Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17
following information is telegraphed from New

following glntormatlon ls telegraphed from New
Orleans under date of the 9th instant:
A number of the witnesses of the Consulate
horror have escaped through the woods, and
are expected in this city tomorrow or next
day. 1t would be unsafe to indicate what
point they have now reached, for it would
probably cost them their lives. All the tele-
graph lines in the Red river section are in the
hands of the white leaguers The Associated
Press Office in Shreveport is in the Shreveport
Times building, and all the press dispatches
that have been received have been written by
one of the editors Of that paper. A dispatch
was sent from this city asking the manager
of the Shreveport telegraph to send full de-
tails. In reply came dispatch, signed "Da-
vid Hall, manager" stating that the message
had been personally delivered. As Hall is a
prominent white Lacquer, and the league holds
Shreveport under reign Of terror, it Is need
less to say the person telegraphed to dare send
no information. He is now here. 1t is known
that there has been 7 perfect holocaust OF
colored men in Red river parish, and that
Yates, the. white ex-sheritf of the parish, has
been added to the list of victims.
A dispatch from New Orleans, of the 9th,
gives the following further particulars
Two white refugees from Consulate arrived
here to-day, accompanied by colored man.
They made their escape through the woods to
Monroe, and reached this city in deplorable
condition, without shoes or shirts. One is
Henry a. Scott, of Townsend, Vermont, who
served through the late war as first lieutenant
of the eleventh Vermont artillery, and came
l. J,of
The other is Seth Western, native of
Louisiana, who served in the fourth Louisi-
ana Confederate cavalry, and lost his arm in
the retreat from Miliken's Bend. He has
since the war, like Longstreet, supported the
national administration. They report that
when they left Consulate they were ordered
away by the captain of the white leaguers,
who said if they remained he could not be
responsible for their lives. The swamps stunk
with the purifying corpses of slaughtered
negroes. They state that the six murdered
white prisoners were told to take with them
their watches, jewelry and valuables, for their
captors could not otherwise be answerable for
the safety of their property. They did so
and after they were murdered their bodies
were robbed and stripped. Four of the six
were married men with families. Three of
them had married Southern ladies, and had
their families with them in Consulate. Only
one of them was allowed to see his wife.
Before being led out to execution the guard
that took the prisoners out Of Jail consisted of
thirty.6ve men, we'll mounted and armed
with double.barreled shotguns. The refugees
state that up to the time of their leaving
two days after the murders-the white lea
guers were receiving reinforcements, were
driving in cattle, and taking possession of all
the provisions, &c, in the place, and apparent
ly were preparing to MAINTAIN their position.
They were organized into regular military
companies, oficered and drilled.
The Shreveport Times Of the 9th instant
says editorially 1--WE are engaged in a contest
to protect our rights and properties against the
tyranny of local State despotism, and we
shall prosecute the contest whether the Fed
eral Government sends troops here or not" 1t
adds that "the President must send troops
enough to subjugate lis by physical force, for
the people of Louisiana can no longer be
ground into the dust by the phantom of a Fed.
eral army in the persons of a regiment or so of
soldiers. In the next sixty days Louisiana
must be free State or military camp"