Show aff 0 ACE g WHOLE STATE AROUSED ovea CONFLICT BETWEEN becwar N NEGROES AND WHITES IN BLACK BELT war Is 1 result of white farmers Fan ners at tempt to collect a debt from a negro conservatively estimated that fifty five lives were lost ra palestine lestine texas in a race war between whites and negroes at slocum and elkhart on saturday at least fifty blacks blacka were killed find wounded and scores of white men are either cither dead or suffering buttering from bullet rounds A conservative estimate of the dead la Is fifty III e the war ur between the he negroes and whites followed a raco race riot lato late ari day afternoon in slocum when A lien john filgon a white farmer attempted to collict a debt from edgar henry a colored man troops were rushed here from houston and jacksonville and a body of texas rangers have hane ar rived ried prepared for it a bloody bame all of texas Is aroused not rince the days when mexican marauders swept across the border or when the texas rangers fought pitched batles balales with nith bad men has feeling and excitement cit ement run so BO high the exact num of killed Is hard to determine be cause many bodies have been removed A number of unidentified negroes were round found dead in the q h the negroes are in it a fieney of 0 excite ment and it t Is feared that the death list may run to over before the uprising Is quelled palestine Is in the midst of the texas texada black belt tile the city Is now under martial law |