Fatally Stabbed by Negroes

Ironton, Ohio July 5-At Fleetwood Park yesterday, John and Albert Slaughter, white were probably fatally stabbed by Luther Page and Abner Owens, colored and Charles Martin and Riley Slaughter were beaten with clubs. The mother of the Slaughters was knocked down with a club by Owens. The trouble occurred over the slapping of a small white boy by a colored man and it almost caused a race riot. The colored men were placed in the county jail for safety. A crowd gathered but no one volunteered to lead an assault on the jail, which is heavily guarded. Public sentiment is at high tension and trouble may yet result.

Page and Owens were secretly arraigned before Mayor Mountain in the jail this afternoon and it was arranged that they be taken to Portsmouth jail for safety.

Desert Evening News ( Utah ) July 5, 1901