The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-18
THE WAR COMMENCED.
A Collision Between the white Boys snd
Negro Men.


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About o'clock yesterday afternoon, com.
mittee Of about twenty boys from the High
School called ut the Keller School On Maya
nolia street. between st. Andrew and Felicity
Road, tor the purpose of ascertaining if the
said school was mixed, and on finding some
three or four negroes in the building, imme-
diately ordered them to leave, which was
done in very few moments time. After they
had left the building with their traps, the
young gentleman thinking that all was well,
Left for town. when, in about half an hour,
some fifty negroes armed with clubs and
brick-bats appeared in front Of the school to
protest against the action taken by the boys
in removing the blacks. ..lst{t ..s..
The negro scholars in the colored school, at
the corner of St. Andrew and Willow streets,
two squares from the Keller School, heard q
rumor that the boys were coming over to
clean out their school, which created SO much
excitement in the building that the teachers
were obliged to dismiss school, and instructed
the blacks to go home in order to avoid
trouble. However, both white and black
boys met about half way between the Keller
and negro schools near the Keller Market.
On both parties meeting general row en-
sued in which, besides the boys, black men and
women took part, which resulted in the white
boys being driven back by a mob of three to
one on the opposing side, with about three or
four slightly injured, when they beat hasty
retreat and returned in short time with a
large reinforcement of boys, when the fight
was again renewed. A colored man named
Eugene Duclostenge, who was engaged in the
first engagement, was running away from
the scene OF battle, and, when on Felicity
road, between Magnolia and Clara streets,
about square from the place, dropped in the
middle of the street, and was removed to Mr.
Bulktay's house onTerpsichore street, between
Locust and Freret, where he died in ten min
utes after he was placed in bed, although every
assistance possible was rendered by the people
in the house to save his life. Officer Cheevers
who was trying to squelch the disturbance,
was struck and severely injured in the
stomach with brick-bat by one of the infu-
rated negroes who was engaged in the fight
Officer Williams also received terrible blow
in the chest with club by some unknown
negro. in the same crowd.
The negroes having learned that Duclos-
tenge had been murdered by the whites inn
mediately surrounded the market, most Of
them coming from the rear portion Of the city
About 2:3O o'clock in the afternoon fully 800
blacks were in and around the Keller Market,
apparently ready to kin every white man in
the vicinity, but were quietly driven away by
the citizens around the market without the
necessity Of firing off gun. DR.. G. p. Ames,
City Physician, and Coroner Chastant called at
the house where the dead man was laid out,
and after carefully examining the body were
unable to find any marks of violence.
although it was rumored among the negroes
that Duclostenge had been struck in the
neck in the fight, opposite the school-house
Coroner Chastant, after picking jury, ad-
After which the body was removed to his
residence on Euterpe, between Baronne and
Carondelet streets.
About o'clock in the evening several pis-
tol shots were fred off by the negroes in the
rear part of the city, which must have been
done for the purpose of intimidating the peo-
pie, as the police and citizens were unable to
find out who had done the shooting, after can
vaSsinc the rear norton Of the district as Har
back as the draining machine.