The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-09

The seats were piled up together and bet O.
FIRE. Some whites in the neighborhood, how
ever, succeeded in putting it out befor
serious damage was done.
| A house near Mr.. Rankin's school-house
which was burned on Tuesday, was Gre
during the night. A colored girl, seventee,
years Of age, named Rachel Hatchell, VIII
had been scholar Of Mr.. Rankin's, was sicl
IN this house, and on running out, wa
knocked down, shot and thrown into tho fire
Her body lay in the ashes yesterday morning
burned to crisp, excepting her head ant
shoulders. Some one had kindly thrown
shawl over this horrid spectacle. Corone
Erickson, on making inquest upon the body
found the report true that she was shot before
being thrown into the fire.
The Botanico Medical College, on Bea
street, in which colored schools have beer
kept, was set on fire, but it was put out b,
some teachers who stay in the building.
A grocery kept by an old colored man i,
South Memphis was broken into and robbie,
and he killed in his bed. He was to be seer
lying in bed in just the posture in which b,
was killed yesterday morning.
A large number Of the houses in Soutl
Memphis occupied by the blacks, and some il
other parts of the city, were burned. NJ
efforts were made to stay the flames In one
case four negroes were fastened up in house
and the house set on fire.
A colored man on Alabama street informs
us that his house was broken into and about
$500 in money taken and he beat over the
head, and the same party broke into his
neighbor's house and killed him, locked the
wife and children in the house, set it on fire
and burned it down.
A colored woman named Rhoda Jacobs,
1,-,p bad Lar /
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 demanded Of his Wife
She replied that they had none. The house
was then searced, and everything of any value
taken. Indeed, robbing seems to have been
as much 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,
a pistol was placed at his head and his money
demanded. Twenty-eight dollars were taken
out Of a trunk broken into in the house oil
Becky Pleasant, in South Memphis.
We heard the particulars of the robbing oil
from ten to twelve negroes, from the parties
themselves. The sums taken ran from the
most trihing figures up to ehree hundred dol
lars. One said he was ordered by police.
man on the corner of Beal and DeSoto to give
up his money and his weapons.
A colored man living in the northern por
ton of the town, says they entered his house
on pretense Of searching for arms, and
killed his mother, an old coored woman, in
her bed.
Two or three negroes were shpt in
Chelsea.
Six or seven houses occupied by ne groes
were burned on Echols street.
A building, now private property. bu,
formerly belonging to the Government, was
burned on Gayoso, east of DeSoto street.
The grocery at 81 Causey street, belonging
to colored man, was entered and robbed OF
half its contents.
Bob Church {colored) was shot in his
saloon, on DeSoto street
A colored man named Cook. porter in a
store on Main street, was shot near the cor
ner of Main and Exchange streets
A colored boy on Main streethad 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 Gayoso House. The
ball missed him, and passed in close proxim-
ity to two of the players.
The body OF a negro who had been shot,
lay in the morning at the corner of fernando
An attempt was made to FIRE every Govern
men building III town. In one that was
burned it is said that an immense QUANTITY
of Quartermaster 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 a
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 de
cided that the damned Yankee nigner.svm.
pathizing Post should be wiped out and that
they were the ones to do it. The only call
we received, however, from these lovers of q
free press were from two ruffians, who fred at
the building and ran with all their might. No
damage was done.
The rioters seemed determined to repea,
the tragedy last night by attacking the teach
ers of colored schools. the colored ministers
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 a boat from Mound city,
was asked on the leyee where he was from.
He replied that be was from Mound city.
They called him a ..smoked Yankee robbed
him of his watch and money, broke his arm,
beat him over the head and kicked him off.
Robert Jones (coloredl had just come III
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 police
man, made no arrest of the robber.
colored man named Bob, who works at
Mr.. Odel's livery stable, was stoned as he
was passing the engine house near the corner
OF Adams and Main streets. He fastened to
get ont of the way, and was shot in the leg.
negro was shot in the knee near the cor
ner OF Howard's Row and the levee This
was done by we'll known individual for the
sake of amusement, and was laughed at by
the citizens who saw it.
A large number of armed men from the
country arrived on the morning train. They
hoped to have hand in putting down great
negro instruction. 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 night
had been altogether confined to the whites
Indeed. it is said that fremen can be ident-
fed who were riding about town on horses
belonging to the Fire Department, and who
fired some of the houses. 1t is charged, too,
that numbers of the police joined the rioters
RAGGED School Story ABOUT GESER-
ous BoY.-In speech at Leith on the 9th
ult., the Rev. Dir. Guthrie told the following
story: On one OCCASION very serious crime