Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1909 — BATTLESHIP KILLS NEGRESS [ARTICLE]

BATTLESHIP KILLS NEGRESS

Frightened to Death by Searchlight of the Mississippi. - Foroche, La., May 21. Adeline Hawkins, a negroes of this place, was literally frightened th death by the powerful searchlight of the battleship Mississippi on its way up the river to Natchez. ‘lt is the judgment light,** she amclaimed. and then tell dead.