Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-31
A LOUISIANA RAGE R|0T.
Three White Men and Eleven Ne
groes Killed In a Riot In
Washington Parish, La.
TROUBLE OCCURRED Ar CAMP MEETING.
a Negro t.lri Am"ns the sisIa-rhe Ter.
rible Encounter Took Place Near the
Scene or . Bura,n- mt the stalk. of y
N-gr.. u hi.i, Occurred Rec.atiy-More
aroable Expect Il.

New Orleans, Oct. 2S.-The Plea
yuLe's Amite City special says:
"Ihree white men and IL negroes
killed in a race riot" is the startling
and terrible news received tonight
from Washington parish. leur cor
respondent has just conversed with Q
man from Franklinton, who confirms
this information, but he knows moth
ing OF what has happened since yes
terday evening. The first news of
the race riot was brought here to-day
Ly Cornelius Nixon, who, with his
mother, left from near Franklinton
this morning. He stated that white
men came into Franklinton at two
o'clock this 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
nea Balltown, where a negro was
burned last week for criminally as
saultirg a white woman This was
not the cause, however, of the muir
ders yesterday, in which three white
men and IL negroes were killed and
several wounded. Mr.. Nixon saw and
talked with many men from the scene
and said more and worse trouble was
expected to-day, as armed men were
fiocking to the scene and it was re.
| ported that the blacks were equally
active in preparing for a battle.
+. Ba Carter arrived from Franklin
ton a little after dark tonight, and
told your correspondent hat the stu
alton was terrible, and that more
trouble was feared. He said that Joe
| Seals and Charles Elliott and another
white man whose name he did not
know, were dead, and f. I'll. Thomp-
son, a white man, was wounded, and
hat IL negroes were dead. His in
formation was up to last night, and
was obtained from persons who went
to Franklinton for help. At three
o'clock this morning a posse left
Franklinton for the scene of battle, in
charge of Sheriff Simmons, and from
all over the country armed men were
hurrying to the same place. Mr.. Car
ter said hat 500 men were probably
under arms to-day in Washington
parish.
The trouble occurred at a negro
CdAiD AACCtAHS, IN tnO OAiStu. uS liCdt
as can be ascertained, was as follows:
Greer Lott, a negro, was running a
refreshment stand, and a constable, n
white man, name not given, went to
him and asked for his license. He had
none, and became impudent, cursed
the constable and defied him. The
constable withdrew and obtained rs.
s~istance. 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
preacher named Connolly rushed out
of a house with a gun in hand, at
tempting 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. III.
Thompson wounded, and seven or
eight negroes were killed. The shoot
ing had no direct connection with the
burning of the negro Morris in that
section last week, but it is undoubted-
ly a sequel to that tragic event. Since
that time it is reported that the me-
groes ave been holding nightly meet
ings preparing to attack the whites.
Balltown is about twenty miles
from Franklinton, in a sparsely set
tied section. 1t is almost entirely cut
off from the outside world. Franklin
ton is 81 miles "a of this place, and
there are no telegraph DR. telephone
lines.