Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-12-11 | Page 6 | Burn and Shoot Negroes in Race War in Alabama

AND SHOOT I NEGROES IN N RACE I IWAR wJ WAR N. N MEMPHIS IE Tenn Dec 11 A A specia cial cia to the Scimitar News from Columbus Colum bus Miss says 25 5 or 30 ne negroes rocs arc are dead lead five fi wh whites whiles tes and man many negroes aro are wounded an and five o ne negro ro lo lodge go rooms have havo been burned in a t fi fierce race raco war which is in pro progress in Pickens Pickens Pick Pick- ens county Ala Owing to tho the discovery of a plot by negroes to rise n against the whites of the country county every ery black is in dan danger er This plot was carried on by bv means of a se secret secret se- se e cret society which had lo lodge o rooms in remote districts of Pickens county Fifteen negroes uc were ero burned to death eath eathin in a 1 lodge room near Reform Ala Aa last ni night ht when whites attacked tho the place and fin finding ing a number of or repeating rifles and shot shotguns uns fired the building The blacks were penned in b by tho the continual continual con con- shooting oi of of tho the whites and those i iwho iwho who were not killed in in attempting n to i escape were roasted alive i iNear Near Gor Gordo o three negroes were wore shot ahot to death when Wh en a posse of white men attacked attacked at at- tacked a lod lodge e room So fir far as has been learned the tho burning of tho the other 1 I lodge od e rooms was without fatalities