Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "Negro Stampede," November 11, 1857

   NEGRO STAMPEDE––Last Sunday night, a family of negroes belonging to George W. Fairfax of Preston county, Va., father and mother and five children, took three horses belonging to their master, and made their escape into Pennsylvania. They were pursued on the next day, and overtaken about two miles from Uniontown, when the negroes made desperate resistance, fighting with knives, hatchets, &c., but were finally captured and confined in jail in Morgantown. In the engagement, a man residing in Smithfield, Pa., was wounded.