Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-09-13
TWENTY-FIVE NEGROES KILLED
THE RIOT IN LEFLORE COUNTY.

M HlOI IN LLJIOHL COCA J d.
POLITICS HAD NOTHING TO DO
WITH IT, BUT TT was CAUSED
BY DISTURBANCES ON ACCOUNT
FLABOR-TwO THOUSAND LA.
BORERs GONE FROM THE FIELD.
NEW YORK, September Ga
dispatch 10 the HerGld from Green.
wood. Miss, says: Twenty-Five
negroes and possibly more, who
were working on cotton planta.
ton on Monday morning, rest be.
meath the sod in LeflOre county
10 night riddled 10y bullets. They
were killed for resisting arrest
One was killed on Monday or Tues.
day and the others yesterday and
today.
The leaders OF the lnsurrectiOn,
J os. Allen and Ollyer CrOm well
have both escaped, though il is
tho ught that Allen was captured
this evening. Cromwell was caught
IN J acksOn yesterday. but for some
reason was turned loose. He IL an
ex convict, having served ten years
in the penltenliary for burglary.
lie was leader in the Clinton.
Miss. rIo- in 1870, ia which a
number of white people were mas.
sacred.
This trouble did not originate
from any political difference, but
- the outcome Of labor troubles
CrOm well was the organizer OF ne
gro alliance lodges in this county.
He behaved badly on Shell Mound
on the 3Otn Of August and was
ordered 20 leave. Ills alliance
friends replied that they were a
thousand strong and were ready
for fight.
Tie naughty message alarmed
the whites aud their families were
sent TO this place for protection.
Then the war commenced, The
militia came on SUNDAY, but were
sent back. Hundreds Of white
citizens began to arrive on Sunday
armed with Winchester rifles. The
negroes were routed aud routed
and fled to the woods.
They we're surrounded. Several
were killed and others were wound
ed. This was on Tuesday. On
Wednesday a black skin could
scarcely be found in the nOthern
part OF Lehore county.
Major. General Leddell, who led
in the killing Of the thirteen blacks
in Carrollton in 1856, has command
of the white regulators. He is
cool and brave. State Senator
Southworth is bis Lieutenant. Both
are young meu and are at Minter
City in command of squad. They
captured fifty guns to dag. The
pOssessor, 4. ID. Bird, was spared,
because he had just lost his wife
and had seven little children.
The negroes are in a frlghtful
state of fear, and two have gone
crazy over the excitement. The
1he negroes have threatened to
burn every house in Lefore county,
and every honse is being closely
guarded. ID. D. James store and
house were burned on Tuesday
night because he refused 10 sell
the negroes cartridges. His loss
was $4,000.
More than two thousand labor.
ers quit the fields and the cotton
and corn needs gathering badly,
NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. c.
a letter from LehOre county says |
armed negroes are now scattered |
in sqads in the swamps and are be- !
ing pursued by five hundred armed |
white men. Negroes beng refus-
ed ammunition at JamlsOn's store,
on the Tallahassee river, burned .
the building. y posse pursued and
about forty negroes were killed.
Many negroes were killed at the
other end Of the parish. Gov. Low
~ is severely denounced by the
white people Of LeAore tor not /
sending Cromwell back to them.
They charge that Col. Jonas Ham
ilton, lessee Of the state peniten.
tlary, used his influence TO save
CrOmweii who Is an ex-convict.