The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-09-18

fired at from the Custom house by GER
| tain persons lodged therein, and to de-
! mand from him that this be prohfbitesl.
The shots fired were by the defeated
policemen who took refuge in the
Customhouse, and who kept up a con-
slant fire therefrom. Mr.. Fred Mohr-
man, clerk of the Administrator of
Commerce, was killed whilst peaceably
walking on Tchoupitoulas street. Mr..
J. M. West, an old newspaper man,
was also killed by this volley whilst
he was standing on the neutral ground
taking notes.
The list of killed and wounded, as
far as we could get it, is as follows:
CITIZENS PARTY.
Killed-E. Toledano, cotton weigher;
Fred. Norman, otto employe; Dick
Lindsey, J. M. West, reporter; Major
J. X. Gourdain, Albert Gautier, s. b.
Newman, Jr. Total-12.
Wounded-Major Wells, MORALLY :;
Fidel Keller, E. Bozonier, w. J. But
Ter and others. Total-l3.
The Picayune of the 18th contained
the follywing comments closing the his
tory of the overthrown of the Kellogg
usurpation.
AS might have been expected after
the decisive victories of yesterday and
the consequent decentralization of the
kellogg forces, the finish this morning
was very brief and interpreting affair.
About $3.50 this morning, the State
House was occupied by the citizens
| forces, and by 8 O'Clock the Third Pre-
cent Station and Kellogg's armory, the
last of the Radical government, was,
after a sharp little assault, captured and
appropriated. So ended the Kellogg
regime. Big, inflated, insolent and over
! bearing, it collapsed at one touch of
honest indignation and gallant on
slaught.
Its boosted armament dissolved before
the furious rush of our citizens. It's
sneering, thieving inscriptions chief
| tains hid like moles, and its mercen.
aries fed like stampeded cattle.
A dozen gallant lives, worth more
than all the sneaking carpet-baggere
and ruffian soldiery that ever squatted
on States carcass, have been sacrificed
on the altar of liberty. The blood of
gentlemen and patriots has dyed the
! stones of our throughfaces, and the
shock is over. The Kellogg dynasty
has passed into black and bitter MEM
DRY, and Louisiana throughout it's bor-
ders to-day is free.
When the news OF the surrender Of
the police reached them there was uni
versal delight and cheers. Mayor
Wiltz called at the Governors residence
at about IL O'Clock.
Uur Metropolitans We're caught in
U. 8. attire and arrested. They con-
fessed that they were Metropolians,
they threw away the coats and were
carried up to the headquarters to be
paroled.
Andre Dumont, member of KEEL
logg's Legislature School board then
surrendered himself and gave Some
idea of the inside workings of Kellogg.
According to Mr.. Dumont, Kellogg
disappeared before shot was fired and
has never been heard from since.
A free people, at 9 O'Clock this morn
ing, Louisiana leapetl from bondage into
the full strength and splendor of free
dom. Born down, repressed, tortured
and despoiled for long weary years, the
jest of spectators and the spoil of thieves,
her great arm has at last been lifted and
with one tremendous blow the letters
have been stricken from her limbs. For
this one day, if never again, she breathes
the air of liberty; her prosecutors are
scattered; the scurvy horde of robbers,
paid rufiians and brutal task masters
are vanished.