The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-03-21
SIX BLACKS SLAIN
Shower Of Bullets Fired by Mer
on a Louisiana Levee.
UNDER COVER OF TIE FOG
Troops Ready 20 March, but Internal onnI
Complications May Arise aud
upset the State.

New Orleans, March l2.-The thick
fog this morning was the veil behind
which desperate white levee laborers
gathered and which they penetrated
with Winchester rifles, all aimed at col
ored non-union workmen on the ships
loading at the docks. The attack was
made at points several miles apart just
before the arrival of the police and
as result there are half dozen
corpses and dozen or so wounded men.
The police saw the attack but no ar
rests were made, they claiming that
they were to few to cope with the unex-
pected outbreak.
The day before the massacre all was
quiet and the governor saw no grounds
for interference, but today the business
men are denouncing both. The militia
Is In readiness to move. an appeal to the
federal government has been made and
even foreign consuls have decided to
join in the move for peace at any price
The causes which led to the trouble
are of long standing and grew out of
the attempt of ship agents and others
Interested to reduce the rates. The
white screwmen claim that the colored
men who were given share of the work
under an agreement made for secret
cuts and violated the agreement in or
der to obtain more work and gradually
crowd the white men off The white
association then severed all ties with
the blacks and refused to work with
them. The white longshoremen joined
the screwmen in this. Since then the
steamship lines have been gradually
going over to the negroes. Lately the
white screwmen quit work on the lines
still loyal to Them stating they would
not work until the whole affair was
Strengthened Several more lines then
took on negro laborers from necessity
The white union finally determined to
retaliate upon the stevedores by offer
ing to reduce the rates and deal with
the ships direct. The ships in haste
accepted the offer, but the agents stood
by the stevedores The agents offered
to pay the screwmen their wages and
place stevedores over them as superin-
tendents, but this the screwmen de-
clined. Then the stevedores began i'm
porting colored screwmen from Calves
ton and the whites, growing desperate,
broke loose in riots.
DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The dead are: William Campbell, col
ored, shot at Philips street.
julie Calice Carrabe, shoemaker, shot
in front of Lyons clothing store.
An unknown man, shot in the vicin-
lty Of the Cromwell Line.
A negro, shot in the same vicinity,
not yet identified.
Leonard Mallard, colored. shot over
the right eye.
The injured are:
James A. Bane, white, purser on the
steamship Engineer, shot in the head
twice, arm once, dangerously.
Henry Brown colored, shot five times,
in both arms and both legs; will re-
cover.
Lem Perslen, colored, coal wheeler,
shot seven times in both legs, thigh and
head; may recover.
Lunis Cast, colored employe of a su-
gar refinery. shot In the hip.
Billy Williams, colored, shot in the.
leg.
Frank Lighthall, colored shot in the
leg
Robert Brooks, white, longshoreman,
shot in the leg.
Two negroes whose names are un-
known jumped into the river and 1t is
supposed were drowned.
BEGAN ALMOST WITH DAWN.
Rioting and bloodshed began this
morning at and resulted in the killing
Of two men and the wholesale discharge
of firearms in two sections Of the city.
The morning was very foggy.
The police were massed in the Sixth
precinct police station all night, under
command of Acting Chief of Police John
Journe. Everything was quiet, when
there came a message that a dozen men
had been killed in front of Jackson
square and terrible riot was in prog
ress. The police were at once hustled
into patrol wagons and hurried away.
They had barely gone when Sergeant
Richard Walsh. in command Of the
precinct, heard volley from the direc-
ton of the levee, in front of the sta
tion. He rushed to the scene and among
the freight cars between Philip and
First streets he found a crowd of ne
groes surrounding wounded compan-
ion. The mans head was covered with
blood. The negro was taken to the sta
uOl. those ABOUT declared ne was cross
ing the levee and found a mob of $50
men armed with Winchesters and other
guns. Port Warden McCubben said that
the rioters were from down town and
did not belong TO the screwmen.
At $3.50 everything up town was com
paratively quiet with few weapons In
sight All negroes had left the levee
and the mob deposited their shotguns
and rifles in barrooms.
ASKED FOR TROOPS.
The president Of the Maritime Ex-
change telegraphed Governor Foster for
troops. The grand jury is investigating
the riots The police have made no ar
rests, and Judge Noise has instructed
the grand jury TO indict the city officers
who have been derelict. The Washing.
ton artillery has been ordered 10 report
for duty.
The police, up to o'clock tonight, had
made but two arrests in connection with
the riot. Robert Brooks and Mike Fltz-
patrick, both white screw men, were
taken into custody early in the evening
Both We're wounded.
Mr.. Balm. purser of the British steam
ship Engineer. who was shot, Is being
cared for on board his vessel. His
wounds are pronounced dangerous
The captain Of the Engineer threatens