The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

New ORLEANS. March 13.-The thick
fog in the early morning was the veil
behind which desperate white levee
IahorerS gathered and which they pene
trated with Winchester rifle balls aimed
at the cOlorad non-UniOn men at work
al the ships
The attack was made at points sew
eraI miles apart. just before the arrival
Of the police, and as result there are
half a dozen cOrpses and a dozen or 81
wounded men. The police saw the at
tack, but no arrests followed, they
claiming they We're too few 10 cope
with the unexpected outbreak. The
dav- before the mayor said all was quiet
and the governor saw no grounds for
interference. but now the business men
are deuouucing both The militia Is in
readiness TO move. An appeal to the
federal government has virtually been
made and even the foreign consuls have
decided 10 lCiu in the move for peace at
any price
The cause which led to the troubles
have been Of long standing, and grew
ont of the attempt of ship agents and
others interested to reduce rates. The
men who We're given a share of the
work under dn agreement, made secret
cuts and violated the agreement IN or
der 10 obtain mOIe work, and gradually
crowd the white men out. The white as
sOciatiOns then severed all ties with the
blacks ana refused 10 work with them,
or for the men who employed them.
The white longshOremen Joined the
screwmeu in this.
Since then the steamship lines have
been gradually going over 70 the ne
groeS. Lately the white screwmen quit
work on the lines still loyal TO them,
stating that they would not work until
the whole affair was Strengthened out
Several more lines then took on negro
labor from necessity. The whites finally
determined TO retaliate on the steve
dOres by Offering to reduce rates and
deal with the ships direct. Ships III
haste accepted the offer, but the agents
stood by the stevedOres. The latter
offered 10 pay more than the screwmen
asked, but the screwmen refused to deal
with them The agents offered to pay
the sCrewmen their wages and place the
SteyedOTeS over them aS Superlntend-
ents, but the sCrewmen again declined
Then the StevedOTeS began importing
coIored screwmen from Galveston, and
the whites growing desperate, broke
loose in riots.
The dead are: William Campbell
colored screwman. shot on Phillip
street; Jules Calice Carrabe. shoemaker,
shot in front of Lyons clothing store,
unknown. shot in vicinity of Cromwell
Line: unknown negro. III same vicinity
not vet identified; Leonard Mallard,
culored, scalemau, shot over the right
eye
The injured are: James A Bane
white pur>er, steamship engineer, shot
III tine head twice, arm once. dangerous;
Henry Brown. COlOred, >crewman shot
five times, both arms and both legs, VIII
recover: Tim Per-ten, colOred coal
wheeler shot seven times. both legs and
thigh and may recover; Lunis Cast, col
Ore9. employer sugar refinery, shot III
hIp, viii II, over, Billy Williams, col
or-d. screwman. shot IN leg, Will re
cover Frank Lighthall. colored, driver
for cement firm. shot III leg, dangerous
Robert Brooks. white lGngshOreman
si.Ot with Winchester III right leg below
the knee
Two ne groeS. names unknown. jumped
into the river and 1t Is believed were
drowned