St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-13
Bloody Slaughter Indulged In
6 by the New Orleans
Strikers.
HALF DOZEN NEGROES DEAF
ind Double That Number Is
Wounded in the Storm OF
Bullets.
kcALL ISSUED FOR TROOPS.
The Mayor Denounced for His
Failure to Afford Police
Protection.

NEW ORLEANS, La, March r.
The thick fog in the early morning
was the veil behind which desperate
white levee laborers gathered, and
which they penetrated with VIM
chester rifle balls aimed at the col
ored non-union men at work on the
ships. The attack was made at
points several miles apart just be-
fore the arrival of the police, and .
as a. result there are half a dozen
corpseS and a dozen or so wounded
men. The police saw the attack,
but no arrests followed they claim
ing 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 today the busi-
ness men are denouncing these OIL
cials; the militia is in readiness 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 have;
led to the trouble have been of long
istanding, and grew out of the at
tempts of ship agents and others
! interested to reduce wages. The
white screwmen claim that the col
ored men, who were given share
of the work under an agreement,
made secret cuts and; violated the
1 agreement in order to obtain more
5, work, and gradually crowded the
white men off. The white associa-
tons then severed all ties with the
/, blacks, and refused TO work with
them or for the men who employed
Them. The white longshoremen
Joined the screwmen in this. Since
4 then the steamship lines have been
|lgradually going over to the. negroes.
Lately the white screwmen quit
/ work on the lines still loyal to them,
stating that they would not work
ened out. Several more lines then
took on negroes from necessity. The
whites finally 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. The latter offered to
but the screwmen refused to deal
with them. The agents offered to
| pay the screwmen their wages, and
| place stevedores over them as su-
/ perintendents, but the screwmen
again declined. Then the stavedores
/ began importing colored screwmen
| from Galveston, and the whites.
growing desperate, broke loose in
/ riots.
| THE DEAD.
~ WILLIAM CAMPBELL colored
! screwman, shot at Phillip street
! JULES CALICE CARRABEE, shoe
maker, shot in front of Lyons clothing
1 store.
/ UNKNOWN MAN, shot in vicinity
of Crowell line.
UNKNOWN NEGRO, in same vicin.
ity; not yet identified.
LEONARD MALLARD, colorec
sealeman,' shot over right eye.
The injured: James A. Bane, white
|
the head twice, once in arm, danger.
| Gus; Henry Brown, colored screWman
shot five times, both arms and bott
legs; will recover. Tim Persten, col
! ored coal wheeler, shot seven times
both legs and thigh; may recover
Lunis Cast, colored, employed in sugar
refinery, shot in hip; will recover
Billy Williams, colored screwman, shot
| In leg; will recover. Frank Lighthall
eolored driver for cement firm, shot Ii
leg dangerously. Robert Brooks, white
longshoreman, shot with Winchester
in right leg below knee.
! Two negroes, names unknown
/ jumped into the river, and, it is be.
lieVed, were drowned.
RIOTING AND BLOODSHED
began this morning at 7 o'clock, and
resulted in the killing of two men
and a wholesale discharge of fire
| arms in two different sections of the
! city. After 6 o'clock last evening
though there was intense excitement
along the levee and many drunken
deeds of violnce. The police were
massed in the Seventh precinct sta,
ton, and had remained there al
night. under command of Acting
Chief of Police John Journee. Every.
thing was reported quiet, and they
were hopeful that everything would
remain so, when there came a mess
age that dozen men had beer
killed in front of Jackson square
and that terrible riot was in prog
ress. The police were at once hus
i tied into the patrol wagons which
sI were at the stations, and were hur
| ried away to the scene of the trou
BILE. They had barely left wher
Sergeant Richard Walsh, in com
mand of the precinct, heard a vol
ley of shots from the direction OF
\ the levee in front Of the station Tht
morning was extremely foggy, ant
when Sergeant Walsh heard tn,
shooting he rushed to the scene.
Among the freight cars on tn,
levee. between Phillips and Firs
| streets, he found a crowd of ne
groes. They surrounded thei
wounded companion. The man
dead was covered with blood. HI
! had been shot in the mouth. Th
negro, who was unknown. was takel
to the station. Those who were abou
| declare he was crossing the levee
i when the mob came along and fire
volley into them, killing him in
stantly. When the negro's body wa