Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-05-17


The grocery at 81 Causey street, belong.
ing TO a colored man, was en- cred and robbed
Of half its contents.
Bob Church (colored) was shot in his sa.
loon on De Soto street.
"a colored man named Cook, porter in
a store on Main street, was shot near the
corner OF Main and Exchange streets.
A colorei boy on Main street had his
brains beaten out.
A shot was fred at negro man who was
quietly looking through the grating in front
of the billiard saloon in the Gayosa House.
The ball missed him, and passed in close
proximity to two of the players.
The body of a negro who had been shot,
lay in the morning at the corner OF Herman
do and Beal streets. ..-
An attempt was made to fire every Gov
ernment building in town. In one that was
burned, it IL said that an immense amount
of Quartermasters stores were destroyed.
The carnival of blood and fire continued
The whole night The sky was continually
lit up, sometimes by one, and again by four
or five fires in different parts Of the city, at
time Crowds of armed rioters were
moving up and down the streets, firing
shooting and threatening negroes 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 decided that the ' damned
Yankoe-nigger-sympathizing Post y should
be wiped ont, and that they we're the ones
to do it, The only call we received, how
ever from these lovers of a free press was
from two ruffians who fired at the building,
and ran with all their might. No damage
was done.
The rioters seemed determined to repeat
the tragedy last night by attacking the
teachers Of colored schools, the colored min
listers, and Yankees generally.
Although the city was generally quiet, the
assaults and robbery of negroes continued.
A colored man named Louis Bennett, who
had just come on boat from Mound City,
was asked on the levee where he was from.
He replied that he was from Mound City
They called him smoked Yankee, rob-
bed him of his watch and money, broke his
arm, beat him over the head, and kicked
him off
Robert Jones tcolored) had just come in
from the country, and was standing on the
corner of Beal and Causey streets in the
forenoon. A man, appearing to be police
man, took his pistol and twenty.nine dollars
in money, and, as he turned to leave, thrust
a knife into. his back, under the shoulder
blade. Another. standing by, known to be
policeman, made no arrest OF the rohber.
A colored man named Bob, who works at
Mr.. Odell's livery stable, was stoned as he
was passing the Engine House near the
corner of Adams and Maia streets. He
FASTENED to get out of the way, and was shot
in the leg.
A negro was shot in the knee near the
corner of Howard's Row and the levee. -
This was done by well known individual
for the sake of amusement, and was laughed
at bv the citizens who saw it.
I~'-A'4arer numberof armed men from the
country arrived on the morning train They
hoped to have hand in putting down a
great negro insurrecfion. Very general
quiet was however maintained.
Yesterday morning found the city quietly
doing after the long nights excitement.-
South Memphis was nearly deserted. Dead
bodies Of negroes were found here and there
in the streets. The violence during the
niaht had been altogether confined to the
whites. Indeed. it is s,id that fremen
can be identified who were riding about town
on horses belonging to the Fire Department,
and who fred some of the houses. 1t is
charged. too, that numbers of the police
Joined the rioters