Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — PERISH IN RACE RIOTS. [ARTICLE]

PERISH IN RACE RIOTS.

Whites and Blacks Fight Fiercely in Mississippi. In a race riot which began with the fatal wounding of a conductor by a negro on a Mobile and Ohio railway train at Crawford, Miss., and ended with an outbreak at Scooba, Miss., .at least fifteen persons were killed and perhaps a score wounded. Following the, shooting at Crawford an outbreak occurred at Wahalak in which five negroes were killed. Shortly after the departure of the troops sent to quell the disturbance rioting broke out afresh at Scooba, five miles south of Wahalak, and five negroes are reported to have been killed. Of the Scooba clash reports are conflicting, some reports placing the number of killed and wounded at a score. Troops were immediately ordered to the scene. Conductor R. N. Harrison of the Mobile and Ohio was the man shot and fatally wounded by a negro at Crawford, Miss. The negro, in turn, was shot by Harrison and before he could escape was killed by a posse. Three companions who were with the negro fled to the woods. One of these was later captured and shot to death. Tuesday night a negro became involved in an altercation with two white men aboard a train near Artesia, Miss., and when the station was reached was taken from the train and killed. In a dispatch to Gov. Vardaman Sheriff Trout of Kemper county described the situation as critical.