Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
A RACE war SOUTH.
Startling News from Washington
Parish In Louisiana
WHITES and BLACKS GIVE BATTLE.


New Orleans, Oct. 2s.-The Picay.
une's Amite City special says: Three
white men and II negroes killed in .
race riot is the startling and terrible
news received yesterday from Wash
ington parish. Your correspondent
has just conversed with q man from
Franklinton who confirms this infor.
nation, but he knows nothing Of
what has happened since Sunday
evening. The first news Of the race
riot was brought here yesterday BY
Cornelius Nixon, who, with bis mother,
left for Franklinton yesterday morn
ing. He stated that white men rode
into Franklinton at two o'clock yes.
terday morning, seeking help, saying
that the negroes were up in arms
and threatening to exterminate the
whites.
The scene of the trouble is at Or
near Balltown, where q negro was
burned last week for crlminally as
saulting . white woman. This was
not the cause, however, Of the muir.
ders Sunday in which three white
men and II negroes were killed and
several wounded.
Mr.. Nixon saw and talked with
many men from the scene and they
said more and worse trouble was ex.
pected, as armed men were focking
, to the scene and it was reported that
the blacks were equally active in pre-.
pairing for battle.
P. B. Carter arrived from Frank.
linton little after dark last night
and told your correspondent that the
situation was terrible and that more
trouble was feared. He said that Joe
Seals and Charles Elliott and another
man, whose name he did not know,
were dead and E. II. Thompson, a
+, white man, was wounded and that II
negroes were dead. His information
was up to Sunday night and was OBJ
tanned from persons who went to
Franklinton for help. At three
o'clock yesterday morning a posse
left Franklinton for the scene Of bat.
tie, in charge of Sheriff Simmons,
and from all over the country armed
men were hurrying to the same place.
Mr.. Carter said that 500 men were
probably under arms yesterday in
Washington parish.
The trouble occurred at negro
camp meeting and the origin, as near
as can be ascertained, was as follows;
Greer Lott, a negro, was running a
refreshment stand and constable,
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
assistance. He returned with several
white men, when the negro Lott
rushed out and fred point blank in
to the crowd, killing Joe Seals and
Charles Elliott. The whites returned
the fire and killed Lott. Then ne
gro preacher named Connolly rushed
out of o house with a gun in hand,
attempting to shoot and was killed.
His daughter was also killed, though
. It is said she was accidentally shot.
In the shooting which followed an
other white man was killed and E.
H. Thompson wounded and seven or
, eight negroes killed. The shooting
,, had no direct connection with the
y burning of the negro Morris in that
section last week, but it is undoubted'
" a sequel to that tragic event
Since that time it is reported that
the negroes have been holding night
y meetings preparing to attack the
' whites.
Negroes Take to the Woods.
New Orleans, Oct. ga dispatcf
from Columbia, Miss, says six ne
. groes were shot to death at Live Oal
= church, about three miles from Ball
T. town, La, that one white man wal
> killed and another fatally wounded
i and that two negro women and
child were burned almost to cinder
in Lofts restaurant, which had beef
- fred by the whites to dislodge Lot
y and others who were firing at tn
whites from behind the counters
The negroes have taken to the wood
and no further trouble is apprehend
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