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EIGHT DEAD AT OKMULGEE.Th« Trouble Started Over a StreetFight Between Negro and Indian.J.Okmulgee, Okla.—Eight persons were killed and ten others wounded Sunday afternoon in a fight between Jim Deckard, a negro desperado, and law officers. The dead: ~EDGAR ROBINSQN, 'sheriff of Okmulgee county.HENRY KLABER, assistant chief police of Okmulgee.Two ; negroes named Chapman (brothers).JIM DECKARD, negro.The wonded:Steve Grayson, Indian boy, fatally beaten.Vic Farr, chief of police, shot through shoulder.Deputy sheriff, name not learned, arm broken.Seven others slightly wonded.The disturbance began at the St. I/)uls and San Francisco railroad station, where Jim Deckard engaged in a fight with an Iddian boy, Steve Grayson, and beat him into insensibility with a rock.Friends of Grayson notified the police, and when Policeman Klaber went to the station Deckard fled to his house nearby, barricaded himself in, and when Klaber approached Deckard shot and Instantly killed him. Sheriff Robinson gathered a posse in a few minutes and hurried to the scene. Part of this posse was made up of a group of negroes whom, the sheriff commissioned as* deputies. As the posse approached the house Deckard opened fire with a rifle, firing as rapidly as he could, then reloading his weapon. The sheriff fell first, instantly killed. Then the two Chapman brothers, negroes, were siuln. Deckard’s house was soon surrounded by a frenzied mob of armed men. Fire’was ‘set to a house just north of Deckard's. Volleys were poured into Deckard's house and he was shot down. He was seen to roll over on the floor, strike a match and set fire to his own house, which was soon a roaring furnace in which his body was baked. Deckard evidently had a large quantity of ammunition stored in his house for many cartridges exploded while the house wasburning.
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Checotah Enquirer
Checotah, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Nov 20, 1908
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