Show BRUTAL SLAVERY TENNESSEE IN Negroes Held Prisoners and Compelled to W Work rk Without Without Without With With- out Pay GUARDED BY ARMED M MEN N 1 DItO cr of So on Dead cUll Bodies Bodh's In lii- the lime LT I I eads to Indictments II by Grand Jury llIe KnoxvIlle Tenn Sept 21 TIme The The In Indictment In- In b by the federal grand Jury of oC contractors and foremen of or railroad construction work ork now In Jim progress In Inthe Inthe the time mountain fA fastnesses of eastern Tennessee Io have led lell it is said Id to Unearthing unearthing un un- I of oC conditions of tho the most brutal of human beings ever discovered In this section of oC tho the count coun coun- t try tro ry According to stories told to the time grand jury jOlT by fit fifty or more mol negroes now and amid closely guarded a as witnesses witnesses wit wit- nes nesses es and on whose testimony the In Indictments In- In were returned In camp No G 5 on the time railroad extension HiO men were held as prisoners antI and compelled to labor practically without wa wages This camp c Is IR thirty miles from Marysville Marys- Marys yule ville accessible only over o tho the roughest mountain road and lying in iii a n natural pocket between the Lime Great reat Smoky mountains and the lie turbulent Little Lillie Tennessee Tennesse river ri Armed guards s are said to have watched the laborers night an and day dRY A few well armed armell men could have ha held the lie gang bang prisoners an nn indefinite time being stationed at the time ends of the narrow ravine where the lie work was being done Killed rr frying III to Escape Negroes are said to have ha been 1 killed In imi attempting to escape their ho bodies les lying Iring where they fell foil Whether sick or 01 well the time negroes were forced to labor being clubbed clubbe with pick handles hand baud los hex In case of refusal Pay time the they re received received re- re practically not nol at all the testimony nony mony before the grand land jury having ha bee been l that lint all their earnings s were eaten up by exorbitant prices at pt tho lie company commissary One year 18 ol old negro wild said he lie had worked three months and at the end of that time ha had been Jn indebted to his employers cn Seven Italics Bodies Found A government Interested In Inthe Inthe the time Investigation and amid prosecution says that seven bo bodies les of negroes had been hoen found In li-i tho the Little Lillie Tennessee river ri and amid this had led Jed to the time Inquiry resultIng resultIng resulting result result- ing In the discovery ery of oC the horrible conditions existing According to this hh officer In iii other oilier mountain railroad camps hundreds of men and scores s of women are held In practical bondage United States marshals armed with rifles arc are now searching for at least leasta a half dozen contractors foremen and bosses bosses' connected with the railroad work on which the time deplorable conditions condi condi- lions ions are arc said to have prevailed pre The ItC witnesses es will be hold held until the In Indicted In- In be brought to parties parties' parties can n cr-n e trial S |