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LY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1910.1 TEXAS NEWS OF ' evening train for San Benito. Thedead men are all of prominentLOCAL INTERESTOrder is Fast Being Restored _| At Riot Scene.! Palestine, Texas, AugnSt 1......Or-Rangcrs Led Into Trap; ;der is fast being restored in theTwo Killed, Two Wounded. I v*c‘nit.'' of Sloeiun ard in all An' i San Benito. Texas July 31 __As‘dCRi0n ®nnt3r*.,,“d no further out-JSi* result of a ruse worked bv532! - General Newton, who is acting in500! K'a“’ erld68^ will‘ tl,c “'oa'conjunction with tlm local auth-4-2the company of rangers'orities. distributed the Austin stationed here, two State Rangers|troop of cavalry over the district.and one Mexican were killed and:affected by the trouble and this | two other rangers wore badly j section, ten miles in area, is beingj wounded this morning about l-JSGjthoroughly patrolled.| o’clock, about eleven miles from j here, near the Eio Grande.] The dead are :| Special Deputy Sheriff Henry : Lawrence. .j Lieutenant Ranger George Car-James Spurges, Isom Garnett, Walter Ferguson and John Bishop were arrested and warrants are out for the arrest of others. Officials here unite in the declaration that the action of the whites wasjnes- wholly unjustified, and many in! Pablo Trevino, a Mexican. j noeent negroes were killed'andThe wounded are: (forced to flee because of the mis-Raiiger Pn't Craighead, wounded ! deeds of a few being visited upontedall alikeA determination .exists here of bringing those responsible for the trouble, regardless of color, to justice. Some of the .dead negroes were mere youths. t is claimed tiie whites were never in danger, and the blaeks fled from the secne almost from the inception of tile I rouble.Judge Gardner is arranging fur a special grand jury.At least eight, and it may he more, negroes, all of them probably unarmed, were hunted down and killed by a mob numbering perhaps 200 or 300 men in the Slocum and Denson Springs neighboring t. his K I will Titnoon. a sir not j takei: at on or. hi goinfEverShiThueysTieworkThLo mv I Itu from S. Tiad, lameche: freqi see re jf mil til I Pills, abov built possi withe50 C' falo, Unit(in bothle_,. . Lari West, a constable, visiting ! Craighead, badly shot.ITiblo Trevino, a cousin of Jacinto Trevino, who is said to have killed Jim Darwin about two miuulis ago, informed several persons here that Jacinto would crass the river hist night with several more cousins with the intention of killing one of the officers here, who had mode threats to catch him af-. ter the Darwin killing. Pablo of-. ! fttetl to bring iiis cousins past a '^1 certain spot in the brush and to to lttg ,je!lind ass!st the Ameri-r; cans to capture the men..jaI A posse of ten men went to the. c....._______jj spot, designated by Pablo and seat- Roods of this counly last Friday• tfWd into four parties. Ranger and yesterday, according to theijh'Lieut. George Carnes, Special Do- opinion of Sheriff William Black P'.'ty Henry Lawrence and a com-rt^PK'Ssed today. The sheriff re-. j pony of San Benito men had just.turned early this morning after a^er: stationed themselves at a cross- j twenty-four hour absence in that Bit, ^ i road when they heard men ap-1 district, where racial irouhle has' pat [lv proaciiing. file rangers, wtio were,been at-ore, and described in some (the sitting in the middle of the road. I details the conditions which he;be . called on the men, who seemed to found to exist there. He told of'for he four or five in number, to halt. ;1 fivuve man huiit in tin- woodsjsia itv K M,:xicans H'tunied sonic kind riddled bodies found on lonely |cot w °f an answer and immediately roads ami the spread of terror al- Do ive opel,ei1 Hre, killing one ranger in- most iiidescrihahle among the in-(me stantiy and mortally wounding habitants of a very large area in ivo die im,£ber. The other American, nf- the southeastern part of Anderson' bet ter emptying his gun. ran for a is- County. Sheriff Black is sure*o,r| sistance. that his estimate iff the dead is(trlt;andtheReturning the men of the posse conservative, lie said he had a'stnml W(re lending over their wounded careful investigation made and at :comrades, not knowing tier in the after telling of its results added: 1. .. first fire. Pablo, who was with the H think the most of that crowd]irc1 Mexicans, had been wounded in of men came, from Houston Coun-' gc^ 1 the leg. tie had crawled to the kv- and. according to what I was,in s'-* ,,p liu* road, behind a stump, told, the shooting xvas still going!^ and from there fired his winches- on Tate yesterday evening. They..^ ter into the group over the pros- were just limiting the negroes j (^ irate forms. His fire badly down like sheep. \Ve found:l)(i . wwnifteji two more rangers, who two in the read that hod been shot j.c, . finally killed him. about 10 o’clock night before last. j; The first fire of the Mexicans 'ft was evident that at the timejWSs partly with' buckshot and it they were killed they were trying1^,; had a telling effect. , to get out of the country, for they j| Two of the Mexicans have been had their bundles of clothes with ! j’ , ; iraiied (o the Mexican side, hut them, if reports that I had given |^ j the other member of the gang, who to me are to be credited. there j. ; is thought to he wounded and in , must he 15 or 20 dead, all of them! ----i . : r -the brush, has not been found.(negroes. It is going to be diffi-Et'forts have already been made'cult to find out just how many I to take the trail on the other side.\ were killed, because they got them ' ■ant! it is hoped the remainder of (scattered all over the woods, Thor the gang will be taken. wib lie some of them that won't.At- the time of the murder of,he found until the buzzards find ! Darwin a reward of $750 was put, them.” on -Jacinto Trevino’s head.Refuses to Confirm HisVictims Live in Floresvilie. I Appointment.Floresville, Texas. July 31.— Austin. Texas. August 1. By This little town was thrown into a vote of twenty-two to seven the excitement this morning when a, senate refused to confirm the name telegram was received here from of W. E. Hawkins for eommission-San Benito saying that Qnirl Car-tor of insurance and banking, tones, who was.in the ranger service: day. thereby carrying out the Pat Craighead, another ranger. , wishes of Governor Campbell. This: and Earl AYest. all Floresville' was done in executive session, hoys, had been shot in an affray ( When Hawkins was informed of with Mexicans. Carnes soon died, the result, he said: I have noth-A large crowd left here on the ing to say just now.” Then, turn-
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