Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-09

hearing of your correspondent on the cor
ner of St. Charles and Canal streets.
Lieut.. Butts of the Freedmen's Bureau
has been murdered and robbed in jackson
Parish.
We extract the following additional de-
tails of the mob from the New Orleans
correspondence of the Tribune:
at this moment, the police, in force,en-
tered Dryades street from the Common
street side, each man with his revolver in
his hand. They proceeded rapidly to the
Institute amid the cheers of the white
portion Of the populace. Arriving at the
building, several of the policemen stopped
down and fired through the iron gates, up
the alley, on the Canal street side OF the
building, the shots falling upon the mass
of black processionists. This firing was
begun without warning or notice to the
colored men to surrender or disperse, and
was mUrderOus in the extreme.
Unable to escape or make united de-
tense, the black men fired occasional shots
and rushed ouS individually, but were met
By a volley, or by the dubbed pistols OF
the police. Any one who succeeded in
evading the first shots were chased for
squares by the police, who discharged
their ~revolvers in all directions, wound
ing and manning indiscriminately. Many
of the police were shot. Having cleared
the passage way, the police rushed up
stairs to the hall of the Convention, driy-
ing many of the colored people before
them. They found the doors closed and
a white flag extending into the hall, as a
token that those within constituted a de-
Lucrative body, assembled under the re-
~cogrized authority of Governor of the
State, and that they were unarmed and
peaceful men. The Convention had Just
taken g recess of half an hour, when they
were ordered to open the doors Imme-
diately upon obeying the order the police
fired a volley into the room among the
members and the people
a suggestion had been made in the
room before the assault of the police, that
any person who was armed had better
seek to escape. Capt. John Burk, late
Chief Of Police, being the only armed
man, left the room. When the police
fired no one had weapons to return the
fire. Several members ofLhe Convention
fell. severely wounded. The Honorable
Michael Hahn was hit by bullets on the
head and in the body. His condition is
critical. The Honorable John Henderson,
an old resident of Louisiana, and one of
the staunchest of her Union men, was
shot several times, and is severely wound
ed. Half an hour ago l saw him, in great
suffering covered with blood, conveyed to
his home. Some ore walking beside the
carriage asked where was his wound. The
- --s4l H. LnIs4-n1 -
claimed: "D-mn the wound if only we
whip EN-"
The Hon. Alfred Shaw is severely shot
in the back. The Hon. W. r. Fish is
badly beaten. His brother is shot and
stabbed, probably, fatally.
DR.. w. II. Hier, late coroner, is serious
" wounded. DR.. A. P. Dostie Quilted
the building and was knocked down in
the street. While lying bleeding and
almost insensible, he was shot 70 death by
policemen and stabbed with a sword-cane
in the most horrible manner. The Rev.
mr.. sI--lAn is dreadfully bSEten his re-
covery is doubtful IA&Acuored that
Judge Field is killed. Inc non. r. King
Cutler barely escaped with his life. Can't. |
John BJrk, late Chief of Police, was shot |
and severely wounded as he was issuing
from the building. Having a good re-
volver, and knowing how to use it, Capt.
Bnrk fought his way out, sending as good
as he got.
Many others were wounded. After
upon the members the police Ar
rested them and took them 10 prison.
Gov. Wells, the Hon. Michael Hahn,
Judge Howell, Mr.. Fish, the Rev. Mr..
Horton, r. King Cutler, DIR. Hier, Alfred
Shaw, and the Hon. John Henderson,
with many Others, were taken to the police
station under circumstances of great bar
Every n who came out of the
Institute" whether black or white, was
hot at indiscriminateIy. After the muir
Ter or the arrest Of the white men the
resumed their shooting of the col
red men. Upon the entrance of the Do
into the building, where many of
he colored men remained, shots were
leard, and Immediately the police an
reared dragging q dead or wounded black
nan. These were drawn in a bean on
he pavement or were pitched into dirt
arts and sent away, the living and the
cad together.
This deliberate murder and subsequent
Raging out was continued three hours.
me black man was shot, but not killed.
lie was forced under a tire-plug and stran-
led with water. Others who came down
nd surrendered were shot dead in their
racks. (
The brutality and cruelty of the police
Iceed belief, indeed, there was little vio-
nee done by the populace, in proportion l
their number. Almost all of those in {
10 street, except the iremen, were half $
boys, easily dispersed. {
The police were marshaled and directed c
such men as Lucien Adams, the most I
urderous Thug of the South. They :
every indignity 20 the dead. 1t IS 7
id that they drove the pOpulace from /
me Of the living prisoners. They cap a
red Mr.. Fish unhurt, bat wounded him Il
ockingly while conveying him to prison. c
boosted how many they had killed. D
d exulted over the massacre.
The skirmishing continued on Canal N
d Bourbon streets until nearly 8 p. m, ?
which time a regiment O~fcolored infan- :,
and two squadrons of white cavalry. =,
tn a battery of artillery, appeared on "
nal street. The extent, continuance. :,
d frightful a%trocity of this dav, so far as a,
" are affected by local influence, are .,
attributable to the absence of Gen h,
eridan. Had that prompt and great W
nmander been in the city, the shocking h,
mes Of to-day could not have occurred ::
his absence, the control of affairs de- ~
Ived upon the weak and irresolute hands
Gen. Absalom Baird. There was a
able obligation on Gen. Baird to pre-
ut or arrest the fearful slaughter. He "
not only commander Of the De-
but he is Assistant Commits 20
ner Of the Freedmen's Bureau. whose re
,cial and solemn duty it is to supervise he
ateyer affects the interests of the freed tn
n. Gen. Baird failed in both, snd the 90
cd OF nearly a hundred of u best la
ion men, and-of 200 cOlored men lies rio
.he feet of Commander and Commits er,
her Baird. He was fully informed of va
condition of affairs, and had been i'm W,
tuned by the very Union men now fai
lghtered by his neglect to prepare for thi
contingencies. Gen. Baird not Fe
failed to prepare, but not until the otl
riot had continued five hours did on
place troops on the sceneof horror, and no
then, until those gallant officers Gen me
IS Mower and Lee demanded that he siO
1ld do SO. csI
t Is more than suspected that General an,
I'd was Indifferent to the issue until aso
peril of the city and the corpses of cor
un1ra1 murdarad man 10000 L.