The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-24
THE MASSACRE AT COL
FAX.
100 BLACK MEN SHOT DOWN AFTER
6URRENDRRING.
Many others Burned in the Court
House.
THIRTY PRISONEh9 SHOT AND
THROWN IN the RIVER.
AN AWFUL STORY.

NEW YORK, April l3.-The Times
special from New Orleans about the
h"etilities 10 Great Parish says not
single coIored man was killed until all
had surrendred to the whites who we're
lighting them, when over 100 we're
shct down. 1t is understood another
lot WAS burned to death 10 tho court
house. after which the whites scattered
10 every direction. few going home
Many left for the Texas border 10 hopes
OF escaping tho consequences of their
crime. The State troops on arriving at
the scene of hostilities buried over ix-
y bodies Of oolored men. Federal
troops cannot proceed for the want Of
transportion.
AN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.
WASHINGTON, April l8.-Attorney
General Williams has received a dis
patch from United State, Marshal Pack
ard, dated New Orlean., 17'h inst, in
which he says Deputy Marshal De.
kiyoe has returned from Coltax, where
ne arrived on Tuesday following the col.
lision of Sunday last, and found the
place almost deserted, except by women
dc buried the remains of 70 colcred
men, found on the field. The dispatch
oontioues
A TERRIBLE STORY.
"It is reported that subsequent to
the burning Of tho court house thirty.
FUR oolored.meo previously made
prisoners were taken to tho river bank
by couples and there shot and thrown
'o'o the river. 1t is also reported that
colored men were shot 10 tho adjacent
woods where their bodies are still lying.
He found also twelve wounded, some
certainly mortally.
The oolored men present, composed
Of posse under direction of Sheriff
Shaw, tho whole appointed by Cover
nor Kellogg, hid taken, possession CT
the court house, and we're still holding
it. From creditable information there
appears to have been 90 loss on the part
of the oolorsd men until after their sur.
render, when theys We're bu,chered
without mercy, after the massacre iu
tho court house, from which they
were elected by setting fire to the build
icg
FORT PILLOW REPEATED.
Sheriff Shaw is missing and is now
supposed to have been killed. MY de-
putty found it impossible to make ar
rests without tho presence of Uoited
States troops. Armed bodies Of whites
are still securing the country. The
assailsnts had in the ir possession a SIX
FOUNDER cannon, taken, OF some allege,
loaned, from the Red River steamer
John 7. Muore." Marshal Packard
closes his dispatch by saying "Whco
the circumstances of this massacre are
fully known it will be found to be
equalled only BY that of Fort Pillow"
ANOTHER OFFICIAL REPORT.
WASHINGTON, April 18.-Attorney
General Williams to-day received the
following:
New ORLEANS, April 1S.-Deruty
Marshal DeKlyne has returned from
Colfax. he arrived there the
day after the massacre. The details
are horrible. The Democrats (white)
of Grant parish attempted to oust the
Republican Parish officers by force and
tailed, the sheriff protecting the officers
with colored posse. Several days af-
terwards recruits from other parishes
to tho uumber Of 300 came to the as.
sistance of the assailants, when they
demanded the surrender of the colored
people. This was refused An attack
was made, and the negroes were driven
into the court house. The court house
was then fred, aud the negroes we're
slaug ghtered as they left tho burning
building.
WORSE AND WORSE.
Sixty'6ve oegroes, terribly mutil
ated, were found dead near tho ruins of
the court house. Thirty known to
have been taken prisoners, and are said
to have been shot after the surrender
aud thrown into tho river. Two of the
assailants were wounded The slauy b ter
is greater than the riot in 1880 In this
city. + will send report by mail.
(Sigued. j. R. B1cKw1rH,
y. S. Attorney.
COL. EMERY INSTRUCTED.
The Acting Secretary of War tele.
graphed this afternoon to Col. Emery
as follows:
WAR DEPARTMENT, April Is, 1873.
To Col. ". II. Emery, Commanding De-
partnnens Of the Gu!f New Orleans:
In case requisitiou is made upon
you by the United States Marshall to
ssslst the United States authorities in
the excutisu Of any judicial process
issued on account of the late distur
bauoe in Great parish, you will render
the necessary military aid for such pur.
pose. ~
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