The age-herald., 1901-10-30
NEGROES HAVE BECOME QUIET
 AT BALLTOWN \ Thousand Armed Men Quickly Reached Scene
 of the Battle DEAD FILLED THREE GRAVES Many Negroes Have Left the Country, Some Riding and Many Walking.
 Those Left Have Had
 Enough.
DEAD FILLED THREE GRAVES

New Orleans. October 29-A special to the Picayune from Balltown. La, says: "A race war between the blacks and whites started at a negro camp meeting at Duncan's Chapel Sunday afternoon at o'clock that has left a carnival of blood up the Pearl River Valley unequalled in the history of that country.
 "One white man Is dead, another Is now dying with a bullet hole through his stomach and third white man is badly wounded
 Nine negroes were killed in the bloody affray-five men, three women and one small child. A dozen or perhaps more ne- groes escaped to the woods and swamps with wounds that are believed to be cer- tain death in the brush away from care. Many are perforated with lead.
 List of the Dead and Injured.
 "The dead:
 'White-Joseph Seal, son of Willis Seal aged s2, residence at varando. La.
 wounded White-Thomas Elliott, aged 26, fatally wounded, now dying; residence, varando. Edward Thompson
 
 portion of leg; residence. varando.
 Dead. Colored-Rev. Alexander Coner- ly. aged 50, pastor Duncan Chapel; Mary Davis, aged 30 years. his daughter; crear Lott. aged, 46; Julia Peters, his daughter. aged, 4; Mellon Peters, her child, aged, { years; Amy Tony, aged 75. monther-in< law of Crear Lott; Lewis Duncan. ? IS years, son of Helen Duncan, livi Poplarville; Thomas Parker. ageo 4: Kid Beverly, aged IS years, turpentine worker from Georgia.
 No one is able to estimate the number of wounded negroes who escaped the awful carnage behind the church. They scattered to the four winds Some are known to have been shot, but they hays not been found.
 The fierce conflict ragged for half an hour. Those at a distance say the firing sounded like a pitched battle between troops.
 The church meeting was turned into a camp meeting. Negroes came from 2og miles all up and down the valley. Elder Stephen Duncan of New Orleans, for whom the chapel was named, was pres ent
 On last Thursday the meeting opened with several hundred negroes encamped around the church in tents, and in rudely constructed shanties around the place. 1t was to continue one week. There they ate and slept and held services in the chapel
 Burning of Negro.
 One day previous to the camp meeting. Bill Morris, the black fiend, who was burned at the stake near Balltown for an assault on Mrs. J. J. Ball. Public sen timent was at high pitch.
 Under those conditions the negroes gathered at Live Oak. There was trouble over license and Crear Isott's tent be- came the center of contention. He was what they called 8 high-stringer, was a yellow negro, half and half and he was already being watched. Some trouble oc- cured Saturday evening. but no blood shed. Then it came up again Sunday aft ernoon when Constable Boone and a posse rode up to Lott's tent with war rant.
 The surly black came out, and is re- ported to have shouted: By G., one nigger has been burned. but O. d. white man will be the next"
 Wade Walker, one of the constab,e's posse, was struck with Winchester rifle over the head, and then the awful carnage began. The blacks fled from the frail wooden church. for 1t was no pro lection from the rain of lead. Lott re- tired into his tent shooting and fighting. Joe Seal received his death wound. A torrent of lead was sent whizzing through the tent and through the church, while the negroes fled.
 Preacher Conerly was shot in his ward. His daughter fell just inside the house. The other negroes around Lott's place kept up a steady fire of volleys It was death and blood and the shrieks of the wounded and dying on every side.
 nat.f xrr4 T. such terror and bfoodshed. Lotts old mother-in-law, his two daughters and the little boy fell in heap inside the shelter. Sophie Lott saved her life bv concealing herself behind the stove. Then she escaped and the men did not harm her. They were after the desperado and terror, Crear Lott He was Tbarricaded and the next move was to fire the place. which they did. When the fire forced him from under cover, he appeared in the doorway and twenty rifle balls went crashing through him. He fell fin a heap, head foremost on the ground Parker and Beverly, both blacks, fell with him.
 Hospital for Wounded.
 Joseph Seal and Charles Elliott and Edward Thompson, the wounded whites. were carried away to the home of E. P. Sones. about three-quarters of a mile through the pine woods, which was hasti- ly converted into hospital. There Seal died yesterday and was buried this after noon from his home in varando. six miles away, and there. in the Sones' emergency hospital. Elliott now lies dy- ing.
 For twenty-four hours 1t looked like a general uprising to wipe out the black race in Washington Parish. The news spread like wildfire and yesterday over 1000 armed men had reached the scene of the battle. They came for miles and miles, some from as far away as Monti- cello. Sheriff Norman H. Simmons and J. K. Johnson, clerk of the court of the parish, arrived from Franklin yesterday morning and the feeling subsided. | Governor Longino of Mississippi and Governor Heard of Louisiana were noti-