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TWO WHITES I ATTACK ON i NEGROES' FONTI Battle Grows Out of At-I tack on White GirlilHE WS K11ED| ^ -j liemainder of Score Get Awayj During Night When Ammunition Attackers GoneOTTER CREEK, Fla. Jan. 5.— i Two white men, two negro women j and one negro man are known to b**| dead, and is is believed there are j many other casualties, resulting from ' last night’s pitched battle betwA** j whites and blacks at Rosewood, a ! settlement about twelve miles from ihere.The other negroes, to the number of fifteen or twenty, escaped from a house in which they were barricaded, when the ammunition of the whites gave out. toward morning and the whites retired to await a fresh supply.Before midnight neatly every house, cabin and hut in the settlement had been set on fire, save the one in which the negroes were barricaded. By the light of the flames the shots were directed at the fort and from it came an answering hail of bullets which killed the two whites and wounded others.The trouble arose out of the assault committed by a negro on s young white woman last Monday. For hiding the alleged principal 1b this assault one negro was ljmehad I Tuesday. Ne ws got out last night that two negroes who were connected in some way with the attack on tha girl were in a certain house at Roee-wood and a posse of about fifty wfcita men went to get them. They wera fired upon by the score of negroes who had barricaded themselves in the house and the fighting began.Ammunition Gives OutIn the early firing two whites had been shot dead in the yard at tha cabin. About midnight the attacking party ran out of ammunition and the cordon was relaxed while ammunition was sent for. The negroes, when the firing ceased slipped out of the house and got away. This morning after daylight the whites entered the house and found the bodies of three blacks—two women and a man. There were bloodstains on walls and floor indicating that several other persons had been wounded. The house was riddled with bullets.The “fort” and three other houses only remain standing. The remainder were burned down during the night by the attacking party.Of the twenty families of negroea who resided in the settlement not one we* to be seen in the neighborhood today.
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Bradentown Evening Herald
Bradentown, Florida, US
Fri, Jan 05, 1923
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