The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-03-15
RIOTING.
Blood Flows on the Levee at
New Orleans.
Armed Mobs Shoot Down the Ne
gro Place Takers.
Some unif = Dozen Coiorcl Mon Dead
and a Number Wounded The Negroes
Fired Upon by White, While Iheyu1
Were On Their Way TO Work

NEW ORLEANS, March Il At 2
o'clocl, fucsday morning, as the Negro
laboreys Of the Cromwell line and also
OF tbs Harrison line we're reporting
for work on the leycc at the head Of
st. Peter street, they were fired upon
by a crowd OF about 20 white men
Several Of the Negroes were killed
and many Of them seriously wounded.
There is great excitement The attack
was so sudden and unexpected that
the Negroes made no resistance and
the uninjurod lied from the scene,
leaving their dead and wounded com
panions lying on the levec
The names Of the killed and injured
have not yet been learned, and identi-
iication will be difficult Tor the reason
that many Of the Negroes who have
taken the strikers places have been
imported from other cities recently.
A number Of smaller riots took
place along the shipping district early
Tuesday morning gang Of strikers
attacked number Of Negroes who
had congrcRatdd in the vicinity Of tho
French market and several Of the
blacks were badly wounded,
At the head Of First street the mob
chased a gang Of Ncgroes and fired a
vollcy of bullets after the fleeing fg.
ures One Mexican roustabont was
/ shot aud fatally wounded number
Negroes received slight flesh wounds.
hll sorts ~ rumors arc ahoat about
the number of killed and injured hui
up TO noon it was believed the list OF
killed would not exceed six Negroes,
and the woundfi would not go above
I2 or l3
The lower portion Of the city, where
the railroad yardsand steamboat docks
are located, is covered with den, {
fog and il is feared that the strikers
will take advantage Of this and con.
tinuc their assaults upon the men who
are taking their places as scrcwmen.
A committee Of citizens tuesday
morning waited upon Mayor Fitzpat
rick and asked him to cali out every
available policeman in the city ThC
moy,ri is invcstiroting the trouble. I'm
lis fcarca Mat me- trouble has CON,
bev,nd tho control Of the police aut
the state militia may be called ont.
All morning the white strikers wer,
patrolr the lcvce in large gangs anC
threatc lg all kinds Of injury to tn,
imported NEGRO laborers
kmong those known TO be iniure,
are Jamr. a Bape Nyhite, purser o
tho sto,msbin Engineer. Robt Brnol
(wbitei a lonssboreunn. william Wi
liams lcotnreH a screwman: Fran
Wiphthall leoloredl driver. and I
Mellord Icoiorcn n scale hand
Purser g1ne who was standing o
the wharf when the riot BEGAN wa
shot IN the head three times and in IN
arm oncc Nellord was also shot 1
the head Both mon are believed to h
dnncrr5psly injured.
O'Clock this morning as twelv
br Fftrcn Nerrocs we're nbopt IN ro I
work al thc head of Phillips stree.
about tbrcc miles above the plac
where the first riot occurred. a crow
Of white men snd5cnIv ran ont on IN
wharf from an adiaccnt street an
oncncd fire an them All of N
Negrocs .pcrredcd in making the
eseapc cyccnt ono man Of the name
Crawford who was killed After ii
shootinr the white men quickly ra