The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-13
RI0TING AND MURDER
DiSgFaC8ful D mlnStraliOnS Of Violence
in NV Orleans
PEOPLE KILLED
MANY
Negroes Attacked and Shot Down
Like Wild Beasts in the streets
of the City by Cruel and
CowardIy Rascals.

| NEW OhLEANS. Lt.s TIC
thick fog this morning was the veil be-
hind which desperate white levee labor
| ers gathered, and which they penetrated
with Winchester rifles, all aimed at COL
| ored non-union workmen on the ships
| loading at the docks. Tho attack was
| made at points several miles apart just
before the arrival of the police and as n
result there are half dozen corpses and
a dozen or wounded men. Tue police
| saw the attack, but no arrests were made,
| they claiming they we're too few to cope
with the unexpected outbreak. The day
before the massacre all was quiet and the
governor saw no grounds for interference,
but to-day the business men are denounc-
ing both sides. The militia is in readI-
ness TO move; an appeal to the federal
government has been made, and even the
foreign consuls have decided to join in
the move for peace at any price.
THE CAUSE OF IT.
The causes which led TO the trouble
have boen of long standing and grew out
of the attempt of ship agents and others
interested to reduce rates. The white
men claimed that The colored men. who
were given a share of the work under an
agreement, made secret cuts and violated
the agreement in order to obtain N )ro
work and gradually crowd the white men
off. The white association then sew
cred 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 out. Several more lines
then took on negro laborers from neces-
sity. The white union finally de-
termined to retaliate upon the stevedores
by Offering to reduce the rates and deal
with the 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 superintendents.
but this the screwmen declined.
Then the stevedores began importing
colored screwmen from Galveston and the
whites, growing desperate, broke loose in
riots.
THE DEAD.
The dead are: William Campbell. COL
| ored. shot al Phillips street; Jules Calico
! Carrade, shoemaker, shot in from OF Ly-
on's clothing store; unknown man, shot
in the vicinity of the Cromwell line; ne
gro, in the same vicinity, not yet identi-
| fed; Leonard Mallard, colored, shot over
the right eye.
| THE INJURED.
The injured are: James A. Baine, white
| purser of the steamship Engineer, shot
in the head twice and arm once, danger
GUS; Henry Brown, oored, shot five
times, both arms and both legs, Will re-
cover; Lem Perslen, colored, coal
wheeler, shot seven times, both
legs, thigh and head, may re-
| cover: Lunis Cast, coored, employe
sugar refinery. shot in hip; Billy Williams.
coiored, shot in leg Frank Lighthall, col
ored, shot in leg; Robert Brooks, white.
longshoreman, shot in leg; two negroes,
names unknown, jumped into river and it
| is supposed were drowned.
RESUMED EARLY.
New ORLEANS, March 12.-Rioting was
resumed on the levee at an early h, ur this
morning. At the head of Josephine street
one negro was killed by white screwmen.
| In the vicinity of the French market sew
eral negroes were wounded. Al O'Clock
| about 20 screwmen came to the Harrison
| Cromwell line and fired upon the negroes
as they came along. Twelve negroes were
killed.
IN THE HANDS OF MOB.
The levee, from Louisiana avenue to
Mandevllle street, is in the hands of an
armed mob. The police are powerless.
The white men are completely in control,
and have declared that no negro shall APP
| pear upon the levee front. All work on
the levee is practically at a standstill.
RIoting and bloodshed began this morn
| ing al o'clock, and resulted in the kill
ing of two men and the wholesale dis
| charge of firearms in two sections OF tho
city. Tho morning was very foggy.
AWAITING TROUBLE.
Tho police were massed in the Sixth
precinct police station all night, under
| the command of Acting Gu eff of Police
John Journe. Everything was quiet when
there came a message that a dozen men
had been killed in front of jackson square
and a terrible riot was in progress. The
police were at once hustled into patrol
wagons and hurried away. They had
| barely gone when Sergeant II chard
Walsh. in command of the precinct, heard
a volley from the direction OF the levee IN
front of the station. He rushed to the
scene.
SHOT IN THE MOUTH.
Among the freight cars between Philip
and FIRST streets he 70 md a crowd of ne
groes surrounding a wounded companion.
The mans head was covered with blood.
he was shot IN the mouth. The negro,
whose name was unknown, was taken to
the station. Those about declare that he
/ was crossing the levee AMI found a mob
OF 2jJ men armed with Winchester rifles
and other guns. They marched along the
levee to Eighth street and then back on
ChopiJouias street to Jackson, and at
Washington street they were accostcd by
Sergeant Walsh, who recognized one of
/ the men. Among the leaders was Water
Owens.
TOTE NEGEOE- SHOT.
While this was going on four negroes
had been shot and one Caribbean killed at
the French market. Tue trouble occurred
at the landing OF the Harrison line steam
ships. opposite jackson square. In the