The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-27
SATURDAYS RIOT.

We have so far been enabled to gather the
following additional particulars of the at .ir of
Saturday last:
Our account, as far as we can gather. was sub-
stantialy correct, as published in Sundays CREs.
CENT. The origin of the affair is no " as much a
mystery ss it was when we penned that article.
and that it will ever be fathomed is we think. inn.
probable.
We have since heard that on Saturday night.
| about liz O'Clock. as q party of white men were
| walking along Camp street, between Erato and
Thalia, they were overtaken and fired into by the
Grant negro club, whose headquarters is near
| there. They returned the fire. In the melee
! which followed, DR.. J. B. Duff, the president of
the Sey Guides, raised his pistol to fire.
when negro struck il with heavy club, break
ing it. Another negro hit Dr. Duff in the head
with an ak or hatchet knocking him down and
wouuding him terribly. He was about to repeat
the blow when he was shot oy some one another
negro then struck Mr.. Leary, who was with DIR.
Duf, in the head with an ak or hatchet, hurting
him most severely. 1t the same riot a Mr.. Long
was shot In the abdomen, as to whether danger
ously or not we cannot say. The negroes as far
as known lost bat one killed and ever al wounded
About Ill o'clock police officer found q Mr..
Brady, shot twice through the head and dead in
the gutter on Melpomene street, between Pry-
tania and Camp. The officer tracked this man
two squares by the trail Of blood he left behind
him and then found him dead. Mr. Cornelius Sui.
livan was found dead corner of Camp and Thalia
streets.
About l O'Clock the negro barber shop next
door to the upper corner of Thaa and Camp
streets, known as a resort of the worst class OF
negroes, and sort Of headquarters of the club
which nearly killed Or. Duff and his friends, was
broken into and all the club paraphernalia in il
destroyed, as was also mirror and three drums.
There WAS great deal of firing throughout all
the back part Of the Fourth District after IL
O'Clock. No casualties, however, that we could
hear Of.
Casualties.
The following is the list of killed and wounded
as far as We can ascertain:
KILLED.
The following white men:
Cornelius Sullivan.
Patrick Brady.
The following colored men:
Nelson Deny.
Alfred Andrews.
Frank Hoskins.
Edward Jones.
A colored man found at the corner Of Poydras
and Franklin streets.
Joseph Antoine, aged IL. son of G. C. Antoine,
State senator he was either bruised OF tsampled
to death.
WOUNDED.
The following white men:
Mr.. Wallace, Of the Workingmen, in the leg.
DIR. Duff
Mr.. Lesry.
Mr.. Long.
The coored man
James Williams.
None Of the bodies were viewed By the coroner
and none Of the deaths are as yet recorded In his
books.
Incidenta
At the cor1er Of DTyades street and Triton
Walk, the headquarters Of a Radical club. could
be seen, about midnight, crowd of negroes In
uniform, some Of them loaaing muskets. About
them were standing a nnaber of negro women,
and tenement, not fsr away, was alive with
coored people, crowded about the doorways and
windows, looking out.
Just after the rio. was over on Canal street
three members of the metropolitan police came
up very much ont Of breath, and wanted to
know where tho fuss was and I" who fted that
pistol"
There were but three arrests made on SatAr-
day night. One gentleman, Mr.. Martin, was ar
rested for firing of pistol in the city sad the
Others for carrying concealed weapons. Consid-
ering that one of these gentlemen hsi & musket,
the concealed" part is good,