Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-08-03
RIOIING At NEW ORLEANS.
Bloody Battles in the Crescent
City.
SEVERAL NEGROES ARE KILLED
Whites Among the Wounded-Lawless
Elements Gain COntrOI-City Under
Martial Law-PoIice accused of Fail
ure to Do Their Duty.


New Orleans was at the mercy OF
armed mobs made up of hoodlums who
assaulted negroes on sight and shot
them down like dogs Thursday night.
The men composing the mobs were
deaf to pity and used pistols and clubs
at every opportunity. That their
work was partially checked was the
result of the prompt action of Gov.
Heard and Mayor Capdevielle. The
dead: Unknown negro, beaten and shot
to death. The fatally wounded: Bap-
tiste Gileal, aged IS years, shot in the
right side Of the thorax; James Mel
son, skull fractured at base and
numerous Commissions and lacerated
scalp wounds; Lewis Taylor, shot in
right arm, left arm, right bullock, and
wounds from clubs on the head; Thorn
as Sanders, stabbed in the side, scalp
wound and pistol shot wound on right
knee; Charles Washington, found in a
box car on Illinois Central tracks cut
to ribbons Nathan Brown, found in
box car on Illinois Central tracks stab
bed through lungs and cut in many
places; Alexander Ruffin, Pullman car
porter, shot in left shoulder, arm
broken and badly beaten about head.
Ruffin is Chicago negro The in
jured: Esther Fields, washerwoman,
several gashes on head and badly
bruised; Lewis Edwards, driver, badly
cut and beaten; George Morris. watch
man, shot in head, leg and back. badly
beaten; may die; Dan Wife, gunshot
wound in left hand; William Arm
strong, gunshot wound left thigh;
badly beaten.
Whites Also Injured.
The foregoing is a list OF the ne
groes, so far as it is possible to secure
the names, who met injury. Probably
a score of darkies have also been as
saulted and are having their wounds
treated at home. During the distul b.
ances the following white men were
accidentally wounded: Frank Shep-
herd, gunshot wound in right arm;
Joseph Deeds, cut on right hand F.
G. Davis, gunshot wound in hip;
Henry Daurin, gunshot wound in left
leg; Louis Lapuyado, gunshot wound
in left leg; Oswald Mcmahon, gunshot
wound in arm; Charles Doyle, gun
shot wound in leg.
Militia in Charge.
Militiamen, artillerymen and cav
airy and 1900 heavily armed citizens
under the command Of Col. Elmer E.
Wood, a Spanish-American war veter-
an, took charge, and attempted to
maintain order, but are unable to en-
tirely control the situation. Scores OF
inoffensive negroes were slain or ter
ribly beaten and additional reports OF
similar outrages are coming in con-
stantly. The police force has been dis
credited and the strong arm of the law
placed in the hands of military Off
Ger. Even Chief of Police Caster has
shared the fate Of his men, for Mayor
Capdevielle has lost confidence in
him. The mob, or mobs, for there were
more than one, were made up OF hood
lums and the toughest element among
the white population of the city.
Nearly All Intoxicated.
1t is estimated that fully 80 per cent
of the members were intoxicated. 1t
was a bowling mob of fiends and could
easily have been controlled by hand
full of determined police, but there
were no determined police to be found.
Dozens of negroes attacked by the
mobs appealed to the bluecoats fer
protection in vain. The sympathies OF
the police were with the mobs and sew
eral instances are reported where the
police actually encouraged the rioters
in their bloody and barbarous work.
Not a single arrest was made by the
police.
The colored desperate Robert
Charles, slayer Of Policemen Day and
Lamb. was smoked out of hiding in
New Orleans Friday night and shot to
pieces, but not until he had killed
three persons, fatally wounded four,
and less seriously wounded sew
eral others Some doubt cast on iden-
tity of desperate. Two other negroes
killed.
Fridays dead:
Gabriel Porteous. sergeant Of police;
John F. Lally, corporal of police;
Andy Van Kurem, keeper of the police
pail: Alfred ]. B. Bloomfield, boy:
Robert Charles, a negro desperado;
unknown negro.
Fatally wounded:
Frank H. Evans, ex-pohceman;
John Banville. citizen; A. S. Leclerc,
citizen; H. II. Bait, citizen. Twenty
thousand people witnessed the rioting.
Attack on Negro Laborers.
The importation of a large number
of negroes into Donivan, Mo-, by the
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