NEGRO OUTRAGES.
Tho racial troubles of Oklahoma axo reported as becoming worso, and qui'to half the militia of tho State have been called out to copo with tho situation and liold back the negroes, who are thoroughly infuriated, and who hare already committed excesses that demand, the most severe punishment. Telegrams from Oklahoma City state that soveral white families on farms in the neighbourhood. of Coweta, where tho trouble first arose, wero killed by the negroes in fiendish manner.
Several farms have been burned, and in two instances it is stated that the heads of families wore hanged in their own premises by tho negroes, tho bodies afterwards being riddled by bullets. In (Joweta itself tho attack has been held by tho presence of the militia forces sent there from Muskogee, but thero was eonsidcrablo skirmishing recently on tho outskirts of the town between the white riflemen and the negroes, who are in a force estimated at "1<5()0. Four whites were fatally wounded and it i« thought that many of tho negroes woro killed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10346, 29 December 1911, Page 2
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