The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-30
A Bloody Race Riot in
 Louisiana. NINE NEGROES KILLED
One White Man Dead and An
 other Dying.
The Blacks Have Fled from thu Country and It is Now Believed That the Worst Trou-
 ble is Over.

New Orleans. Oct. 29.-A special to The Picayune from Balltown La, says:
 A race war between the blacks and whites started at a negro camp meeting at Duncan's Chapel Sunday afternoon at o'clock that has left a carnival of blood up the Pearl River Valley unequalled in the history of that country.
 One white man Is dead, another is now dying with a bullet hole through his stomach and third white man is badly wounded.
 Nine negroes were killed in the bloody affray-five men, three women and one small child A 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 care. Many are perforated with lead.
 The dead, white-Joseph Seal. son of Willis Seal. aged g years, residence at Varando. La.
 Wounded, white-Charles Thomas FL liott, aged 26, fatally wounded, now dying, residence at Varando; Edward Thompson, aged 45, shot through the thigh and fieshy portion of leg, residence, Varando.
 Dead, colored-Rev. Alexander Conerly, aged 50 pastor Duncan Chapel; Mary Davis, aged 30 years, his daughter, Crear Lott, aged 46; Julia Peters, his daughter, aged 24; Melton Peters. her child, aged years; Amy Tony. aged 75 years. mother-in-law of Crear Lott; Lewis Dun can, aged IS years son of Helen Dunn, living in t'oplarville; Thomas Parker aged 24; Kid Beverly, aged IS years, a turpentine worker from Georgia.
 No one Is able to estimate the nuni- Der of wounded negroes who escaped the awful carnage behind the church. They scattered to the four winds. Some are known to have been shot, but they nave not been found.
 The fierce conflict ragged for half an hour. Those at a distance say the firing sounded like a pitched battle between troops.
 The quarterly meeting was turned into A camp meeting. Negroes came from two hundred miles, all up and down the valley. Elder Stephen Duncan of New Orleans, for whom the chapel was named was present.
 Last Thursday, the meeting opened with several hundred negroes encamped around the church, in tents and in rudely con structed shanties. The meeting was to continue one week. There they ate and slept and held services in the chapel. One day previous to the camp meeting, Bill Morris had been burned at the stake near Balltown for an assault on Mrs. J. J. Ball. Public sentiment was at high pitch.
 Trouble Over License.
 Finders those condition the negroes gathered at Live Oak. There was trouble over A license and Crear Lott's tent be- came the center of contention. He was what they called high stringer; was a yellow negro, half breed and he was already being watched. Some trouoLe occurred Saturday evening. but no blood shed. Then it came up again sunday afternoon when Constable Boon and a posse rode up to Lotts tent With war rant.
 ,orted to have shouted: By God, one niger has been burned. but - - white man will be the next"
 Wade. Walker. one of the constable's nosse was struck with Winchester rifle on the head and then carnage began. The blacks fled from the frail wooden church, for if was no shelter from the rain Of bullets. Lott retired into his tent shoot ing and fighting.
 ,lO NNtANAA torrent of lead was sent whizzing through the tent and through the church, while the negroes fled.
 Preacher Conerly was shot in his yard. His daughter fell just inside the house. The other negroes around Lofts place kept up steady hre.
 Washington Parish had never witnessed such terror and blOodshed. Lott's old ,notber-in-law. his two daughters and the ell the Gh CnDhip Iott saved her life by Concealng herself behind the stove. Then she escaped and the men did not harm her.
 The Structure Fired.
 They were after the desperado. Crear Tott He was barricaded. and the next move was to fire the place, which they did When the fire forced him from un- der cover he apeared in the doorway, ana twenty rifle balls went crashing tbrouqb him. He fell headforemost on the ground. Parker and Beverly, both blacks, fell with him
 Washington Parish never saw such slaughter Joseph Seal charles Elllott and Edward Thompson. the wounded whites were carried away to the home of E p Sones about three-quarters of mile through the pine woods, which was hastily converted into hospital. There Seal died yesterday and was buried this afternoon from his home in Varando. six miles away. and there. in the Sones emergency hospital, Elliott now lies dy- ing.
 For twenty-four hours 1t looked like general uprising to wipe out the black raca In Washington Parish. The news spread like wildfre and yesterday over GOO armed men had reached the scene of tba battle. They came from miles around some from as far away as Mon ticello.
 sheriff Norman II. Simmons and J. K. Johnson clerk of the court of the parish, arrived from Franklin yesterday morn ing and the feeling subsided.
 Governor Longino of Mississippi and Governor H. ard of Louisiana were noti- fed and the replies came that troops would be hurried to the scene.
 Dumped Into Graves
 Yesterday afternoon ;he nine negroes who were left where they had died, were piled into three unmarked graves dug
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