Eureka Reporter | 1903-06-12 | Page 3 | War on Negroes

WAR ON NEGROES five killed and many flogged in smith county M ss four negro men and one negro woman were I 1 billed e or ten badly beaten and most of the other negroes in the community ordered to leave as the result of the shooting from am bush of mr craft and the wounding of mr boys by negroes last week this occurred in the northern part of smith county miss and excitement there last week was intense reports from there now are that everything is quiet and perhaps will remain so if the negroes ordered to leave will do so at once it Is said that the killing and flogging of the negroes was as done by men from the part of tho the country where craft lived