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Show KILLED NINE NEGROES FIGHT BETWEEN A POSSE AND A COLORED BAND. An Attain pt to Arrenta Sro U-Brtakr 1a Mlaalinlppl Bnulu in a Pltch.d liattle Mure Tronbl. Expect .d. Forest, Miss., Oct. 24. As the result of an attempt to arrest a negro neat Harpersville in the eastern part of the state, one white deputy was killed, three wounded, and according to tht latest report, nine negroes have been killed by the citizens of the Harpersville Harpers-ville neighborhood and the sheriff's posse combined. The pursuit of about fifty negroes, who had joined the original offender with the avowed determination to prevent pre-vent his arrest and capture, and which ambushed the party attempting the arrest, continue, and the number of fatalities will undoubtedly have assumed assum-ed large proportions before the trouble is over. The whole country is terribly arroused and the sheriff's posse has been reinforced with men from all the poighboring towns. Gov. McLaurin has gone to the scene, which is about ten miles north of Forest, the nearest railroad point. The trouble originated last Friday, when a negro named Burke had an altercation with his employer, Charles Freeman, a white man, in which the negro got the best of the difficulty. The next night a crowd of white men, headed by Wallace Sibley, who was deputized to arrest the man, went to Burke's house, which is about a mile from Harpersville. When they arrived upon the scene and called for Burke they were greeted by a fusilade from the negroes concealed con-cealed in ambush in the bushes, surrounding sur-rounding the house and in the house itself. Wallace Sibley the leader, fell dead at the first volley aud three more white members of the crowd, James Johnson, James Hamilton and James Wells, were wounded. The whites returned re-turned the fire but were unable to do any execution, as their assailants were all concealed. There were not more than eight men in the white crowd, and finding it impossible to resist effectively, effec-tively, they dispersed toward Harpers-ville. Harpers-ville. It was not known at that time that Sibley was injured, but upon a return ' to the scene in the morning he was found dead in the yard. The wounded deputies were able to get back to town with the assistance of their comrades. When the crowd returned to Harpers-ville Harpers-ville the news spread like wildfire. During the night a large crowd gathered gath-ered from the neighborhood. They immediately went to Burke's house and got from his mother the names of all parties in the crowd which had ambushed am-bushed the men the night before. In all there were about forty negroes who had gathered to prevent the arrest of Burke, and a list was made up at her dictation. The sheriff, accompanied by about 300 citizens, has started after the negroes, and so far nine have been captured and killed. |