The Penn's Grove record., 1901-11-01
MANY S%aLLEH RACE RIOT
Negroes and Whites Clash at a Louisl.
ana Camp Meeting.
THE MILITIA ORDERED OUT

Posse Wont to Raid n Saloon Near Ball
town, La, and Were Fired Upon-The
Shots Returned and the Building Set
on F-ire-Governcrs of Mississippi and
Louisiana Take Action.
New Orleans, La. - The bloodiest
race war the South has known since
the early eighties began at Balltown,
Washington Parish, La. The HOSTILE
ties were opened by the negroes, and
in the first engagement three whites
and eleven negroes We're killed. The
conflict ragged OF the following day,
and the death roll was increased by
the killing Of twenty more negroes.
The trouble began at a negro camp
meeting in progress at Live Oak
Church, three miles from Balltown.
There Il pitched battle took place be-
tween Il posse Of white men, gathered
by the constable Of the district to in
yestigate the report that one Crea Lott
was o~perai.ng a restaurant at the
church without n license.
Int bdttlG Nao btShA IN htSACNS
themselves. Lott, the neg vas
suspected Of violating tie IlW. aw
the posse coming from q window in
his store. He opened fire on the CON
stable and his men. and killed two of
the posse at the first shot Joe Seals
and Charles Ellsworth.
Lott had time to fte hut once, for
his fire YVES returned and ht Aenk to
the ground, riddlSd VITA iale, IS. A
negro preacher, Sonnoily m9glame'
rushed out of tn 3AdinS orlxX a
double-barreled shSa.a. NOT ne ne
levelled at the wnf1es. BSn3nd ne
could pull the trigger he was become
The battle had by this timeR les We're
general. A number Of negiqsept vol
concealed in Lot placc ana 4Ader the
leying at a body o. naen w er white
leadership of an officer. AnothS hi was
man was killed. e. II. ThornpjNd the
also wounded. The whites 4
building. 1unning
The negroes, as they camJK. were
out with all kinds of wea4Ha com
shot down. The whites \Ayinr ne
plete victory, and the the end
slEss w III, 81, aE pa e eSSa
burned to ASH ~ nd shot or
en- negroes, O II
burned to dj 70 TUH3in Lofts
Three wol Them were
were crema Street, 5n. One of
charred beyt - h her. The
the women Iy Yes. too.
child perishd T Inued on the
The confli 4" for w. w.
next day. ELECnved the fol
Heard, Of - .iuar From Column
lowing mes G Tx salem cod :
bia, Miss; -S2arish
- fes and blacks. Srid
between NH + via P%oplarville, Miss.
o at on IN. SIMMONS. Sheriff"
I'll Wing the message Govern
Upon reeel lred General Jorn Glynn,
or Heard " him Of the race war and
,Jr. notifyln to order out a company,
directing hi for immediate service. A
of ffty men er the Governor received
few hours | ON Deputy Sheriff Bran
n telegram On County, Miss, to the
for. Of Mari was just from the scene
effect that h and that quiet had been
of the troub5l that troops would not be
necf, NV. Longino, of Mississippi, re-
,fnor h Est notification of the riot
his fl Lor Heard. Later he re
~ Cover esram firm the Sheriff of
'oXed a tel hty asking permission to
Marion Cod |, Columbia Guards to the
Z dispatch Nh Sheriff was authorized TO
scene. The I
do set Balltown that W1lllam
1t vas I'd gro, was burned at the
Morris, a Ter day for almost mur-
stake the j E'e of a s~torekeeper. Since
dering the be camp meeting at Live
this affair md the negroes discussed
Oak began. were ready for anything.
1t until thew Il probability the fate of
1t was intTrh intiamed them to the
Nor Is wlItr k In ambushing and open
step sdey dloo he constable's posse. I
ing / ! onYy line, however, had nothing
Mor.as,s ~ the organization of the
to 10 wltl h was summoned legally
posse. viii preston of the violation of
for the SIM |was reported at the Live
law which