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Show WOiMAN STARTS RACE RIOT. SERIOUS THOUBLE BREAKS OUT IN AN ALABAMA TOWN. Neurit Wiilnnn l'linhril A V 1 1 1 1 Mn 1'rmn llnllrimil Trmiln nml Ntnrtril n I'ri-o fur hII llfllt llrlwrrll WlilC.n mill IttHrkN One white man Is missing and supposed sup-posed to be dead, another Is fatally wounded and two negroes aro seriously shot as a result of a race riot at Littleton, Little-ton, a small mining town twenty-three miles from lllrmliigham, Alabama. Supposed dead: Ira Cruel, while. Thu Injured: .loo Thompson, white, shot through bowels, serious; Juhn llaur, negro, shot in heel and Ihlrfh, serious; William Tolbcrt, negro, who shot Thompson, shot In chest, serious. The troublo was precipitated by a negro woman, who pushed Joe Thompson, Thomp-son, a white man, from a railroad trestle. The woman was accompanied by William Tolbcrt, a negro, who fired on tho white man after he had fallen. Thompson, who was not seriously hurt, went for assistance, and, accompanied accom-panied by Ira Creel and John House, began a search for the negroes. Other negroes had joined Tolburt by this time, and from Improvised breastworks they fired upon tlio white men. Thompson Thomp-son fell at the first shot and his companions com-panions bought cover. A fusillade followed, and only ceased when both ltdes had exhausted their ammunition. I'bo whltu cltlensof Llttloton becurao ilarmcd for fear of furthnr trouble, as the negroes were largely In the maturity, ma-turity, and called on Sherllf Jlurglu for assistance. Tlif negroes arc said to havo stolen inverat hundred pounds of powder from onu of the magazines at thu mines, and thcro is fear that they will itteinpt to blow up somu of the buildings, build-ings, Littleton Is closely guarded. |