The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-03-16
Shower Of Bullets Fired by Men
on a Louisiana Levee.
UNDER COVER OF The FOG
Troops Ready TO March but international
Complication = ay Arise and
Ups the state,

New Orleans. March 12--The thick
fog this morning was the veil behind
which desperate white levee laborers
gathered and which they penetrated
with Winchester rifles, all aimed at col
ored non-union workmen on the ships
loading at the docks. The attack was
made at points several miles apart just
before the arrival of the police and
as a result there are half dozen
cOrpses and dozen or so wounded men.
The police saw the attack but no ar
rests We're made. they claiming that
they were to few to cope with the uneX-
pected outbreak.
The day before the massacre 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 government has been made and
even foreign consuls have decided to
join in the move for peace at any price.
The causes which led to the trouble
are of long standing and grew out of
the attempt of ship agents and others
interested to reduce the rates. The
white screwmen claim that the colored
men who were given a share of the work
under an agreement made for secret
cuts and violated the agreement in or
der to obtain more work and gradually
crowd the white men off. The white
association then severed all ties with
the blacks and refused to work with
them. The white lOngshoremen joined
the screwmen in this. Since then the
steamship lines have been gradually
going over to the negroes. Lately the
white screwmen quit work on the lines
still loyal to them. stating they would
not work until the whole affair was
Strengthened. Several more lines then
took on negro labOrers from necessity.
The white union finally determined to
retaliate upon the stevedores by offer
ing to reduce the rates aud deal with
che ships direct. The ships in haste
accepted the offer. but the agents stood
by the steVedores. The agents offered
to pay the screwmen their wages and
place stevedOres over them as superin-
tendents, but this the screwmen de-
clined. Then the stevedores began inn
porting colored screwmen from Calves
ton. and the whites, growing desperate,
broke loose in riots.
DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The dead are: William Campbell. col
ored. shot at Philips street.
julie Calico Carrabe. shoemaker, shot
In front of Lyons clothing store.
An unknown man. shot in the vicin-
ity of the Cromwell Line.
A negro, shot in the same vicinity,
not yet identified.
Leonard Mallard, colored. shot over
the right eye.
The injured are:
James A. Bane. white, purser on the
steamship Engineer, shot in the head
twice. arm once, dangerously.
Henry Brown colored. shot five times,
In both arms and both legs; will re-
cover.
Lem Perslen. colored coal wheeler.
shot seven times in both legs, thigh and
head; may recover.
Lunis Cast, colored. emplOye Of a SUI
gar refinery, shot in the hip.
Billy Williams. colored. shot in the
leg.
Frank Lighthall. colored shot in the
leg.
Robert Brooks, white, longshoreman.
shot in the leg.
Two negroes whose names are un-
known jumped into the river and it is
supposed were drowned.