The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-03-15
R9FBRSRIIL NEGROES.
Serious Race War on the New
Orleans Levy.
WHITES USED WIHCHESTERS.
Six of the Blacks Killed and a
Dozen Wounded.
THE POLICE WERE POWERLESS
Riots Grew Out of the Screw
mems Strike.

The Authorities We're Unable to Cope
With the Armed wOrkingmen and
Rioters Were Given Fuil Sway
Militia Ready to Move.
NEW ORLEANS, March 18.-The thick
fog early Tuesday morning was the veil
behind which desperate white leyes
laborers gathered. and which they pen
etrated with Winchester rife balls.
Rimed at the colored nonunion workmsn
on the ships loading at the docks. Tbs
attack was made at points several miles
apart just before the arrival Of the DO
lice and as result there are half a dozen
corpses and dozen or so wounded men.
The police saw the attack. but no ar.
rests were made, they claiming they
were too few to cope with the unex.
pected outbreak. The day before the
mayor said all was quiet and the gov.
ernor saw no grounds for interference,
but now the business men are denounc.
ing both. The militia is in readiness to
move; an appeal to the federal govern.
men5 has virtually bssn 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. aud grew out of
the attempt Of ship agents and others
interested to reduce rates. The white
screwmen claim that the oolored men
who were given share OF the work un.
der an agreement, made secret cuts and
violated the agreement in order to OBJ.
tain mora work and gradually crowd
the white men off.
steyedOFes Reduce Rates.
The white associations then severed
all ties with the blacks and refused to
work with them or for the men who
employed them. The white Iongshore-
men 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 necessity. The white union final
" determined to retaliat9 upon 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 pay more than the
screWmen asked, but the screwmen re.
fused to deal with them. The agents
offered to pay the screwmen their wages
and place the steyedores over them as
superintendent, but the scr5wmen again
declined, Then the stsvodor5s began i'm.
porting oolored scsewmeu from Calves.
ton, and the whites growing desperate
broke loose in riots. The dead are:
Wa. CAMPBELL, colored, screwman,
shot at Phillips street.
JULES CARLICE CARBABE, shoemaker.
shot in front of Lyons cloth hing store.
UNKNOWN, shot in vicinity OF Cromwell
line.
NEeRo in same vicinity, not yet ldeuti.
fed
LEONARD MALLARD, colored scaleman,
shot over right eye.
The Injured
James A. Bane, white. pursor steamship
Engineer, shot in the head twice, arm
once, dangerous,
Henry Brown, colored, screwman, shot
i've times, both arms and both legs, will
recover.
Tim Persten, coIorod, coal wheeler shot
seven times, both legs, thigh aud head,
may recover.
Lunis Cast, colerod, employee sugar re.
hnery, shot in hip, will recover.
Billy Williams, oOlOred, sore wman, shot
In leg, will recover.
Frank Lighthall Colored, shot in leg,
dangerous.
Robert Brooks, white, longshoreman,
shop in right leg bslow knee.
Two negroes, names unknown, jumped
into the river and it is supposed were
drowned,
Two Arrests blade.
The police have made but two arrests
in connection with the riot, Nike Fitz-
patrick and Robert Brooks, both white
sorewmeu, were taken into custody
early IN the morning. Both men were
wounded, Brooks in the groin and Fitz-
patrick in the wrist, and are said to have
been shot by their comrades during the
proniscuous firing. The prisoners were
charged with melting to riot and were
Femanded to Jail 10 await a hearing.
Calmly reviewing the happenings Of
the morning, everything would seem 10 /
indicate the attack to be a pTearranged
affair. It IS rumered, and there is every
reason TO believe the rusner correct. that
= secret meeting was held Mondav night /
and the affair carefully mapped out.
The details seam to be that the
crowd OF rioters who were sent
uptown were residents of the lower
districts. while those who were ssnt
downtown wera those who live uptown. +
The guns and rifles which we're used hv
the downtown men who went uptown
sesn to have bsea deposited in the var
Ions saloons along the leyes. The men
assembled sons whers III the vicinity Of
Nun stfset, and in q denss fog pro.
eeed up the 1eYee It seemed to bs gen.
orally understood that the guns used by +
t..e men who went. downtown weFe
ken TO some plaes IN the vicinity of
he sugar Ie5neries in wagon ana
tssa were ssefeted Qath such Tins az
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