Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-02
RACE TROUBLES IN THE SOUTH.
Serious Apprehension Said to be Felt In
Several Localities.

1t 10 said that the negroes are arming and
massing near Shell Mound, Miss, and that .
conflict between the whites and blacks is ex-
pected. A volunteer company has gone to the
scene. Gov Lowry was advised by the sheriff
yesterday that 500 armed negroes had col
lscted and that all efforts to disband them we're
futile, and to send aid at once. The governor
left on special tram, accompanied by the Cap
ital Light Guards. Companies from Grenada,
winona and Durant are also there. The
trouble is said to have been started by Oliver
Cromwell, an ex-convict and a desperate negro
TROUBLE IN WEST VIRGINIA
There is a great deal Of anxiety over the news
of the threatened race war in the New river
valley, Fayette county, W. Va. Information
meager, but of such nature as to give rise to
fears that a serious breach of the peace will
occur. The trouble seems to have had its
origin Friday evening, when a negro went into
branishing a club, threatened to do up" the
entire force of employees. All efforts to pacify
him were futile, and one of the clerks, after re-
ceiving a bad blow from the club drew a re-
volver and shot the negro, killing him instantly.
Echo is the center of a considerable colored
population, and Saturday night information
was received at Charleston that mob OF ne
groes had collected on New river and that a
concerted onslaught on the whites was in con-
temptation. Orders were also received by the
Charleston hardware stores for all the Win
chester rifles available, and considerable ship
ment of these was made. Citizens of Charles
ton were also gathering arms. and it was appre-
hended the military would be ordered out.
NEGRO EXCURSION FIRED on.
As large excursion party arrived at Colds
boro, La, yesterday morning the excursionists
were fired upon and soon the shooting became
general, some four or five hundred shots being
fired in less than fifteen minutes. A panic en-
sued, women and children screaming and
running in every direction. The list of casual
ties is as follows: VIM. Miller, white. shot in
face, serious; Ed. Levy, colored, shot through
arm; wife of Elder Fleming, colored, shot
through shoulder, serious; Mary Carroll. col
ored, shot through foot: Ben. Watkins, shot in
hands and breast. serious.
The New Orleans Times Democrat has state
ments of both whites and blacks. from which
the following summary is made: There were
about five hundred negroes on the train. about
half of the number being women and children.
About the time the train stopped two or three
shots were tired, causing panic among the ex-
curslonlsts. who threw themselves from the
train pellmell and ran in all directions under q
brisk tusilade from rifles. shotguns and revolv-
ers. The scene was lighted up by flames from
a burning house on the levee, aud by this light
the negroes made their way rapidly as pos
most OF them hed. The light also enabled the
firing party to take good aim. The stories as
to the origin of the trouble vary widely. The
negroes say that large body OF armed men
were awaiting the arrival of the train. and that
while the negroes were disembarking these men,
thoutprovocation,b began firing into the crowd.
The whites say that only half dozen white
men took part in the affray and that the first
shots were fired by the negroes before the
train had stopped. They assert that two shots
were fired from the train at a white boy named
BurmeiSter jus. as the train coming in.
Then William Miller was shot in the face by a
negro who was getting off the train. Then
Mile IS brother. policeman, attempted to ar
rest the negro who fired the shot. At this the
negroes began firing upon the whites, the
shooting became general, and the excursionists
fed panic-stricken from the spot.
The whites in and around Goudsboro seem
disInclned to talk, and, except Officer Miller
and young man named Ustes, they seem to
know nothing of the origin OF the trouble.