Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-02
A REIGN OF TERROR.
BloOdshed in Many Parts OF
the Country.
RACE WARS IN THE SOUTH.
Bloody Riot in Louisiana - Negro
Uprisings in Mississippi and
West Virginia.

EXCURSION traln lOau6u WIN COlOr6Q poO-
pie arrived at Gouldsboro from Baton
Rouge. A large number of colored peo-
pie were at the depot waiting for it. AS
The train neared the depot one of the ex-
in jumping of, fell. Some
unknown person shouted, "Look at the
black k----." The negro drew a
pistol and fred four or five shots in rapid
one of which struck a white
man named William Miller. Then the
became general, some four or
five hundred shots being fred inside of
fifteen minutes. This account of the |
affair is given by the police force OF
Gretna.
TERRIBLE PANIC |
Ensued, women and children running in |
all directions shouting and screaming.
Ed Levy (colored), living in Algiers,
was shot in the left arm, and a colored
woman, named Fleming, was fatally
shot.
Some of the passengers who were in
terviewed today stated that when the
train was nearing Gouldsboro depot it
was fired on by men secreted along the
line of the railroad, and that as soon as
the train stopped general stampede
took place. 1t is very difficult to locate
q single person who witnessed the begin
ming of the shooting, outside of the po-
lice OF GretDa.
Ben Watkins (colored), residing in
Gouldsboro, was shot while lying in bed
at his home after the general affray, by
some unknown person who fred through
the window. He was seriously wounded.
NEGRO CHURCH BURNED.
About o'clock this morning light
was seen in the sky between Algiers and
Jefferson parishes. The Algiers fire de-
partment went to the scene and found a
large number of men armed with mus
kets and negro church on fire. There
was no help at hand and the edi6ce was
destroyed.
Algiers, Freetown, Gouldsboro and
Gretna are small towns close together,
situated directly across the river, and
virtually suburbs of New Orleans.
CONFLICTING STORIES.
LArER.-To the list of casualties is
added tonight the name of Mary Carroll,
ccSo,lored, who was painfully wounded
The stories of the row and its origin differ
NOly WioOlys 41O RIO06 soy tAdu U0-
fore the arrival of the train there was a
large force Of armed white men in the
vicinity of the depot, who opened fire
on the colored people while the excur-
slonists were getting off. The white
course, is entirely different. They state
concerned, and that the shooting was
M onnoH hu ho hofarn thn
train had stopped. Two shots were fred
anu rnen " fiIiafn MIiler was shot IN the
face by negro in getting off the train.
A police officer, brother of the wounded
man, attempted to arrest the shooter,
when the negroes opened fire and the
afray became general. The whites
about Gouldsboro declined to talk about
the riot.
RACE WAR IN MISSISSIPPI.
The Times Democrats Grenada, Miss.
special says: A telegram was received
here this morning saying that negroes
were massirg men near Shell Mound, LIE
Flore county, Miss, and conflict be-
tween whites and blacks was expected.
Help WAS called for, as the negroes out
numbered the whites six to one. A vol
unteer company of about forty men was
raised here in an hour or two and left onthe
IL :15 train for the scene OF the trouble,
under the command of j. G. Longstreet.
A company Of cavalry will leave here to.
night. A dispatch received from j. G.
Longstreet and G. L. Townes asks us to
send all the available men through the
county at once. By order of the Gov
ernor, the Winona Rifles, accom- panied
by several citizens, left on special train
at 2 pm. today for Green wood, from
which place they will go to Shell Mound
to aid in suppressing the trouble.
The Picayune's Greenwood special
says: There has been for the last month
negro by the name of Cromwell who
has been organizing, as it was thought,
alliances in this part of the Delta. Wed.
nesday of this week number of negroes
belonging to the alliance movement,
withdrew, as they claimed he was an ex-
convict. A majority of the Negroes AL.
lance voted in favor of Cromwell. The
next day Cromwell received letter Or
dering him to leave the country. He
showed the letter to the negroes and the
same evening the whites at Shell Mound
received warning letter from parties of
negroes, who signed themselves
"THREE THOUSAND ARMED MEN"
Who said that they proposed to stand by
Cromwell, and that if any efforts were
made to disturb him they would kill,
burn and destroy Shell Mound. About
seventy.fve armed negroes came into
town and talked in a very loud and |
threatening manner. Last night the
Sheriff received information from SUNNY
side, fifteen miles above Shell Mound,
that there were 500 armed men who
were massed in Johnsonfield, near there,
and help was needed. He wired
The Governor the situation and asked
tor troops, which was responded
10 by Governor Lowry in person, bring.
ing with him five companies of militia
Governor Lowry has sent two companies
10 Sunnyside to report to the Sheriff. who
went up there this morning to see if he
could do anything with the negroes. The
steamboat running between here and
Sharkey has just come in, bringing a
lumber OF women and children. There
nave been several reports from the
'cene of the trouble this evening, one cfl
which was that the negroes had left the
vicinity of Sunnyside, breaking I'D into
mall bands of twenty or thirty, and
eemed to be sulky and mad.
NEGRO UPRISING IN WEST VIRGINIA.
PITTsBURG, Pa, September I.-AIl
pecial from Wheeling, w. Va, saws:
here is good deal Of anxiety over the
ews of threatened race war at the
Jew River valley, Fayette county. In.
or m ation from the erapo ~ ~ tl--I 4