The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-08
from the Memphis Posi- /


drunk. The great feat of. the roughs
was the burning of the colored school
houses, churches and homes. They
seem TO have acted in concert, and to
have carried out a programme which
had been previously arranged. This
IS shown by the clean sweep which
was made of every building used for
a colored school or place of worship
by the colored people, but most |
strongly by the conduot-nf theri~a
ON the burning of Oaiii- .ssers
This colorea Oh Inns Chapel.
inetnn o arch stands on Wash
49, s,sreet, and cost 81. 900,
Alter getting this well under the
controi eSr the flames, the leader of the
aesperadoes called upon them to :. fall
in, which was done in a style which
would llRvu reflected credit upon any
military organization, and proceeded
to a blacksmith shop ON Alabama
Street, near Bull Run, which, as it,
belonged to a peaeeable black man,
was burned. We have received the
names of quitea 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 Colered Baptist Church on
Main street, near Overton, was burned.
This was of brick, and the, oldest
colored,. church IN the city 1t was
owned by the colored people.
The colered church ON Poplar
street was burned also Lincoln Chapel
on Union street. This belonged to
the American Missionary Association,
and cost one thousand dollars. 1t
was insured for eight hundred dollars
Every colored church was burned.
The colored schools were kept in
the barracks formerly occupied by the
Provost Guard. These were all burned.
They were located as follows: one mt
the east end of South street. contain
ing two schools; one at the corner of
Main and Vance streets, with one
school; one at the corner of Beal and
Wellington streets, two schools; one
at the corner of fernando and P0nto-
took streets, and one at the corner of
Lauderdale and Vance streets, three
schools. This also contained the
stores of the Western Freedmen S
Aid Society, valued at about three
thousand dollars, besides about one
hundred Government beds, which
we're destroyed. That on Poplar
Street, east of the bayou, containing
two schools, was also burned.
Loud and repeated threats were
made by the rioters that when they
had destroyed the colored school
houses they would kill the teachers.
The threats were so violent, and the
rioters having shown themselves ca
pable 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 officers on duty
Is here sent their wives away with these
ladies.
An attempt was made to burn Col
wells Hall, near the corner of Gayoso
and Third Streets. This hall belongs
to wealthy and influential colored
4 man, 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, and the chandeliers and light
furniture destroyed. The seats were
piled up together and set on fire.
Some whites in the neighborhood,
Il, ~
before serious damage was DONE
A house near Mr.. Rankin's school
house, which was burnt on Tuesday,
was fred during the night A colored
girl seventeen years of age, named
Rachel Hatchell, who lad been a
scholar of Mr. Rankin s.. was sick in
the house, and ON running out was
knocked down, shot and thrown into
the fire. Her body lay in the ashes
yesterday morning, burned to crisp,
excepting her head and shoulders.
Some one had kindly thrown shawl
over this horrid spectacle. Coroner
Erickson, ON making inquest upon the
body, found the report true that she
was shot before she was thrown into
the FIRE.
The Botanico Medical College, OF
Beale Street, in which colored schools
have been kept, was set on fire, but i
was put out by some teachers wht
stay in the building. 1
A grocery kept by an old coloreC
man in South Memphis was broker
into and robbed, and he Killed in his
bed. He was to be seen lying in be-
In lust the posture in which he wa
killed yesterday morning.
Al large number of the houses il
South Memphis occupied by tn
20 blacks, and some in other parts of tn
city, were burned. No effort wa
made to stay the flames. In one cas-
four negroes were fastened up in
ao.I house. and the house set on fire.
A colored man on Alabama Stree
rs informs us that his house was broke
into and about two hundred dollars i
money taken, and he beaten over tn
head. and the same party broke int
- - Ii I,n,.'a.. hn11oe Killed hin