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.

xcursion train loaded with colored peo-
lie arrived at Gouldsboro from Baton |
Rouge. A large number of colored peo- |
lie were at the depot waiting for it. As
he 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
succession, one of which struck a white
nan named William Miller. Then the
became general, some four or
1--WE hundred shots being fred inside of
ffteen minutes. This account Of the
affair is given by the police force OF
Gretna.
A 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 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 a 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 edifice 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.
LATER.-To the list of casualties il
added tonight the name of Mary Carroll
colored, who was painfully wounded
The stories of the row and it's origin diffel
very widely. The negroes say that be
fore the arrival of the train there was q
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
mems version of the affair, of
course, is entirely different. They state
that there were only some half dozen
concerned, and that the shooting was
commenced by the negroes before the
train had stopped. Two shots we're fred
anu Iffon W flIlann 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
affray 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 She'll Mound, LIE
Flore county, Miss, and conflict be.
tween whites and blacks was expected
Help was called for, as the negroes out.
hbCA Oa UiiO WhltOb OLA W Ou0s n VOL
unteer company of about forty men was
raised here in an hour or two and left onthe
2:15 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 @. L. Townes asks us to
send all the available men through the
county at once. By order OF the Gov
ernor, the Winona Rifles, accompanied
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 PicGyune's Greenwood special
says: There has been for the last month
q 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
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 very loud and
manner. Last night the
Sheriff received information from Sunny
side, fifteen miles above Shell Mound.
that there were 500 armed men who
we're massed in Johnsonfield, near there,
and help was needed. He wired
he Governor the situation and ASKED
'or troops, which was RESPONDED
% by Governor Lowry in person, bring
ng with him five companies of militia.
Governor Lowry has sent two Companies
70 Sunnyside to report to the Sheriff, who
vent up there this morning to see if he
;ould do anything with the negroes. The
Iteamboat running between here and
has just come in, bringing |
number OF women and children. There |
lave been several reports from the |
Gene of the trouble this evening, one { t |
which was that the negroes had left the |
'icinity of Sunnyside, breaking up into
mall bands of twenty or thirty, and |
eemed to be sulky and mad.
NEGRO UPRISING IN WEST VIRGINIA.
PrrTsBURG, Pa, September I.-AI
pecial from Wheeling, w. Va. saws
here is good deal of anxiety over the
ews of a threatened race war at the
lew River valley, Fayette county. In
nj ION fNNr La Il l.