The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-29
FIERCE RACE RIOT
IN new N.|= ORLEANS
Three White Men and
EleVen. Negroes Killed.
WORSE ANTICIPATED.
Men Armed With Guns and Rifles
FIocking to Scene.
STARTED AT A NEGRO. MEETING
Negro Who Was Conducting Business With
out License Cursed Constable, and
Fight Fol,owed--Tle Riot Undoubt-
edIy the Sequel to Burns
ing OF Negro Norris at
Stake Recently.
STARTED AT A NEGRO MEETING
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NEW ORLEANS, LA, Get 2S-Thc
Picayune's Amity City special says:
Three white men and eleven negroes
killed is the startling and terriiole news
from Washington Parish tonight Your
correspondent has just conversed with 4
man from E'ranklinton, and he confirms
the above information; but he knew
nothing OF what has happened since yes
terday evening. The first news Of the
race riot was brought here to-day by
Cornelius Nixon, who, with his mother,
left from near ITranklinton this morning.
He stated that white men rode into
TranklintoN at o'clock this morning,
asking for Aalp, stating that the negroes
were up in arms and threatening to exter-
inmate the whites.
WORSE EXPECTED.
The scene of the trouble is near Balls
town, where a negro was burned last
week for criminally assaulting a white
woman. This was not the cause of tie
murders yesterday, in which three white
men and eleven negroes We're killed.
Mr. Nixon saw and talked with many
men from the scene of the trouble. and
tpected to-day. as many white men were
flocking 10 the scene, and it is said that
the negroes are also preparing.
E. r. Carter arrived from Fran1linton
tonight a little after dark and told your
correspondent that the scene was terrible
and further trouble was expected He
said Joe Seals and Charles Elliott and
another white man, whose name he did
not know, We're dead, and Z. Fl. Thomp-
son, a white man, wounded, and eleven
negroes We're dead. His information was
up to last night. MAS obtained. from
people who went TO Franl1liuton for help.
At 3 O'Clock this morning a posse left
Franklinton for the scene in charge OF
Sheriff simmons and from all over the
county armed men were hurrying to the
same place. Air. Carter said that prob
ably 500 men were under arms to-day
in Washington Parish.
NEGRO CAMP MEETING.
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 re-
freshment stand and a constable, a white
man, name not given, went to him and
asked for his license. He had none and
became impudent, cursed the constable
and defied. The constable withdrew and
assistance He returned with
several white men. when the negro Lott
rushed out fired point blank into the
crowd, killing Joe Seals and Charles Ell
lott. The whites returned the fire and
killed Lott Then a negro preacher
named Connolly, rushed out of house
with gun in hand, attempting to shoot,
when he was killed. His daughter also
was killed. it is said. accidentally. In
The shooting which followed another white
man was Killed and E. II. Thompson
wounded and seven negroes killed.
The shooting had no direct connection
with the burning of the negro Morris in
that section last week, but it is undoubt-
edly sequel to that tragic event. Since
that time it is reported that the negroes
have been holding nightly meetings, pre-
pairing to attack the whites.
Balltown is about twenty miles FROM
Franklinton in a sparsely settled section
1t is isolated and almost entirely cut off
from the outside world. Franklinton is
q miles east of this place and there arc
no telegraph or telephone lines.