The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
FRIGHTFUL SLAUGHTER
OF BLACKS IN RACE WAR
Nine Negroes Killed and Many Wounded in Battle
With Whites in Louisiana.
Bloody ARRAY Precpated at Camp Meetingone of Attacking
Party Dead and Another Dying.

wooden church, for it was no shelter
from the rain of bullets. Lott retired
into his ten. shooting and fighting. Joe
Seal received his death wound. A tor
rent of lead was sent whizzing through
the tent and through the church as the
negroes fed.
Preacher Connolly was shot while
standing in his yard His daughter
fell just inside the house The other
negroes around Lofts place kept up a
steady rain of bullets 1t was death
and blood, and the shrieks of the
wounded and dying were heard on
every side.
Lofts old mother-in-law. his two
daughters and the little boy fell in a
heap inside the shelter Sophie Lott
saved her life by concealing herself be
hind a stove. There she escaped, and
the men did not harm her. They were
after Crear Lott He was barricaded,
and the next move was to fire th6
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 in a heap head
foremost upon the ground. Parker and
Beverly, both blacks. fell with him.
Slaughter Was Terrible.
Washington parish has never seen
such a slaughter. Joseph Seal and
Charles Elliott and Edward Thomp-
son. the wounded whites. were carried
away to the home of r. Zones, about
three miles through the pine woods,
which was hastily converted into a
hospital There Seal died YESTERDAY
He was buried this evening from his
home in Narando, six miles away In
the Zones emergency hospital Elliott
now lies, dying.
For twenty-four hours it looked like
a general uprising to wipe out the
black race in Washington parish The
ike rr~f1HHrn nd raar--
day over 1000 armed men had reached
the scene of battle. They came for
miles, and some from as far as Month
cello.
Sheriff Norman H. Simmons and J.
K. Johnson clerk of the court of the
parish, arrived from Franklin yester-
day morning, and the feeling subsidized.
/ Governor LOnginO of Mississippi and
/ Governor Heard of Louisiana were
notified. and reply came that troops
would be hurried to the scene
Burial of Victims.
Yesterday afternoon the nine negrf z
I who We're left in a heap where tfSe
/ had died We're piled into three -
marked graves, dug near ~theA-1-el1f '''o
: of Lofts tent house There Was-.xE
/ ceremony The missionary and his
daughter filled one grave and the
women and child another, the men a
/ third. At the same time prominent
} NAAiACAAo AAGAu a NDAAAEAEAANE W AAlAl DIS
attended by Sheriff Simmons, and a
message was sent to the negroes?
/ DO you want any more2''
NO" came the reply.
This had a quieting effect, and peace
: again reigned.
The negroes left the country. They
! carried all the personal effects pos
sible. Those who could rode on horse
! back and in buggies, and those who
could not ride took to the woods afoot.
] Those who were a little holder lined
the roads, getting out of the COM
munity.
The Picayune correspondent left the
scene of the battle this afternoon, and
all was quiet. The negroes are cOWed.
md it is believed there will be no fur
her trouble.