Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-04-21
TBLEGRAPHIC.
THE VOTERS ARMED.
Trouble On Account OF bn Attempt
10 Keep Negroes from Voting,
4 DESPERATE CONFLICT LIKELY


OpELoUsAs, In, April 20.-At o
g. m. 900 armed men o. both larlles
ute on the move aud desperate con.
iiCt is expected at any time. over
lJD regulators armod with wluchusters
nave surrounded the town, and their
ostensiblc object Ia the capture OF thu
courthouse. Ga the vote OF the Ope-
l0usas ward dUponda their success or
defeat n the parish, and they are con.
centfating their efforts here. They
realize that II a full vote Ia polled the
combine will win.
The report came to this place early
t1Iay that the regulators were assem-
ulug vt tho BelioviUw bridge, three
milca south Of town, Al 10 O'Clock at.
rivals from the country reported that
200 men on horseback anu armed with
Wincheators, tholguns anu pistols were
gathered there aud were planning su
invasion Of the town. Upon the re-
poft OF this news, the combined people.
o. auti'rcgulators began TO assemble
around the courthouse square, armed
to the teeth anu prepared to resist the
Invasion. Tho sheriff was In town
when the news first arrived, but he dId
not attempt 20 20 aud dlshhud tue
aimed t0dY Of men, District Judge
W. &. Peftault rode out 60 the camp Df
the regulators and euctRv0red by Iof.
euhsiln O. get them 20 disbnud, but hlF
efforts awaited nothing.
THIS AFTERNOON DiOmedpB Dur.O,
lrsdlug planter G.. NJ. III uHOu,
clerk Of the district court, anu five or
ok friends were Ia 'front.' VI Dufi0's
house.
III was under a tree with my chill.
druu ucar mc,n said Mr. Dufio. "Su4.
Gluly Thirty regulators, led by one
Reed, passed. my house. They stopped
luhind a ulump Ii trees anu / went out
ia the Held 10 see what they were do.
ing. When near thom they fired six
thois NJ mo. My irisuts came to my
asHiH,auco and wo returned ten W
twelve thots. We then LAID down anu
the regulators fred fully huy snots at
us, shooting my horse iu two plncop.
Hall u tnUm ran hway; tho Othu'a re-
mtintd belinda group aud appeared
O. be- helping some one on n horse.
CONT Know whether We hurt any uf
them Or not. We sent word TO town
Tor endorsements, but when the boys
came the regulators Srtu out OF sight"
Mr. Thompson cOrtobOraIod Nit. Du.
riu's story.
II II Tumored that two regulators
were shot aud one killed. Impossible
10 verify FumOts.
LAT il Al Il
thHt one regulator, Alice Reed, was
killed and another murtally wounded
iu the sklrmisn NJ Duu0's.
A. 1880 tonight the town IA quiet.
AHMED squads are on duty at every
road entering the place anu the c8ufl-
house r. - perfect arsenal. The waah-
iugtOn, Louisiana boys, tlitiy Httoug,
who came 70 Eight with the Citiztus
ngaiust the regulators have hurried
home. a coulter brings the nBwB that
Wellington IN being surrounded aud
tlat the regulators arc creating COZ.
HieruatiOn among the Inhabitants OF
Bpllairo cave.
All day long there has not been
Flalu or parish UfliCgT, not even con.
stable, g. town. IL 10 impossible Tor
town TO be IN a more martial state. IL
% believed now that the regulators Will
not come into town until morning.
There are 100 armed men waiting Tor
them. Tho district attorney has sent
ia word that his regulators viii enter
town tomorrow, ana that he has twenty
Winchestefs nj his back TO say "n0 ne
gro shall vote"
The Gntl'regulstOB declare they
viii hold the court house n itB hall
runs with blood. Tho regulators have
moved back n mile or two Ia tbs
country from King Bridge.
Tue trouble IA Opelgusae grew out
OF m effort On the part otwhile Demo.
Crais 10 prevent registration OF the
negroes. A military company wBs
suut there and tAu negroes all regis
tered. They are m tho majority, aud
tue movement Il the regulators or