, 1873-04-16
I: A WAR. OF RACES.
Battle BetWeen tho Blacks and
| Whites in Grant Parish,
Louisiana.
About 100 Negroes Killed in q
Conflict at Colflx
Courthouse.
1ho Africans Driven from Their Barri.
eades Into The Building.
When Hard Pressed, They Hang |
0ut a Flag of Truce--Their
Cruel 1reaehery. |
:lhe 1noensed Whites Fire the f}ourt.
House aud Shoot the Es,
Gaping 1amates;;,
Horrid elimination Of the Po-
At1cal Chaos In LOU
isiana.
Full History Of the Trouble--Its {)rie;n !
and Progress. r
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Horrid Culmination Of the po-
itical Chaos In Lou
isia1a.
Full History Of the Trouble--Its {)rie;n
and Progress.

NE" ORLEANS, April l5.-Tho stean,hoo
southwestern, which arrived at about 1so o'c,oo,
this evening, brings stirring and important nav
from Grant Parish.
iae Whites havo rotaken Colfax and th,,o !,
not negro to DO found for miles around. Frop
passengers on tho southwestern no c,can n.
following: T.
Tho negroes had atrongly ontreucbed than.
eel'ea In tho Court House, md built bteastuory1a
'nfee aud four feet high. There wero It Ia eaid
aooue 4oo mon arracd md equipped thorouehlv.
on Sunday, at about u O'clock, about TN
white men. who had gathered from thu sur.
rounding parlaheB mado m attaok on tl,e }yeast.
works, md brisk fight ,yas kent uu until aoro..
whoFe noar O'Clock. Tho broastworks usro
'non sformed and cnpturcd, the negroes tal,inp
| 1efugo IN the Court House, tho doors Of ,yb,,,,
[ were harricaded,
1ter aome lighting tho negroes t1,rev mt .
nag OF fruco, and eovoral detachment, NJ man od
vaneod On 1t, ''hoa they wero fred on by tho be-
slegea party, wounding several, ono OF whom IVA.
oapf' Hadnot, who waa shot in tho bowels. and
It's feared fatally wounded.
They retreatod on tho outsldo Of The bro.at-
"ofkd' and, as tho only moans If dis,odpfnp thu
negroes, the court-Houno was ct On fra. AMI
shey uero shot as they oamo from tho burning
ooffd1ng' 1t ts reported that betvoen 50 and nm
negroes voro killed, and there were none mn, h
bo found for miles around.
1ho Captain Of tho steamboat southveater,,
MAKES the following statement:
We arrived at Collar On suuaav eyon;,o oho,,.
. O'clock, and found that tho white peonlo. md
mo sheriff I suppose at their head, had cnptured
18o to"n' alter having had conflict with thu
negrooa' It was reported to me- about 100 naz
eFoea lad oaon killed, and many others voundoa
we saw from tho boat shout eighteen or tyyontv
'yln8 around On tho banks. doad. Ono white
nan WAS reported ti1tcd, whose namo did mt :
eafn' aud two very scrious]y woundod-AtesAra.
asdaot and Harris. Mr. Hadnot was s|,ot ,,
nron8h tho bowels. and 1t is supposed be In !
nortaily woundod We brought Mesars Harr,a a
ND haonot down from oolfa1 to Aoxauaria, +
'hroe Or four other white men yore s,jeht5p 9
rounded. n
aooos 1oo negroes osoapcd, but 1t vas reported
'at the whites we're still pursuing them. Auof
10 l'adofa Of tho riot ESCAPED, especially tia
hlsa men. The negroea ambuHcaded tbo,n;
'1ses In tho oourt-Hoaso, aud tho wl,itos, find.
3 snat thero WAS no other t1od6 81 attaok ,ott
en, set fro to the building. The yhltes MN. II
'fed IN the ne'ghborhood Of 100 men Tim r.
'nt lasted from about "a m. until near D. ~ r.
10 "hifes arc now In possession OF Oolfax, and ri
ION loft. late last Sunday night, oyerythna 70, t5
II Very quiet, M