The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-02
LOUISIANA RACE WAR.
,,Nn1AR1sM FOLLOWS a VOL
'NO LEY OF BULLETS.

.,..,,o, versions of the Affair
o,-sn by the Whites and Blacks
oa,,,dsboro the Scene of the Trouble
po,icenan and Two Negroes
-Eo,,nded During the Fusilade.
x.u ORLEANS, La, Sept. 1.-Between 2
.cIock this afternoon, an excursion
sna SDi. = o,r,nosed entirely of colored people
-:-.o5 TO- Of the Gouldsboro depot from Baton
NJ. a. A large number of colored men
a ~ women we're near the depot waiting
sA1 = train. which was due at II o'clock.
A. tXa1srain neared the depot, one of the
ar,mrS oists attempted to get off and fell
.a tbaSIvound. Some unknown person
80 Sss01rsoual remark, when the negro
drow I, r3 and fired four or five shots in
1D;d 'iSti sion. one of which struck
,ti+o roI ,lcee' ned William Miller, brother
of one Of 'tba q etna police, in the nose and
1900 itssIr IN tae back of his neck. Then
.Sa Shooting becane general, some 400 or
sG9 shots being fred in less than fifteen
Yof,,,as The above account of the trouble
is from the police OF Gretna.
A TERRIBLE PANIC.
terrible panic occurred, women and
children running in all directions shouting
and screaming Ed Levy, a colored man
living in Algiers, was shot IN the left arm,
ard s colored woman named Fleming was
oiso fatally shot in the back. John Rainey,
ssmnerintendent of the Algiers and
GTetna horse railroad, was about
two squares away with two cars
waiting for the excursion. He stated that
tbe manic caused by the rapid discharge of
FIRE arms was dreadful He did not know
what caused the trouble, but the cars on
their way down to Algiers were fired into.
Supt. Ralney stated that for time he aud
his drivers were in imminent danger of
losing their lives.
A NEGRO CHURCH FIRED.
About 4:30 o'clock this morning large
reflection was seen near the line between
Algiers and jefferson parishes. An alarm
Of ire was turned in. The Algiers fire de-
partlnent started to the scene, and found a
large number Of men armed with muskets
etc and d negro church on fire. There was
no water at hand, and the church was en-
tirely consumed. just after the fire a
colored man named Rem Watkins, aged IS,
was shot in the breast and slightly wounded
by some unknown parties.
STORY OF THE NEGROES.
Several negroes who claimed to have
formed part Of the excursion party, being
interviewed. state that when the train was
nearing the Gouldsboro depot, it was fred
or by men who were secreted along the line
of the railroad track, and when the shoot
ing commenced the train was
yet in motion, and as soon as
it stopped a general stampede took
place. The place where the shooting
occurred Is not thickly settled, and all those
living in close proximity of the depot, when
iuterviad said they heard the shots, but do
not know who did the shooting or the origin
Of the trouble. 1t is very difficult to locate
single person who witnessed the begin
ming Of the shooting outside of the police
force at Gretna.
THE OTHER CASUALTIES.
The rest Of the casualties in the riot are
as follows:
William Miller (white); shot in the face
and seriously wounded.
Ed Levy icolored); shot through the left
forearm.
The wife of Elder Fleming; shot through
tne shoulder and very seriously hurt.
Mary carroll (colored) shot through the
ln5tep and pal fully wounded.
ben Watkins; shot in both hands and
breast and seriously wounded.
. Inc stories of the blacks and whites as to
Ile origin OF the trouble differ widely. The
negroes say large body of armed white
men were awaiting the trains
arrival, and that about ten minutes
aLIer II stopped they without provocatipn.
tpeled nre on the negroes who were going
Io,f w tne street cars The whites say that only
oonoo oall dozen white men were
goncerned in the affair and
mat the negroes, before the tram
came to halt, fired two shots At a white
boy named Burmeister. William Mia
was then shot by a negro. AS the train
zane .4. 70 stop Miller's brother, policeman,
ss.;empIed to arrest the murderer, when the
WILLIE Wig began and became general. The
W. %ltSes toT' about Gouldsboro seem disinclined