Clay County AlArchives News.....Wedding shoot-out at Railroad Camp June 28, 1907
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Lineville Headlight June 28, 1907
A fight occurred at Noll Construction Co's railroad camp near Lineville last 
Sunday among the negroes and when the smoke and cleared away there was one dead 
negros and another fatally wounded who afterwards died. Both negroes were killed 
by leaden balls fired from a pistol in the hands of a negro man who resented the 
idea of another negro man taking his railroad camp wife without first having 
been divorced. The method of marriage practiced in the railroad camps is rather 
peculiar. The contractor brings in a number of negro women and says to the negro 
men: Bill, this one is your wife, Tom, that one is yours. And the ceremony is 
completed. It appears that the aim of the negro who did the killing was not very 
accurate. The first negro killed happened to be standing nearby and the ball 
struck him and killed him instead of the negro shot at; but the next shot 
brought down the negro first fired upon. These murders among the Negroes in the 
railroad camps quite numerous.

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