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a fireman was shot and killed by another white man through mistake. (Reference is here made to accompanying affidavits mkd "B")

During the morning of the 2d inst (Wednesday) everything was perfectly quiet, and in the district of the disturbances of the previous day.  A very few negroes were in the streets, and none of them appeared with arms or in any way excited except through fear.  About 10 o clock A.M. a posse of police and citizens again appeared in South Memphis, and commenced an indiscriminate attack upon the negroes, they were shot down without mercy, women suffered alike with the men, and in several instances little children were killed by these miscreants, during this day and night with various intervals of quiet, the Massacre continued. 

The City seemed to be under the control of a lawless mob, during this and the two succeeding days, (3 & 4th).  All crimes immaginable were committed from simple larceny, to rape and murder, -  Several women and children were shot in bed.  One woman (Rachel Johnson) was shot and then thrown into the flames of a burning house & consumed.  Another was forced twice through the flames and finally escaped.  In some instances houses were fired and armed men guarded them to prevent the escape of those inside.- A number of men whose loyalty is undoubted long residents