About 4:00 P.M., Wednesday, October 1, 1919: Lonnie And Other White Men Stalk Through The Cotton Rows, The Killing Fields, North Of Elaine. Fear lingers everywhere, like blown dust, Unsettled and invasive. Few rise above the Crops’ horizon: no blacks at all,...
Early Afternoon, Wednesday, October 1, 1919: Lonnie And Other White Men Walk The Streets Of Elaine Before Heading North Into The Cotton Rows Of More Killing Fields. Speculation runs dry as a blanch bone, For death had come here, to this place, With no advance...
Late Morning, Wednesday, October 1, 1919: Milligan Giles, Barely Conscious, Lies In The Mud, Shot Through The Chin Along Govan Slough By Henry Smiddy Of The Missouri Pacific Railroad – A Bullet Left Lodged In Milligan’s Neck. At fifteen, what do I know or what...
Morning, Wednesday, October 1, 1919: The Cotton Fields And Sharecropper Homes Off Of Highway 44, Near Hoop Spur Church, Become The First Major Killing Field Of The Massacre. Traveling south on foot leading cars to follow – Beyond daybreak, still morning, dew...
Early Morning, Wednesday, October 1, 1919: Lonnie and Other White Men From McGehee Board A Missouri Pacific Railroad Train Bound For Elaine And The Killing Fields To Quell “The Black Insurrection.” We have our rifles, pistols, and bullets, But do we have enough...
