The daily Caucasian. (Raleigh, N.C.) 1895-1895, 1895-03-13
TERRIFIC RIOT
AND BLOODSHED.
The Fierce Struggle For Existence
at New Orleans eliminates
in Anarchy and Murder.
FIVE MEN ARE KILLED.
Well Laid Plan to Drive Negroes From
Work--Ihe Dissstroa. Resait .f Long
Standing Troubi~--Faaie-str Ne
groes Fleeing In All Di -eetions-

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Standing Troubi~--Panie-striek Ne
groes Fleeing In All Dt -eetions-
Nfw ORLEANS, Isf. March l2-
The thick fog in ths early morning /
was the veil behind which desperate .
white levee laborers gathered, and
which they penetrated with Nlnches- .
ter rifle balls aimed at the colored
non-uniOn men at work on the ships.
The attacks were made at points
several miles apart, just before the
arrival Of the police, and a. "A result. y
there are half Il dozen corpses and Il
dozen wounded men. The police .
saw the attack but no more arrests
followed. They claimed that they
were too few TO cope with the forces
Of the unexpected outbreak. The day
before the mayor had said 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 govern
ment has virtually been made, and
even the foreign Consuls have leci-
ded to Join in the movement for
peace at any price.
The cause which led to the troubles
have been of long standing, and
grew out of the attempt of ship
agents and others interested to. re
duce rates. The white screw men
claim that the colored men who
were given a share of the work under
an agreement, made secret cuts and
violated the agreement in order to
obtain more work, and gradually
CROWD THE WHITE MAN OFF.
The white associations then severed
all ties with the blacks and refused
to work with them, or for the men
who employed them. The white
longshoremen Joined the screwmen
in this. Since then the stea mship
lines have been gradually going
over to the negroes.
Lately the white screwmen qnit
Ws,g1,,. ,,.t t<y. = .se,, tfta.~Athey 7Gld NOT
work until the white trouble was ad-
| iusted. Several more lines then took
on negro labor from necessity. The
whites finally determined to
RETALIATE ON THE sTEVEDoRES
by offering to reduce rates and deal
with the ships direct. The ships IN
haste accepted the offer, but the
agents stood by the stevedores. The
latter offered to pay more than the
screwmen asked, but the screWmen
refused to deal with them. The
agents offered to pay the screwmer
their wages and place the stevedore:
over them as superintendents, bu
the screwmen again declined. Ther
the stevedores began importing col
ored screwmen from Galveston, ant
the whites, growing desperate, brok'
= loose in riot.
The dead are: VIM. Campbell, col
ored, screwman, shot at Phlllil
: street: Jules c. Carrabe, shot L
), front of the Lyons clothing store
J, unknown, shot in vicinity of Crom
we'll Line: unknown negro III same VI
d cinity, not yet Identified; Leonar
Lallard, colored, salesman, shot owe
e right eye. Two negroes. names VI
Il known. Jumped into the river and 1t
! believed were drowned.
: The work of
! RIOTING AND BLOoDSHED
,s hepan this morning at Z o'clock. Aft'
+ 6 o'clock last evening, though the1
ii was intense excitement along the levt
and though many drunken men We
present. there were no deeds of vi
TO Ience.
20 Everything was reported quiet wht
10 there Pame message that a dozen m'
aS had been killed in front of the Jac
,r son Souare. and that terrible ri
,se was in progress. The police were
nS once hustled into the patrol wago
nd which were at the stations and we
al hurried away to the scene % the Sro
es BILE. They had barely LEFT when 5,
m geant Richard Walsh, in command
ch the precinct, heard
he AvOLLEY OF SHOTS
ng from the direction OF the leyee IN fro
ID Of the station. He rushed to the sce
nd and among the freight cars on the
ar. wee between Phillip and First sire
i've he found a crowd of negroes surrouI
IL ing their wounded companion. WI
his body was removed the sergeant a
a a squad of officers went up the leYee &
lde found a mob of 80 men armed "
'nd Winchester rifles and other guns. r.
ion negroes were shot and one Carrlb'
put killed. The trouble occurred on
ng. leyee at the landing Of Harrison lin
the steamship opposite the Jackson SOU;
Nc In the fog which prevailed,
re- o,., -, 100 ,p>,rD xp~
The
bill got tnrouSh the Suatus Vi 'He POI
of and opened fire on the negroes '
were at work. They fled in ter
,ate some jumping into the river. III
.sad who ran across the levee in the di
cos ton of the Square were subjected
n to deadly volley. The shots SCENE,
,;ch come from dOOrways, windows, gal
was les and the street. Look where I
oh. would. negroes saw pistols and b,
had the reports as the revolvers We're
the charged. Each man then ran in a
.nch ferent direction and the
bills POOR DEVILS SEEMED PANIC sTRIC
Those in the crowd of whites who
MTG not armed with revolvers picked
stones and other weapons and alta
A. the negroes. Even the most ven,
'ne some of the blacks could not stand
tsat Mnt and they fed. Fer many minutes
Ina0 firing continued on the river front
|, .no the police seemed powerless to
an any move against the murderers.
The time for the shooting seem,
ani! have been fixed, for the hour just
aii'S' ceding the beginning of the wol
day. As usual thing the steve
and longshoremen commence VOL