Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — WITHOUT WARNING. [ARTICLE]

WITHOUT WARNING.

Six Colored Men Shot to Death and Ten "Wounded in Teneessee, Attacked in an Isotated Tan Bark Camp by Men Who Had Been Discharged for Inoompetency and Slaughtered. It Is reported from Rockwood, seventysix miles from Chattanooga, on the Cincinnati Southern road, that twenty-five miles from that place, last Sunday, a party of native mountaineers rode Into a tan bark camp situated in the Cumberland mountains, and without warning shot and killed six negroes and wounded ten. The mountaineers, it is said, had been discharged for incompetency and took this method of revenge. Two of the wounded negroes reached Rockwood and, took the train for Chattanooga, where they live. The trainmen report them having boarded the train, but they cannot be found in the city. The party who spoke to them states that they asserted the shooting party numbered twenty or thirty, and used rifles.