St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-02
RACE WAR IN WASH:
INGTON PARISH.

Parish, last Sunday aud continued
till Monday.
According to the first otficia
advices from the scene of the con
tllct, about 90 people were killed
| Among the dead are three whites
three negro women and one negro
child. The trouble began at Z
negro camp meeting IN progress Al
Live Oak church, three miles from
Balltown. There pitched battle
ensued between a posse of white
men, gathered by the constable Of
the district, to investigate the re.
port that negro was operating a
restaurant without license at the
church.
In some way the blacks got wind
of the approach of the posse. They
were ambushed in the Live Oak
church and in the store occupied by
Crea Lott, notorious negro, aud
the man suspected of violating the
law. The negroes in the church
opened the ball by few scattering
shots, but fed when the posse con-
linued to approach.
Then Lott and his followers
commenced hostllities. After they
had fired u number Of rounds the
posse fired the building. No sooner
had this action been taken than
Lott rushed out with a double bar
relied shotgun at his shoulder. He
fired into the posse and one of the
whites, Will Seals, was killed,
and Charles Elliott MORALLY
wounded.
Lott had time TO fire but once,
for his fire was returned and he
sanh to the ground riddled with
bullets. A negro preacher, Con-
nelly by name, rushed out Of the
building, armed with u musket,
which he leveIed al the whites.
Before he could pull the trigger he
had been killed.
A number of negroes were con-
cealed in Lofts place, and they
kept volleying the body of men
under the leadershipof the deputy.
Another white man was killed
whose name cannot be learned.
E. H. Thompson was also
wounded. AS the negroes were
driven GU, of the building by the
flames, aud confronted
the whites, armed with all kinds of
weapons, they were shot down by
the posse. The whites won Il COM
plele victory, aud the surviving
negroes fled to. the woods.
When the end came, and the
llau been burned TO
ashes, it was founu that eleven
negroes, all told, bad been shot
and burned u death. Three
women, who were in Lofts store,
were cremated alive. Two of
them were charred beyond ideutl-
fication. One of the women had
a child with her. The child per-
lshed in the flames TOO.
AT 1910 O'Clock Monday after
noon Governor Heard, OF l.ouisi-
ana, received the following mes.
sage by wire from Columbia, Miss:
sColumbla, Miss, Oct. Is
w. w. Heard, Governor: Terri
BILE conflict at Balilown, Washing
Ion Parish, between whites and
blacks. Send troops at once, via
Poplarville, MISS. Thirty already |
lead. II. N. SIMMONS,
Sheriff, Washington Parish.
Gov. Heard took immediate
action, aud ordered the First Troop
If Cavalry. l.. 5. n. g., under
arms TO await further orders.
1t was III Balltown that William
negro, was burned at the
,take last week for assaulting and
Utmost numbering the estimable
wife Of Mr. John Ball, a proml-
tent storckeeper. Since this affair
he camp meeting at Live Oak
began and the negroes discussed it
until they were ready for anything.
t was, III all probability, the fate
# Morris which intiamed them to
he step they took in ambush,ng
nd opening fire OH the constable's
'osse. Morris crime, however,
ad nothing to do with the organi-
alton of the posse, which was
ummoned legally for the suppress.
ion Of the violation oil law which
'as reported at the Live Oak
hurcb.