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Show RACE WAR IN TEXAS; NINE NEGROES LYNCHED Tragedy Follows the Mur-fer of Tve White Men, Which Wis Laid to Members of Black Hies. Jloiiaton. Texas SiiiiiIiv night nine I cgroea met death at the hands of a 1:10b In the vlrlnlty of Hemphill, In Pnlilne county, nnd as a, remilt a terrible ter-rible race war Is feared, every man In that section having secuivd arms, and on nttnek Is expected at any moment. 'I he lynching followed the killing of two white men by negrooa. Two weeks ago Hugh Ili-aii nnd sovernl o'leT white men visited the tii-em church and school house where a dance was In progress. prcsumnM)- In ipiest of liquor. It being the ctMoin of some of the negroes to sell wltiakcy during the 1 rotrreas of such nff;ilra. Muring the evenlni; Dean was killed nnd six negroes were held for the l lllng. At tin1 preliminary cxanilua-t-en the evidence temp-d to ahow that ti-e niot was formed nt the dance lo I, III I), in. Saturd iv it, Aaron M. Johnson, a imminent fiirnior win lo-HanHlnated vhlle riaied at n dining table with his wife nnd child, the hnllot being II roil throiiKh a window. For this crime Perry Price, n to ;m, was ar-futoil. ar-futoil. nnd. It l riaicd. lonf.aaed. Im-I'ili Im-I'ili ailng Hohort W'rli-ln. n relative of one of the negroes h Id for Dean's murder. Price nvc'sivil he was of-t. of-t. rod .", to kill Johnxon Then followed the forming of a p ull, I he overtwiworlnT of the JulbT at lioiuiihlll 1110I the lynching of six lie-krnm lie-krnm hold for the murder of Dean, l ive were tranced tn the annie tree, vhlle another attempted to eacap and was shot lo denih. I. liter In the 11I11I11 William Mi-t'ov. iinoilier negro, was tlmt Mini killed while siiinillng at the rate of the .lohnaoii home, mid next morning the bodies of two more ne-croes ne-croes were found In the creek bottom. |
