Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1911 — BLAST IN NEGRO TOWN [ARTICLE]

BLAST IN NEGRO TOWN

Two Children Perish When Home Is Razed by' Pynamite. Muskogee, Okla., March 24. —The home of Zeb Mackey, a negro of Taft, Okla., near here, was blown up with dynamite, white Mackey and his family were asleep. Mackey’s two children, aged ten an,d fourteen years, were killed. The house was burned. Taft is exclusively a negro town of about 1,000 inhabitants. The reason for the attack on Mackey is a mystery.