Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-03-15
WHITE VS.. BLACK
Half a Dozen Dead az q Re-
suit OF the Race Riot at
N 55 13sst New Orleans.
n DOZEN OTHERS WOUNDED,
Attack on, the Negroes Due
n to Long Standing Labor
Troubles.

to Long otanOInB AdOOE
J Troubles.
NEW ORLEANS, March 13.-The thick
fog in the early morning was the veil
behind which desperate white levee
laborers gathered, and which they pene'
trated with Winchester rife balls aimed
at the colored non-union men at work
on the ships. The attack was made at
points several miles apart, just before
the arrival of the police, and, as re-
suit there are half dozen corpses and a
dozen or 80 wounded men. The police
saw the attack, but no arrests were
made, they claiming they were too few
to cope with the unexpected outbreak
The day before the mayor said all was
quiet and the governor saw no grounds
for interference, but now the business
men are
Den0uncjng These Oflcials,
the militia is in readiness to move, an
appeal to the federal government has
virtually been made and even the for
eign consuls have decided to join in the
move for peace at any price. The causes
which have led to the trouble have been
of long standing and grew out OF the
attempts Of ship agents and others in
terested to reduce wages. The white
screwmen claim that the colored men,
who were given share Of the work I'M
der an agreement, made secret cuts and
violated the agreement in order to OBJ
tain more work and gradually crowded
the white men off. The white associa'
tions then severed all ties with the
backs and refused to work with them
or Tor the men who employed them.
The white 'longshoremen joined the
screwmen in this. Since then the steam
ship lines have been gradually
Going Over to the Negroes.
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. Sew.
ern more lines then took on negroes
from necessity. The whites finally de.
termined to retaliate on the stevedores
by offering to reduce rates and deal
with the ships direct. 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
screwmen their wages and place the
stevedores over them as superinten-
dents, but the screwmen again de-
clined. Then the stevedores began i'm
porting colored screwmen from Gal
weston, and the whites, growing desper-
ate, broke loose in riots.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, colored screwman.
JULES CALICE CARRABEE, shoemaker.
UNKNOWN MAN.
UNKNOWN NEGRO.
LEONARD MALIARD, colored scaleman,
shot over right eye.
The In jured.
James A. Bane, purser, steamship En-
gineer; dangerous
Henry Brown, colored screwman, shot
five times.
Tim Persten, colored coal wheeler, shot
seven times.
Lunis Cast, colored, shot in hip.
Billy Williams. colored screwman, shot
in leg.
Frank Lighthall. colored, shot in leg;
dangerous.
Robert Brooks, white 'longshoreman,
shot in right leg.
Two negroes, names unknown.
Jumped into the river and it is believed
were drowned.
Ono Hundred Armed Men.
The trouble occurred on the levee, at
the landing of the Harrison line OF
steamships, opposite 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 fled in terror,
some jumping into the river. Those
who ran across the levee in the direction
OF the square were subjected to deadly
volley. The shots seemed to come from
doorways, windows, galleries and street.
Look where they would the negroes saw
pistols and heard the reports as revolv-
ers were discharged.
Each man then ran in q different d.
rection, and the poor devils seemed
panic stricken.
Those in the crowd of whites who
were not armed with revolvers, picked
up stones, clubs and other improvised
weapons, and attacked the crowd Of
negroes. Even the most venturesome
of the blacks could not stand this and
they fed.
Was Premeditated.
Calmly reviewing the happenings Of
the morning everything would seem to
indicate the attack to be a prearranged
affair. 1t is rumored, and there is every
reason to believe the rumor to be cor
rect, that q secret meeting was held
last night and the bloody affair care
fully mapped out. The men assembled
somewhere in the vicinity of Nun
street and in dense fog proceeded up
the levee. It seems to be generally un-
derstood that the guns used by the men
who went down town were taken to