Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-12
IN A MOB'S HANDS
Police Unable to Preserve Life and
Order at New Orleans.
SEVERAL NEGRO LABORERS SHOT DOWN
CoId-Blooded Murder on the levee
ront.
FEAR OF MORE TROUBLE

Ieyee front from Louisiana avenue 10 Man
deville street is in the hands of an armed
mob. The police with their scattered num-
bers pcwerless and unable to cope with
the armed workirgmen.
Four men have been killed., while sew
eral others have been wounded as result
of attacks which have been made upon the
negroes in consequence of the dispute over
rates OF wages. The white men are COM
pletely IN control of things and have de-
ciared that no negro shall appear upon the
levee front.
AS a result of this all work on the levee
is practically at stardstili, while not a
negro can be seen anywhere among the
shipping.
The work of rioting and bloodshed began
this morning at Z o'clock and resulted in
the killing of two men and a wholesale dis
charge of firearms in two different sec
tionS of the city.
The police were massed in the sixth pre-
cnct police station and had remained there
all night under command of Acting Chief
of Police John Journee. Everything was
reported quiet and they were hopeful that
everything would remain so, when there
came a message that a dozen men had
been killed in front of the Jackson Square
and that terrible riot in progress.
The police were at once hustled into the
patrol wagons, which were at the stations,
and were hurried away to the scene of the
trouble.
They had barely left when Sergt. Richard
Walsh. in command of the precinct, heard
a voiley of shots from the direction of the
levee IN front of the station.
The morning was exceptionally foggy
and when Serst. Walsh heard the shooting
he rushed to the scene. Among the freight
tIs IDl.;ll.
streets he found crowd of negroes. They
surrounded their wounded companion. The
mans head was covered with blood. He
was shot in the mouth. The negro, who
was unknown, was taken to the station.
Those who were about declare he was
crossing the levee when a mob came along
and fired volley at him, killing him in
stantly.
When the nesro's body was removed the
sergeant and a squad of officers went up
the levee and found a mob of 25O men,
armed with Winchester rifles and other
guns. They marched along the levee up to
Sth street and back to jackson street. and
then dispersed, according to what seemed
prearranged plans.
AT Washington street they were accosted
by Sergt. Walsh, who recognized most of
the men. Among the leaders was man
They were sober and acted with delibera-
ton.
On the levee Port Warden McCubben was
seen. He declared he had been up all night,
and deplored the occurrence. He said all
the men We're from down town and did not
belong to the screwmen.
At $50 o'clock everything uptown was
comparatively quiet, with very few weap-
ons in sight. All negroes had left the levee
and not one could be seen anywhere. The
mob deposited their shotguns and rifles in
the bar rooms in the vicinity.
Firing Near the French Market.
While this was going on the vicinity cf
the French market was in excitement. A
bloody riot had occurred. Four negroes
had been shot and one Caribbean killed
The trouble occurred on the levee at the
landing of Harrison line OF steamships, op-
posite the jackson Square. In the fog
which prevailed mob of 100 armed men
got through the guards of the police and
opened fire on the negroes, who were at
work. They fed in terror, some jumping
into the river. Those who ran across the
levee in the direction of the square were
subjected to a deadly volley. The shots
seemed to come from doorways, windows,
galleries and street. Look where they
would negroes saw pistols and heard the
reports the TevolVers We're discharged
Each man then ran in different direction,
and the poor devils seemed panic stricken
These in the crowd of whites who we're
not armed with revovers picked up Stones
clubs and other improvised weapons and
attacked the crowd of negroes. Even the
most ventureSome of the bia ks could not
stand this, and they fled.
Those seen BY a reporter say that it is
Impossible TO state how many were shot.
They did not see anybody fall. but knew
ti1a NallS and pFa th1r oft fhDir
comrades had been hit.
Later 1t was ascertaired reliable
thority that one negro had been killed out
right and number had been wounded
several fatally. For many minutes the
firing continued on the river front and the
police seemed powerless to make any move
against the murderers, though it is said
that there was rnuch larger force on the
river front than that of yesterday. The
rioters given fun sway, and hey ex-
ercised it without stint. Not until every
negro had fled from the river front did the
white men desist.
Entire Police Force Called Out.
The entire police have been called TO the
levec.
Governor Fowler has been telegraphed
to, and it is reported that the militia have
been ordered to keep themselves in read-
ness.
At this writing most of the mob are
drinking, and the police fear more trouble.
Acting Chief of Police John Journee is on
duty. The entire front is in a tumult.
Another riot may be expected at any mo-
nent The bodies OF the four killed at the
Jackson Square are at the third precinct
station, while the bodies of the others are
at the sixth precinct police station.
The time for the shooting seems to have
been fixed for the hour just preceding the
beginning of the working day. AS usual
thing the stevedoreS and 'longslloremen
begin working at o'clock, and il was lust
before this hour that the firing began. II
seems 10 nave been totally unexpected. for
the negroes were on the levce in large
numbers. The poor blacks evidently be
hcvei that there was sufficient force on
the river front to protect them, and that
proteC tion would he accorded them.
Later.-lt is now positively known that
four negroes are dead. OF these three are
unknown. The fourth is the Carib5ee. At
the hospital are eight wounded. or this
number two dying. They are Henry
Brown, shot five times in the breast, and
Joseph Mallard. shot through the fore
head with Winchester rifle.
Mr.. Bain. the purser of the British
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