twelve miles from here An hour after the rioting started whites and negroes came across the line from Georgia to take part in the fight Trouble between the races has been brewing for days and came to a head when a white man said to be Wood row Campbell and George G bson, a young negro quarreled over Gibson s attentions to a mulatto woman Is e-groes e-groes sided with Gibson and last night the fnends of Campbejl formed a mo!b and took Tom Spr ght a negro across the Savannah river into Georgia and gai e him a terrible beat ng G bson and his father Green Gibson arr vod on the bridge in a buggy and demanded that the bridge be cleared of the mob so that they m ght pas3 Walking to the buggy one of tha men) I said to young Gibson i ou' are the one we want. Gibson was pulled from the buggy He res sted and escapedv The esiape onjy infuriated the mob more. He was chased &nd after a time caught. Then he was beaten to death Spr ght unconscious and near death was hur r ed to a nearby town It is reported that another negro was killed but th s has not been verified. Following tho lull ngs and beatings the negroes foimed in large numbers and attacked the wh tes The wh te men injured are Magistrate W C Mc Clure shot in the faco Paul Mairott shot in tho back condit on senous TVoodrow Campbell shot in the chest and stabbed Logan Ban oy shot m the eye, and seve al others who were not badly hu t Several of tl o wh tes were shot bv the elder G Uon vho prote ted him self beh nd tho b dge Then he ran and was brought down with a bullet n his back His gun was broken to pieces and used to beat him -to death |