5 Injured in Norlina in 'Race Riot' Jan. 25, 1921

Raleigh, Jan. 23—Three white men and two negroes are reported to have been wounded, several of them believed fatally injured, in a race riot at Norlina in Warren county, 15 miles northwest of Henderson. The wounded men are reported to have been taken to Henderson hospitals.

The wounded men are W.G. Upchurch, white, railroad engineer; A.J. Rainey, white, railroad inspector; Raby Trailor, white; and Leroy Trailer, white; Henry Jones, negro; Jerome Hunter, negro.

Raby Trailor, most seriously wounded of the white men, is in Henderson hospital with the other wounded whites, while Jerome Hunter is in a negro hospital at Raleigh and Henry Jones is in a Henderson hospital.

The rioting followed bad feeling which had been growing between two groups of the ?? for about a week, according to Chief of Police S.P. Fleming, “having its start in a quarrel between a brother of the two Trailors, who were wounded, and a negro by the name of Bullock, over a trade involving some apples.”

(From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Jan. 25, 1921)