Word: homochitto
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National Guardsmen removed people by boat and helicopter, sometimes through attics. In Mississippi, corpses were washed out of cemeteries; in Louisiana, residents had to contend with snakes and swarms of fire ants flushed from their nests. Angry waters severed oil pipelines across the Homochitto River near Meadville, Miss., unleashing an estimated 30,000 bbl. of crude oil into the river. Officials in Louisiana, shoulder to shoulder with 140 inmates of state prisons pressed into service, filled sandbags...
Martha Clarke, a retired schoolteacher in the mythical town of Homochitto, Miss., still lives in the family homestead. But now, in her mid-70s, she is almost blind and beginning to turn senile. Picking their way past a Spanish oak tree and a small jungle of cane and Virginia creeper, Martha's nephews and nieces stage a meeting of the clan in the ancestral manse. While she sits in her period rocker, they discuss their Aunt Martha problem as if she were as inanimate as the leather classics in the glass bookcases about them. "Isn't it strange...
...Negroes prudently stayed away from the stores. At Meadville, Hamburg and White Apple, at Knoxville and Little Springs and Bogue Chitto, something more was in the air than a January breeze. Hard-eyed white men got out their guns, went hunting in the swamps along the Homochitto River. Mistuh P. A. Cooper and his bloodhounds arrived from Brandon. Major T. B. Birdsong brought a troop of National Guardsmen. A hunt was on for two black bucks who supposedly had killed a white constable. A cold, scared Negro whose feet were cased in gunnysacks showed himself to a posse, got peppered...
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