Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-11-03
A Political Battle In Louisiana.

slAfEEN NESROES AND TWO WHITES KILLED.
The exciting canvass which has been waging in
the third Congress district OF Louisiana, culmina-
ted In serious riot at Loreauvfe or Fausse Ponte
on Bayou Teche, about fifteen miles above New
Iberia. The contest in this district is between
Kellogg, republican, and Gay, democrat. Saturday
morning Judge Fonteiieu with eight or ten promi-
nent republicans Of New Iberia, rode over to
Loreauville, to hold a meeting in the interest Of
OF the speakers was addressing it, there were loud
shouts OF "Gay!" "Gay!" which almost drowned
m ms voice Ihese interruptions caused considerable
gun. The first shot is said to have come from a
negro, who fired at Joe Guilfoux, a white demo-
the crowd, both democrats and republicans, had
gone to the meeting armed. This first shot was
followed by nearly thousand, and regular bat
tie enSued, fuSillade following fusillade. When
finally the smoke cleared away, the battlefield was
found covered with dead and wounded There
were over a dozen dead horses lying on the ground
as many OF the audience had come to the meetinS
on horseback: The dead were Guilfoux, a leading
Gay man, and against whom the first shot was
fred; captain Bell, prominent sugar planter OF
the parish; Oliver Boutte coored republican. one
Qf the party which came from New Iberia with
Fonteheu TO- to organize the meeting, and six other
negroes The wounded number over twenty r.
Vialor the late sheriff OF the parish and the lead
ing figure In the late contest for Office, was shot
twice In the abdomen, and viii die Jules Mestayer
the republican candidate for sheriff, had his THIGH
broken and Is seriously injured. AS soon as the
contest was over courier was dispatched to
The sheriff organized posse OF fifty or seventy
five men, who left, armed with rifles and double
barrel shotguns, for the scene OF the trouble. A
number of arrests were made. among them Ju ige
Iheodore Fontel1eu, Adolph Fontelieu, L Fonte-
lieu and an Adolph Breniene, oil republicans, who
were charged with 1nStgating and inciting the riot
They were brought to New iberia under heavy
guard and placed in the parish jail.
Coroner Manvilie, who came In late last evening"
says sixteen negroes and two white men were
Killed. great many negroes stood and fought
untn they emptied their pistols The majority,
however, stampeded. Hundreds OF them jumped
into bayou, and some, being wounded, did not
get out Others ran, and some fell down on the
way and died. One negro was found near by in his
cabin dead. without bIuise on him. 1t is stl un-
known how many were killed, but 1t is certain that
sixteen, and probably twenty, lives were lost
Nearly all OF those killed received their wounds
from stray shots It is reported that the white re-
publicans present were armed with breast-plates,
secured f0r the occasion. No further trouble is ex
pected.
NFoRMATIoE FROM REPUBLICAN SOURCES
are to the effect that the Blaine, Logan and Kel-
logg meeting at Loreauville was broken up by
armed democrats, who fired at the speakers and
into the assembled republicans; that eight men
were killed ana wounded, and that all the republ-
can speakers were arrested by the local militia and
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