The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-29
RAGE RIOT IN LOUISIANA
THTRTY PERSONS REPORTED TO
 HAVE BEEN KILLED.

Trouble Biachs Threaten to E1ter- minate Whites Trouble Arose at n Camp Meeting.
 New Orleans. Oct. 2s.-A special to the Picayune from Jackson Miss. says
 that Governor Heard of Louisiana has telegraphed Governor Longino of Mis-
 sissippi that there is a race riot at
 Balltown, Washington Parish, La, and that thirty are reported killed Wash
 ington Parish sadjoins Marion county and Governor Heard asks for permis-
 sion for Louisiana troops to pass through Mississippi. Governor Lon
 gino promptly granted the request.
 New Orleans, La, Oct. 2S.-The Plea yune's Amite, City special says: Three white men and eleven negroes killed Is the startling and terrible news from Washington Parish tonight. Your correspondent has just conversed with man from Franklinton, and he con- firms the above information, but he knew nothing of what has happened since yesterday evening. The first news of the race riot was brought here to-day by Cornelius Nixon, who with his mother left from near Franklinton this morning. He stated that white men rode into Frankinton at o'clock this morning asking for help, saying that the negroes were up in arms catching to exterminate the whites The scene of the trouble Is at or near Balltown, where negro was burned last week for criminally assaulting white woman. This was not the cause, however, of the murders yesterday In which three white men and eleven ne- groes were killed and several wounded.
 P. B. Carter arrived from Franklin ton a little after dark tonight and told your correspondent that the situation was terrible and that further trouble is feared He said Joe Scales and Charles Elliott and another white man whose name he did not know were dead and E. H. Thompson, a white man, was wounded, and eleven negroes were dead. His information was up to last night and was obtained from people who went to Franklinton for help. At 3 o'clock this morning posse left Franklinton for the scene in charge of Sheriff Simmons and from all over the country armed men were hurrying to the same place. MT. Carter said 300 men probably were under arms to-day in Washington Parish.
 The trouble occurred at negro camp meeting and the origin, as near as can be ascertained was as follows:
 Greer Lott negro, was running a stand, and a constable, white man, name not given, went to him and asked for his license He had none and became impudent, cursing the constable and defed him. The con- stable withdrew and obtained assist ance. He returned with several white men when the negro rushed out and fired point blank into the crowd, kill ing Joe Scales and Charles Elliott.
 The whites returned the fire and kill ed Lott. Then negro preacher named Connolly rushed out of a 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 l man was killed and F. H. Thompson and seven or eight negroes killed. The shooting had no direct con- 1 nection with the burning of the negro | Morris in that section last week, but l t is undoubtedly sequel to that tragic event Since that time it is reported | Hat the negroes have been holding , nightly meetings, preparing to attack he whites.
 Balltown is about twenty miles from Frankinton in a sparsely settled sec ion It is isolated and almost entire y cut off from the outside world. is twenty-seven miles .ast of this place and there are no tele- graph or telephone lines.
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