Show RACE WAR IN TEXAS WHOLE STATE AROUSED CONFLICT BETWEEN NEGROES AND WHITES IN BLACK BELT war Is result of white farmers Fan ners attempt to collect a debt from a negro conservatively estimated that fifty five lives were lost palestine texas in a race war between whites white whiteland whitesand sand and negroes at slocum and elkhart on saturday at beasts least fifty blacks were killed hilled and wounded and scores ot of white men are either dead or suffering from froin bullet wounds A conservative estimate of the dead Is fifty five the war between the rie negroes groes and whites followed a race riot late friday da afternoon in slocum when john wilson a white barnier fari far rier nier attempted to collect a debt from edgar henry a colored 3 man troops were rushed here from houston and jacksonville and a body of texas rangers have arrived prepared for a bloody nattie dattie all of texas Is aroused not nol since the days when mexican marauders swept across the border or when the texas rangers bangers fought pitched battles with bad men has feeling and excitement cit ement run so BO high the exact number of killed Is hard to determine because many bodies have been ie removed moved A number ot of unidentified negroes were found dead in the und underbrush the negroes are in a frenzy of excitement and it Is feared that the death list may run to over before the uprising Is quelled palestine is in the midst of the texas black belt abb city Is now un der martial law |