Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-04-24
RIOT III LOUISIANA.


about 1920 this afternoon, brings stir
ring and important news from Grant
Parish. The whites have retaken Col
fax, and there is not negro to be
found for miles around. From pass
enger On the Southwestern We CLEAN
the following:
The negroes had strongly entrench
ed themselves in the Court House, ard
built breast-works three and four feet
high. There were, it is said, about
four hundred men around, and equipped
thoroughly. On Sunday, about l
o'clock, about one hundred and fifty
men, who had gathered from the sur
rounding parishes, made an attack on
the breastw orks, and brisk fight was
kept up until somewhere near 8 o'clock.
The breastworks were then storlned
and captured, the negroes taking refuge
in the Count House, the doors Of which
were barricaded. After some further
fighting the negroes threw cut a flag
Of truce, and several detachments of
men advanced on ii, when they were
fred on by the besieged party, wound
ing several, of whom was Captain
Hadnot, who WAS shot in the bowels,
and it is feared fatally wounded.
They retreated on the outside of the
bresstworks ane as the only means OF
dislodging the negros the Court House
was set on FIRE, and they were shot as
they came from the burning building,
1t is reported that between eighty and
one hundred negroes were killed, and
there were none to be found for miles
around
The Captsin of the steamboat South
western makes the following statement:
We arrived at Colfax Sunday evening
about 8 o'clock, and found that the
white people, End Sheriff, I suppose,
a. their head, had captured the town
after having a conflict with the negroes.
1t was reported to me that about one
hundred negroes had been killed and
many others wounded.
We saw from the boat fifteen or
twenty lying around on the bank, dead:
One white man was reported killed,
whose name did not learn, and two
seriously wounded-Messrs Hadnot
and Harris Mr.. Hadnot was shot
through the bowels, land supposed to be
MORALLY wounded We brought Har-
ris and Hadnot down from Colfax to
Alexandra. Tires or four other
white men were slightly wounded.
About 100 negroes, escaped, but it was
reported the whites were still pursuing
them. AL Of the leaders of the riot
escaped, especially the white men,.
The negroes having anabuscsded
themselves in the Court House, and the
whites finding there was no other mode
of attack left them, set fire to the build
ing. The whites numbered in the
neighborhood Of $50 men. The fight
lasted from IL o'clock until nearly 5
p. m. The whites are now in possess
ion of Colfax, and when l left, last Sur
day night, everything was very quiet.
The Franklin Ola } Planters Banner
of Wednesday gives the following &C
count Of the origin OF the difficulty:
On Wednesday last crowd of ne
groes, armed with double barrsl shot
guns and headed by a colored man
named Ward, entered the town of Col
tax. took possession of the Court House,
and BUSTING the parish officers assumed
their functions. 1t appears that after
the election two sets OF officers were
appointed, one by .Pinchback and the
other by the McEnery government.
The parish is conceded to be white.
These appointments led to dis
agreement, and few days ago dele
cation, headed by Mr.. Rutland on the
fusion side and Ward on the other,
visited Gov. Kellogg. High words
ensued between the contestants, Rut-
land saying that they had the Offices
and were determined to keep them,
aud Ward rejoining, to effect, that
there would be no trouble about the
colored men seating themselves when
once they made up their minds
Both left for home, and, as before
stated, Ward opened the ball on We'd
nesday. After having secured possess
ion, Rutland's house was attacked, sack
ed, and himself and family driven from
the parish. Ward is described as a
negro of a most insolent MANNER. and,
if report is to be credited, he has been
the ring-leader in several. disturbances.
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