The Red Cloud chief., 1889-09-06
RACE
Serious Outbreaks In Louisiana
and Aississippi
Underestimate Shooting ut Gouldsb0rGb
La, with Several Persons Wounded
The Negro Alliance In
Mississippi.

Tho Negro Alliance In
Mississippi.
INV ORLEANS, Sept ?-Yesterday
morning about one O'Clock. at Gretna. ire
broke out in an old frame building occu.
pied BY two girls named LuDks. The fire
department responded and the Gre was
extinguished Some time afterwaId an
alarm Wa again sounded and . crowd
gathered.
Between two and three O'Clock an ex.
cursion train. composed entirely OF colored
people. arrived at the GouldsbOro depot
from Baton Rouge. A large number Of
colOred men and women were near the
depot waiting for The train, which
was due at eleven O'Clock. As 1t
drew in one Of the ex, urs Onists attempted
to get Oh and fell TO the ground. Some
unknown person said: "LnOk at tn
black -" whsn tho negro 0rsw . pistol
and fired -four or five shots in rapid sue.
c~essiou, one Of which struck William
Miller, white. . brother OF N Of the
Gretna police, in the nose and lodged it.
seh in the back of the neck.
Then the shooting became general. some
four or five hundred shots being fired In
less than fifteen minute& A terrible
panic occurred, women and children rum
ming in all directions shouting and scream.
ing, leaving dishes. baskets, hats shoes.
etc.
John Rainy, the superintendent Of the
Algiers & Gretna street railroad, who
was about two squares away with four
horse carr waiting for the excursion,
stated thu: the panic caused BY the rapid
discharge Of flre.arms was dreadful He
did not know what caused tho trouble
but the ears on their way down to Algiers
were fred into and one OF tho bullets
passed through . dash board. For . time
he and his drivers were in imminent
danger Of losing their liveA
About 4:3O yesterday morning the light
of Q fire was seen near the line between
was turned in and the Alziers fire depart
mont FASTENED to the scene and found .
large number Of men armed with mu<kets,
etc, and a negro church on fire. There
was no water at hand and the church was
entirely consumed.
Just after the fire a colored man named
Rem Watkins aged seventy-five years
was shot in the breast and slightly
WOuuOSU ny uukuOWu p0ItI0Ss
The list Of casualties in b riot are -
follows: William Miller. white. shot in
the face and seriously wounded: Ell Levy.
colored, shot through tho forearm; the
wife Of Elder Fleming. co'ored. shot
through the shoulder and very seriously
hurt; Mary Carroll, oolored. shot through
the instep and painfully wounded; Ben
Watkins, shot in the right hand and
seriously wounded.
FIJI MISSISSIPPI TROUBLES.
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 1.-The Picsyune's
Greenwood. Miss. special says: "Tbere
has been for the last month q negro by
the name Of Cromwell who has been Or
ganizing, as it was thought. alliances in
that part of the delta. On Wednesday Of
last week a number Of negroes belonging
to the alliance demanded that some one
beside Cromwell be placed al the head
of the alliance movement as they
claim he was an e~x-convict and they
were afraid to trust him. This &C.
CURED at Shell Mound. ten miles above
here on the T~allahatchie river. A
majority Of the negroes alliance voted
in favor of Cromwell and retained him in
his position. The mex day Cromwell re.
ceive6 a letter signed Unanimously with
cross bones. skeletons. etc. ordering him
to quit his work and leave the country.
giving him ten days He showed the
letter TO the negroes and the same evening
the whites at She'll Mound received q
warning letter from parties (negroes) who
signed themselves Three thousand armed
men, who said that they proposed to
stand by Cromwell and hat il any efforts
were made to disturb him thai they would
kill. burn and destroy Shell Mound.
About seventy-fivs armed negroes
into town and talked in a very
loud and threatening manner. The gen.
eral belief is that Cromwell wrote the first
letter himself and had it addressed and
TO him at Shell Mound, with the
object Of arraying the negroes against
the whites, SO the eRecs would be to make
the negro alliance, that were opposed to
him. come over and Join forces with the
other negroes; Tut il such was his object u
failed, as they are still holding ont against
him. Last night our sheriff received in
from Sunny Side. fifteen
miles above She'll Mound, thai
there were 500 negroes who
were massed in tho johnson
near there and help was needed. He
wired the Governor tho situation and
asked for troops. which was responded
to promptly by Governor Lowry in per-
son. bringing with him five companies Of
Governor Lowry has sent two
companies to Sunny Side to report to the
who went up there this
morning to see IL he could do any thing
the negroes The steamboat running
between here and Sharkey has just
in. bringing . number Of
women and children. Governor
Lowry cautions the people to be
Tree from all violence and not to violate
he law in any particular. but to assist
county authorities to enforceit. There
have been several reports from the scene
II trouble this evening, one Of which
that the negroes had left the vicinity
II Sunny file, breaking up in small
bands Of twenty or thirty, and seem ed to
DO sulky and mad"
Bought by Dan lamont
NEW YoRK. Sept 1.-The franchises
racks etc, of the Broadway surface rail.