The Portland daily press., 1889-09-02
AN INSULT ANSWERED BY A BULLET
Causes a Fierce Battle Around a
Train Of coIored People.
cretna, La, the Scene Of Deadly
trouble Between the Races.
mississippi Troops Called Out to
Help Regulate the DarkIes.

NEW ORLEANS, September 1.--Between
two and three O'Clock, an excursion train.
composed entirely Of colored people, arrived
at Gouldsboro depot from Baton Rouge. A
large number of colored men and women
were near the depot waiting for the train. AS
the train reached the station an excursionist
attempted to get off and fell to the ground.
Some unknown person made personal re.
mark and the negro drew pistol and fred
four or five shots in rapid succession, one of
which struck white man In the nose and
lodged in the back OF his neck. The shoot
Ing became general and some four or FIVE hun
dred shots were fired in less than 10 minutes.
A terrible panic occurred, women and chill
dren running in all directions, shouting and
arm ana a cuioreu woman fatally Shot In the
back. John Rainy, superintendent Of the
Algiers and Gretna horse railroad, was about
two squares away with cars waiting for the
excursion. He stated the panic was dread
full. The cars on their way down to Algiers
were fired into and one bullet passed through
the dashboard.
At about half.past four o'clock this
morning a fire alarm was sounded from
near the line between Algiers and Jeffer-
Soh "AaoAs duu Vic AlklcIo ukO uCpSItLutut
found a large number of men around with
muskets, etc., and negro church on fire.
NO water was at hand and the church was
entirely consumed. Just after the fire, a
colored man aged "a, was shot and slightly
wounded by some unknown parties.
Several negroes belonging to the excursion
party state that when the train was leaving
the GouldsDoro depot, it was fired upon by
men secreted along the railroad track. The
place where the shooting occurred is not
thickly settled, and it is very difficult to To-
cate a single person who witnessed the be-
ginning OF the shooting, outside the police
force of Gretna.
A Grenada, Miss, special says: "a tele-
gram was received here this morning saying
the negroes are massing near the she'll
mound In Letiore county, Miss. A conflict
between the whites and blacks was expected
6heip was called, for the negroes outnum-
bered the whites six to one A volunteer
company of about 40 men left on the 12.15
train for the scene of trouble A company
od cavalry VIII leaye here tonight. A des-
tsc Ra.cn received @ asks for al the available men
the governor, the Wininia Rifles, aecompa-
MED by several citizens, left on special
train at 2 pm. today for the shell mound"
JACKSON, Miss, September l. No reliable
news has been received from Greenwood.
the nearest telegraphic office to Winter
City, the threatened race riot The trouble
is said to have been started by Oliver Crom-
well an ex-c0nvict, and desperate negro.
But one telegraph line runs to Greenwood
and that is down.
A Louisiana Outrage.
NEW ORLEANS, August 31.-A sensation
was created at the Republican campaign
committees headquarters yesterday, by the
appearance of Robert Armstrong, colored.
one OF the United States supervisors for As
SUMPTION parish for the conversational alac
tion to be held there next Tuesday. Arm
strong says he was waylaid by eight white
men at his house Wednesday night, Seriously
whipped and ordered to leave the parish un-
til after the election. He stripped in the
committee room and Congressman Coleman
amined the marks on his back, and counted
twenty.