The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-01
LOUISIANA RACE WAR
THREE WHITES AND ELEVEN
NEGROES ARE REPORTED
KILLED.
THREATEN DIFFERENTIATION

Blacks Are Up In Arms and Wors
Trouble Is xpected-Riot Is Startet
by the Attempted Arrest of Negr'
Who Was Running a Lunch Counte
Without a License-PIace the Seem
of Last Weeks Cremation.
New Orleans. Oct. 29.-The Plea
vines Amite City special says:
Three white men and eleven negroes
KILLED Is the startling and terrible
news from Washington parish. You
correspondent has Just converset
with a man from Franklinton and hi
confirms the above information. The
FIRST news Of the race riot was brought
here by Cornelius Nixon. He stated
that white men rode into Franklintor
asking for help, saying that the ne
Groes were up in arms threatening tc
exterminate the whites. The scene
OF the trouble is at or near Balltown
where a negro was burned last week
for criminally assaulting a white
woman. This was not the cause
however, of the murders. Mr.. Nixon
saw and talked with many men from
che scene and they said more and
worse trouble was expected, as armed
men were fiocking to the scene and
was reported the blacks were equally
active in preparing for battle.
P. B. Carter arrived from Franklin
ton and told your correspondent that
the situation was terrible and more
trouble feared. He said that Joe
Seals and Charles Elliott and another
white man whose name he did not
know were dead. and E. w. Thomp,
son, a white man, was wounded, and
that II negroes were dead. His infor-
nation was obtained from people who
came to Franklinton for help. A posse
has left Franklinton for the scene in
charge of Sheriff Simmons and from
all over the country armed men are
hurrying to the same place. Mr.. Car
ter said that there were probably
Five Hundred Men Under Arms
in Washington parish. The trouble
occurred at negro camp meeting and
the origin, as near as can be ascer-
tanned. was as follows:
Greer Lott, negro, was running a
refreshment stand, and a constable, a
white man, name not given, went to
him and asked for his license; he had
none and became impudent. cursed
the constable and defed him. The
constable withdrew and obtained as
ststance. He returned with several
white men when the negro Lott rushed
out and fired point blank into the
crowd, killing Joe Seals and Charles
Elliott. The whites returned the fire
and killed Lott. Then a negro preach
er named Connolly rushed out of 4
house with gun in hand, attempting
to shoot, when he was killed, and his
daughter was killed, it is said, acct
dentally. In the shooting which fol-
lowed another white man was killed
and E. H. Thompson wounded and
seven or eight negroes killed. The
shooting had no direct connection
with the burning of the negro Morris
in that section last week, but it is I'M
doubtedly a sequel to that tragic
event. Since that time it is reported
that the negroes have been holding
nightly meetings preparing to attack
the whites.
Balltown is about 20 miles from
Franklinton, in a sparsely settled Sec
ton. It is isolated and almost entire
" cut off from the outside world.
Frank1inton is 81 miles east of this
place and there are no telegraph or
telephone lines.