Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-13

New Orleans, La, March 1.-THE
thick fog in the early morning was the
veil behind which desperate white
levee laborers gathered, and which
thev penetrated with winchester ri
fle balls aimed at the cOlored non
union men at work at the ships.
The attack was made at points sew
eral miles apart, just before the ar
rival of the police, and as result,
there are a half dozen corpses and
dozen or so wounded men. The police
saw the attack, but no arrests followed,
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 to-day
the business men are denouncing both;
the militia is in readiness to move; an
aDpeal TO the Federal government has
virtually been made, and even the for
eign consuls have decided to join III the
move for
PEACE AT ANY PRICE.
The causes which led to the troubles
have been of long standing, and grew
out of the attempt of snip agents and
others interested to reduce rates. The
white screwmen claim that that the
colored men, who were given a share
of the work under an agreement, made
secret cuts and violated the agreement
i'm order to obtain more work, and grad
ually crowded the white men of.
The white associations then severed
ties with the blacks and refused to
work with them or for the men who
employed them. The white longshore-
men Joined the screwmen in this.
Since then the stamship lines have
been gradually going over to the ne
grOes.
Lately the white screwmen quit
work on lines still loyal to them, stat
ing they would not work until the
whole affair was Strengthened out.
Several more lines then took on negro
labor from necessity. The whites fin
ally determined 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 and
offered to pay more than the screw
men 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 superintendents but the
screwmen again declined. Then the
stevedores began importing colored
screwmen from Galveston and the
whites. growing desperate, broke loose
in riots.
The dead are: VIM. Campbell, col
ored screwman, shot at Phillip street;
Jules Calice, shoemaker, shot in front
of Lyons's clothing store; unknown,
shot in vicinity of Cromwell line; un-
known negro, in same vicinity, not yet
identified: Leonard Mallard, colored,
scaleman, shot over right eye.
The injured are: Jas. a. Bane, white,
purser Steamship Engineer, shot
i'm the head twice, arm once, danger
GUS: Henry Brown, colored, screwman,
shot five times, both arms and both
legs. will recover; Tim Hesten, col
ored. coal wheeler, shot seven times
in both legs and thighs, and may re-
cover: Lunis Cast, cOlOred, emplOye su-
car refinery, shot in hip, will recover;
Rillv Williams. cOlOred. screwman,
shot in leg. will recover; Frank Light
hall colored. driver for cement firm,
shot in leg, dangerous; Robert Brooks,
white. longshoreman, shot with Win
chester in right leg below knee. Two
negroes. names unknown, jumped into
the river and it is believed were
drowned.
The British Consul stated that Cap
tain Woods. of the British steamship
Engineer. had called upon him in the
morning, shortly after the purser, Balm,
was shot. and made statement of the
fact OF the shooting. The Consul de-
clined to make any statement as TO