Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-02
Race Troubles.

Between and 3 o'clock yesterday sfter-
noon an excursion train, composed entirely
of colored people, arrived at the Goulds-
boro depot, Louisiana, from Baton Rouge
A large number of colored men and women
were near the depot waiting for the train,
which was due at IL O'clock As the train
neared. the depot one of the excursionlsts
attempted to get off and fell to the ground.
Some unknown person made personal re-
mark, when the negro drew pistol and
| fred four or i've shots in rapid succession,
oee of which struck William Miller, white,
brother of one of the Gretna police, in
| the nose ADD lodged itself in the back of
| the neck. Then the shooting became gen.
| eral, some 400 or 500 shots being fired in
lees than fifteen minutes Ed. Levy, col.
ored man living in Aigisrs. was shot in the
left arm, and oolored woman named Flem
ing was also fatally shot in the back. A
terrible panic occurred, women and chill.
dren running in all directions, shouting and
screaming, leaving dishes, baskets, hats,
shoes, etc. Several negroes, who claimed to
have formed part of the excursion party,
being interview wed, state that when the train
was nearing Gouldsboro depot it was
fred on by men who were secreted
along the line of the railroad track,
and when the shooting commenced the
train was yet in motion, and as soon aa
it stopped general stampede took place.
About 1870 o'clock yesterday morning
big blaze WAS seen near the line between
Algiers and Jefferson parish La. The AL
giers fire department started TO the scene
and found large number OF men armed
with muskets, etc., and q negro church on
fire. There was no water at hand and the
church was entirely consumed. Just after
the fra at the colored church coiored man
named Ben Watkins, aged rs years, was
shot in the breast and slightly wounded by
some unknown parties.
Grenada Missy special says: "a tela.
gram was received here yesterday morning
saying that negroes were massiDg near Shell
Mound, LIE Flore county, Miss, and that
COD fl ct between the whites and blacks Was
expected. Help was called for, as the ne
groes outnumbered the whites six to one
A volunteer company of about forty men
was raised here ia an hour or two, and left
on the 12:l5 train for the scene of the trou-
bic, commanded by Hon. j @. Longstreet.
A company of cavalry left here last night.
a dispatch received here from Lopgstreet
and G. L. TONNES asks for all available men
throughout the county at once. By order
OF the Governor the Winons Rifles, accom-.
panied by several citizans, left on special
| train at p. m for Greenwood, from which
place they viii go to She'll Mound to aid in
suppressing the trouble"
There is q good deal of anxiety over the
news Of the threatened race war 10 the New
River Valley, Fayette cnuaty, w. Va. The
trouble seems to have had its origin on Fri
day evening. when a negro went into the
store of Beary, Cooper Il Co., at Echo, and
brandishing club threatened to do up"
the entire force of employees. All efforts to
pscify him were futile, and one of the clerks,
after receiving a bad blow from his club,
drew a revolver and shot the negro killing
him instantly.