wife and thirteen-year-old son, and took them, together with a babe at the
breast, to a small frame house near the depot and put them under guard.
The subsequent proceedings were briefly told by Mr. Carlee in the columns
of the _Arkansas Democrat_ above mentioned, from whose account the
following excerpt is taken:

It was rumored here that the Negroes were to be lynched that night, but
I do not think it was generally credited, as it was not believed that
Ford was greatly hurt and the Negro was held to be fatally injured and
crazy at that. But that night, about 8 o'clock, a party of perhaps
twelve or fifteen men, a number of whom were known to the guards, came
to the house and told the Negro guards they would take care of the
prisoners now, and for them to leave; as they did not obey at once they
were persuaded to leave with words that did not admit of delay.

The woman began to cry and said, "You intend to kill us to get our
money." They told her to hush (she was heavy with child and had a child
at her breast) as they intended to give her a nice present. The guards
heard no more, but hastened to a Negro church near by and urged the
preacher to go up and stop the mob. A few minutes after, the shooting
began, perhaps about forty shots being fired. The white men then left
rapidly and the Negroes went to the house. Hamp Biscoe and his wife were
killed, the baby had a slight wound across the upper lip; the boy was
still alive and lived until after midnight, talking rationally and
telling who did the shooting.

He said when they came in and shot his father, he attempted to run out
of doors and a young man shot him in the bowels and that he fell. He saw
another man shoot his mother and a taller young man, whom he did not
know, shoot his father. After they had killed them, the young man who