Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Violence Towards Newcomers
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In June of 1906, three young black men were run over
by a train near Welch while apparently sleeping on the
track. The June 29, 2906, Chetopa Advance reported
that “it is said that these three boys were in… Welch.
At this place a fellow represented himself a marshal,
held the boys up and took what money they had.” The
paper also reported that there was some speculation
as to whether the men were actually sleeping on the
track or if they were murdered and their bodies placed
on the track to cover it up. The paper noted that “there
was no blood along the track where the boys were run
over.”
A later article from the Vinita Chieftain, reprinted in
the Advance July 6, 1906, reported “it is a well known
fact that no negroes are allowed in Welch, and a
witness was found who stated that some of these
young men who admitted having talked with the three
boys had but a short time before stoned two negroes
out of town….the only explanation for a murder, if
murder it was, is that, in the effort to drive the boys
out of town, they resisted and one of them was killed.
The others might have been killed to hide the crime.”