Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-05-17
THE SCENES ON WEDNESDAY NIaur.


Rebels, SC.
THE SCENES ON WEDNESDAY MOTT.
The Memphis Post, of Fridav, contains
the following account of the frightful events
of the third day of the outbreak in that
city,
The riot was kept up all Wednesday
night. Crowds Of armed citizens were gath
cred at the corners. Many wore half drunk.
The great feat of the roughs was the burn
ing of the colored school houses, churches
and homes They seemed to have acted in
concert, and to have carried out programme
| which had been previously arranged. This
| is shown by the clean sweep which was ma 10
of every building used for colored school
or place of worship by the colored people,
but most strongly by the conduct of the
rioters on the burning ofthe Collins Chapel.
This colored Church stands on Washington
street, and cost $1,000.
After getting this we'll under the control
of The flames, the leader Of the desperadocs
called upon them to "fall in" which was
done in style which would have reflected
credit upon any military organization, and
proceeded to blacksmith shop on Alabama
street, near Bull Run, which, as it belonged
to peaceable black man, was burned. We
have received the names of quite number
who shared the glories of this part of the
field; but whether they participated in set
ting the fires in other parts of the city we do
not know.
The Colored Baptist Church on Main
street, near Overton, was burned. This was
of brick the Oldest colored church in the
city. 1t was owned by the colored people.
The colored church on Poplar street was
burned; also the Lincoln Chapel, on Union
street. This belonged to the American Mis-.
sionary Association, and cost one thousand
dollars 1t was insured for eight hundred
dollars.
Every colored church was burned.
The colored schools we're kept in the bar
racks formerly occupied by the Provost
Guard. These were all burned. They were
located at follows: One at the east end of
South street, containing two schools; one at
the corner Of Main and Vance streets with
one school; one at the corner of Bea and
| Wellington streets, two schools; one at the
corner of fernando and Pontatoc streets,
and one at the corner of Lauderdale and
Vance streets. three schools. This also con.
tanned the stores of the W estern Freedmen's
Aid Society, valued at about three thousand
dollars, besides about one hundred Govern
ment beds, which were destroyed. That on
Poplar street. east of the bayou, containing
two schools, was also burned.
O, Loud and repeated tbrests were made by
the rioters that when they had destroyed
the colored school houses they would kill the
teachers. The threats we're so violent, and
the rioters having shown themselves capable
of any brutality, it was deemed prudent that
they should go North. They all left for
Cairo on the ST. Louis packet. Many of the
l.l I,,. boz hair yuIp q Ul
with these ladies'
An attempt was made to burn ColwelPs
Hall, near the corner of Gayosa and Third
streets. This hall belongs to a wealthy and
| influential colored men, from whom it takes
its name, and is the most frequently used
by the colored people for public meetings. -
| The windows and doors were broken down,
aud the chandeliers and light furniture des
treyed The seats were piled UP together
and set on fire. Some whites in the neigh
borhood, however, succeeded in putting it
out before serious damage was done.
A house near Mr. Rankin's school house,
which was burnt on Tuesday, was firing dur
ing the night. A colnred girl, seventeen
years of age named Rachell Hatchell, who
had been scholar OF Mr.. Rankin's, was
sick in this house, and on running out was
knocked down, shot and thrown into the fire
Her body lay in the ashes yesterday morning
burned to a crisp, excepting her head and
shoulders. Some one had kindly thrown a
shawl over this horrid spectacle. Coroner
Erickson, on making inquest upon the body,
found the report true that she was shot be-
fore being thrown into the fire.
The Botanico Medical College, on Beal
street, in which colored schools have been
kept, was set on fire, but was put out by
some teachers who stay in the building
A grocery kept by an old colored man in
South Memphis was broken into aud robbed,
and he killed in his bed. He was to he seen
lying in bed in just the posture in which he
was killed, yesterday morning.
A large number of the houses in South
Memphis occupied by the blacks, and some
in other parts of the city, we're burned No
effort was made to stay the flames. In one
case four negroes we're fastened up in a
house, aud the house set on fire.
A colored man on Alabama street informs
us that his house was broken into, and about
two hundred dollars taken, and he beaten
over the head and the same patty broke
into his neighbours house, killed him, locked
the wife and children in the house, set it or
fire and burned it down.
A colored woman named Rhoda Jacobs
while lying in bed with her child at hel
home in South Memphis, was shot in the
breast
John Mason (colored) was shot in th'
head while in his house in the same neigh
borhood. His money was then demanded
of his wife. She replied that they had none
; The house was then searched, and every
thing Of any value taken, Indeed, robbins
seems to have been as much the object o
the rioters as negro killing One negro wa
asked If be had any arms, and on his answer
q ing that he had not, pistol was placed a
his head and his money demanded. Twenty
eight dollars was taken out of a trunk broke
: into in the house of Becky Pleasant, in Sout
Memphis. i.. ..'.-... .....,...
We heard the particulars of the robbin
of from ten to twelve negroes. from the pal
ties themselves. The sums taken ran fror
: tthe most triaing up to three hundred do
lars. One said he was ordered by police
men on the corner OF Beal and DeSota. t
give up his money and weapons. A colore
- man living in the Northern portion OF tn
: town. says they entered his house on. prt
tense of searching tor arms, and killed hi
mother, an old cclored woman, in her bed
Two or three negroes were shot in Che
J sea, .'.,..,,..
Six or seven houses occupied by negroe
were buined on E0hols Street. ''' Nv