American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-05-23

some IN other parts OF the city were burn
ed. No effort was made to stay the
flames. In one case four negroes were
fastened up in house and the house SCI
on fire.
A colored man on Alabama street, in
forms us that his house was broken into
and about two hundred dollars in money
taken, and he beaten over the head and
the same party broke into his neighbor's
house, killed him, locked the wife and
children in the house, set it on fire and
burned it down.
A colored woman named Rhoda Jacobs
while lying in bed with her child at her
home in South Memphis, was shot in the
breast
John Mason (colored) was shot in the
head while in his house in the same
neighborhood. His'money was then de
manded of his wife She replied that
they had none. The house was then
searched and everything ofany value ta-
ken. Indeed, robbing seems to have
been as mucn the object of the rioters as
negro killing. One negro was asked if he
had any arms, and on his answering that
he had not, pistol was placed at his
head and his money demanded. Twen-
ty-eight dollars was taken out of trunk
broken into in the house OF Becky Pleas.
ant, in South Memphis
We heard the particulars of the rob,
bing of from ten to twelve negroes, from
the parties themselves. The sums taken
ran from the most trifing up to three
hundred dollars. One said he was or
dered by policeman on the corner of
Bcal and DeSoto streets to give up his
money and his weapons.
A colored man, living in the northern
portion of the town, says they entered his
house on pretense of searching for.arms,
and killed his mother, an old colored wo-
man, in her bed.
Two or three negroes were shot in
Chelsea
Six or seven houses occupied by ne.
groes were burn ed on Echols street.
A building, now private property, but
formerly belonging to the Government,
was burned on Gayoso, east of DeSoto
street
The grocery at 81 Causey street, be,
longing to a colored man, was entered
and robbed of half of its contents.
Bob Church, colored, was shot In his
saloon, on DeSoto street.
A colored man named Cook, a porter
in store on Main street. was shot near
the corner of Main and Exchange streets.
A colored boy on Main street had his
brains beaten out
A shot was fred at a negro man who
was quietly looking through the grating
in front of the billiard saloon in the Gay
oso House. The ball missed him, and
passed in close proximity to two of the
players.
The body of negro who had been
shot, lay in the morning at the corner of
Hernaado and Beal streets.
An attempt was made to fire every
Gov. building In town. In one that was
burned it is said that an immense amount
of Quartermaster's stores were destroyed
The carnival of blood and fire contn-
ued the whole night. The sky was con
tinually lit up, sometimes by one, and a.
gain by several fires in different parts of
the city, at time. Crowds of armed
rioters were moving up and down the
streets, firing, shooting and threatening
negro and Union men. The Post was
repeatedly threatened with violence
Friends inform us that at one time a
crowd up main street, seemed to have been
fully determined that the damned Yam
e-nigger sympathizing Post" should be
wiped out, and that they were the ones
to do it. The only call we received, how
ever, from these lovers of free press,
were from two rufians who fred at the
building, and ran with all their might
No damage was dene.
The rioters seemed determined to re-
peat the tragedy last night by attacking
the teachers of colored schools. the col
ored ministers and Yankees generally.
Yesterday morning found the city
quietly doing after the long nights eK-
citement. South Memphis was nearly
deserted. Dead bodies of negroes were
found here and there in the streets. The
violence during the night had been alto
gether confined to the whites. Indeed
1t is said that fremen can be Unidentified
who were riding about town on horses be-
longing to the Fire Department, and who
fred some of the houses. 1t is charged
too, that numbers of the police Joined the
rioters