Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-03-22
SIX BLACKS SLAIN
Shower Of Bullets Fired b. NJ IN
on Louisiana Levee.
UNDER COVER OF TIE FOG
Troops Ready to March, but I..rrnatiop,.
Complications May Arise AID
Upset the state.

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 tie ships
loading at the docks, The attack was
made at points several miles apart lust
before the arrival Of the police and
as result there are half dozen
corpses and dozen or so wounded men.
The police saw the attack but no ar
rests were 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
wen 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 share of the work
under an agreement made for secret
cuts and violated the agreement in or
Ter to obtain more work and gradually
.rowd 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 scrcwmen Quit work on the lines
still loyal to them. stating they would
not work until the whole affair was
Enlightened. 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 and deal with
the ships direct. The ships III haste
accepted the Offer but the agents stood
by the stevedores. The agents offered
10 pay the screwmen their wages and
place stevedores over them as superin-
tendents, but this the screwmen de-
clined. Then the stevedores began i'm
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 \. Bane, white, purser on the
steamship Engineer. shot in the heat
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 anC
head; may recover.
Lunis Cast, colored, employe of su
gar refinery. shot In the hip.
Billy Williams, colored, shot in tn,
leg.
Frank Lighthall. colored, shot in tn,
leg.
Robert Brooks, white, longshoreman
shot in the leg.
Two negroes whose names are un
known jumped into the river and IT /.
supposed We're drowned.
BEGAN ALMOST WITH DAWN.
H;ioting and bloodshed began thi,
morning at and resulted in the killini
of two men and the wholesale discharg,
of firearms in two sections of the city
The morning was very foggy.
The police were massed in the Sixth
precinct police station all night, unde
command of Acting Chief of Police JOIN
Journe. Everything was quiet, whei
there came message that a dozen mel
had been killed in front of jackson
square and "A terrible riot was in prog
ress. The police We're at once hustled
into patrol wagons and hurried away
They had barely gone when Sergean
Richard Walsh. in command of tn
| precinct, heard a volley from the direc
! ton of the levee, in front of the sta
ton. He rushed to the scene and anon,
| the freight cars between Philip AM
| First streets he found a crowd of ne
| groes surrounding a wounded compan
| on The mans head was covered witt
| blood. The negro was taken to the sta
! ton. Those about declared he was cross
| ing the levee and found a mob of 25
| men armed with Winchesters and othe
guns. Port Warden McCubben said tina
| the rioters were from down town an,
| did not belong to the screWmen.
| At $50 everything up town was com
| paratively quiet with few weapons il
| sight All negroes had left the leve
and the mob deposited their shotgun
and rifles in barrooms,
ASKED FOR TROOPS.
| The president of the Maritime Elk
| change telegraphed Governor Foster 70
troops The grand jury is investigatin
the riots. The police have made no ar
rests. and Judge Noise has instructe
the grand jury to indict the city officer
who have been deIelict. The Washing
ton artillery has been ordered to repor
| for duty. az
The police, up TO o'clock tonight, ma
| made but two arrests in connection wit
the riot. Robert Brooks and Mike Fit2
patrick, both white screw men. wer
taken into custody early in the evening
, Both We're wounded.
Mr.. Balm, purser OF the British steam
ship Engineer, who was shot. is hein
cared for on board his vessel. Iii
| wounds are pronounced dangerous
The captain of the Engineers threaten
to make the shooting nm internattont
affair.