The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-13
Mayor Fitzpatrick Condemned ON All
Sides for His Indifference and
Gross Neglect of Duty.
APPEAL FOR FEDERAL AID
LOCAL AUTHORITIES NOTIFIED TO
EXHAUST STATE RESOURCES.
International Complications Possible
Over the Shooting of an English
man-Cause of the Riots.

NEW OflLfLAINO, N1dICu lzs--1Hc lnlCk
fog in the early morning was the veil be-
hind which desperate white levee laborers
gathered, and which they penetrated with
winchester rifle balls aimed at the colored
the ships. The attack was made at points
several miles apart, just before the arrival
of the police, and, as result there are half
a dozen corpses and dozen or so wounded
men. The dead are:
WILLIAM CAMPBELL. colored. screw
man, shot at Phillips street.
JULES CALrCE CARRABE, shoemaker,
shot dead in front of Lyons clothing store
UNKNOWN MAN, shot in vicinity of
Cromwell line.
UNKNOWN NEGRO, in same vicinity;
not yet identified.
LEONARD MALLARD, colored, scale
man. shot over right eye.
TWO NEGROES, names unknown, shot
and jumped into the river; supposed to be
drowned
The names of those most seriously in
jured follow:
/ JAMES A. BANE, white, purser steam
ship Engineer shot in the head twice. arm
once; dangerous.
HENRY BROWN, colored, screwman,
shot FIVE times, both arms and both legs;
will recover.
TIM PERSTEN, colored, coal wheeler,
shot seven times, both legs and thigh and
head; may recover.
LUNIS CAST. colored, employe sugar re-
fnery. shot in hip; will recover.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, colored. screw
man, shot in leg; will recover.
FRANK LIGHTHALL. colored, driver for
cement firm, shot in leg; dangerous.
ROBERT BROOKS, white, 'longshoreman
shot with Winchester in right leg below
knee.
The police saw the riots but no arrests
followed, they claiming that 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 readi-
ness to move; an appeal to the federal gov
ernment has virtually been made, and even
the foreign consuls have decided to join in
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 ship agents and others interest
ed to reduce rates The white screwmen
claim that the colored men, who were given
made secret cuts and violated the agree
ment in order to obtain more work, and
gradually crowd the white men off. The
white associations then severed all ties with
the blacks and refused to work with them
or for the who employed 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 serewmen quit work on
the lines still loyal to them, stating that
was Strengthened out Several more lines
then took on negro laborers from necessity
The white men finally determined to retail
late the stevedoresf by offering to reduce
rates and deal with the ships direct Some
ships 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 n
their wages and place the stevedores over
them superintendents, hut the screwmen
again declined. Then the stevedores began
importing colored screwmen from Calves
ton, and the whites. growing desperate,
broke loose in riots.
Calmly reviewing the happening of the
morning, everything would seem to indi-
cate the attack to have been a prearranged
affair. 1t is rumored. and there is every
reason to believe the runlor to be correct.
that a secret meeting was held last night
and the bloody affair of this morning care
fully mapped out. The details seem to be
that the crowd of rioters who were sent up
town were residents of the lower district
while those who were sent down town were
among those who live up town. The guns
and rifles which were used by the down
town men who went UP town seem TO have
been deposited in the various saloons along
the levee. The men assembled somewhere
in the vicinity Of Nun street and In the
dense fog proceeded up the 1cvee 1t seemed
to be generally understood that the guns
used down town were taken to some place
In the vicinity of the sugar refneries IL .