 Some black deaths were unaccounted for because their loved ones buried them at night out of fear that whites might attack them, while the loved ones of other blacks transported the bodies of their dead off to the countryside for burial.It was also said that several blacks were burned alive in their homes and that, at one point, blacks had to send out of town for more caskets as they had run out.Early after he was shot, William H. Bowe was erroneously reported as being killed by blacks.