The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-11-02
MUCH BLOOD is SHED.
Race Riot in Louisiana In Which One
White Man and Ten Negroes
Are Killed.

New Orleans, Oct. 3O.-A special to
says: The race war between blacks
and whites which started at u negro
camp meeting ut Duncan's chapel
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock
left Il carnival! of blood up
the Pearl river valley uncqualcd
in the history of the country.
One white man is dead, another
is NOW dying with bullet hole
through his stomach and Il third
white man is badly wounded. Nine
negroes were killed in the bloody af-
fray-tivc men, three women and one
small child. \ dozen or perhaps
more negroes escaped to the woods
and swamps with wounds that are
believed to be certain death in the
brush away from medical care. Many
are perforated with lead.
Joseph Seal, son OF Willis Seal,
aged % years, residence at Narando,
La, was killed. The wounded are:
tally wounded, now dying, residence,
Narando, La; Edward Thompson.
aged AS shot through thigh and
1lrshy portion of leg, residence, Va
raudo.
Among the colorcd participants the
following were killed:
Rev. Alexander Connolly, aged so pastor
Duncan chapel; Mary Davis. aged 80, his
daughter; Crcar Lott, aged 4G; Julia Peters.
his daughter. aged "A: Mellon Peters. her
child, aged four years: Amy Tony, aged Is
years, mothcr-inlaw o: Crcar Lott; Lewis
Duncan. aged is years, son of Helen
Dunn, living In Poparville: Thomas Par
ker' aged "a: Kid Beverly. aged is years. a
turpentine worker from Georgia.
The fierce conflict ragged for half
an hour. Those at Il distance say
the firing sounded like a pitched bat
tic between troops. To the camp
meeting negroes had come from 200
miles all up and down the valley.
On last Thursday the meeting
opened with several hundred negroes
cncamped around the church in tents
and in rudely constructed shantics.
1t was TO continue one week. There
they ate and slept and held services
in the chapel. One day previous to
the camp meeting the negro Bill
| Morris had been burned at the stake
near Halltown for an assault on Mrs.
j. j. Ball. Public feeling was at n
high pitch. Under those conditions
the negroes gathered at Live Oak.
There was trouble over license,
and Crcar Lofts tent became the CEN
ter of contentious. Some trouble oc-
CURED Saturday evening, but no
bloodshcd. 1t came up again Sunday
afternoon when Constable Boon and
II posse rode up to LOFTS tent with
Il warrant. Lott came out and is re-
ported to have shouted. with an
oath: zone niggcr has been burned,
but a - white man will be next"
Wade Walker, one of the con-
stables posse, was struck over the
head with a Winchester, and then the
slannht crbcgan. The blacks fed from
the frail wooden church, for it was
no shelter from the rain of bullets.
Lott retired into his tent, shooting
and fighting. Joe Seal received his
death wound. A torrent of lead was
sent whizzing through the tent and
through, the church while the ne
grocs fled.
Preacher Connolly was shot while
standing in his yard. His daughter
fell just inside the house. The other
negroes around Lofts place kept up
II steady rain of bullets. 1t was death
and blood and the shricks of the
wounded and dying were heard on
every side. Lofts old mOthcr-in law,
his two daughters and the little boy
fell in a heap inside the shelter So
phic Lott saved her life by conceal
ing herself behind the stove. Then
she escaped and the men did not
harm her. They were after Crrnr
Lott. He was barricadcd and the
next move was to fire the place,
which they did. When the fire forced
him from under cover he appeared
in the doorway and 20 rifle balls went
crashing through him. lie fell in n
heap, head foremost on the ground.
Parker and beverly, both blacks, fell
with him.