The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-30
.C0NFLIC. RACED
FOR HALF AN HOUR
Race War in Louisiana
Was Bloody.
NINE NEGROES KILLED
Dozen or More Escaped With Wounds
Probably fatal,
NEGRO WHO STARTED 1T SHOT.
Place Where He. Barricaied Himself Fired,
and When tife Flames Drove Him
from Cover. twenty Rifle
Balls Went Crashing
Through
Him.
NEGRO WHO STARTED 1T SHOT
lBy Associated Prces.l

BALLTOWN, LA. Oct. 29.-Thc race
war between the&blackS and whites, which
started at a negro camp-meetiny at
Duncan's Chapel, Sunday, forms d story
Of blood uncqualled in the history of the
Pearl River Valley. One white man is
dead, another is dying with a bullet hole
through his stomach, and u third white
man is badly injured.
Nine negroes were killed in the bloody
affray-five men, three women and one
small child. Asdozen or perhaps more
negroes escaped 20 the woods and swamps
with wounds that are believed to be cer-
tain death in the brush away from med
ical care
The dead are: White-Joseph Seal. son
OF Willis Seal, aged thirty-two, residence
at Earando, La.
Wounded: White-Clarence Thomas Ell
liot, aged twenty-siN, fatally wounded,
now dying, resrience Val'ando, La.
Edward Thompson, aged forty-five,
shot through thigh and tleshy portion Of
leg; residence Varando.
Dead-Colored. Rev. Alexander Con-
molly, so, pastor Duncan Chapel; Mary
Davis, so, his saughter; Crear Lott, 4b,
Julia Peters, LAtt's daughter, "a; Mellon
Peters, her c7liid, aged four; Amy Tony.
%, mother-in-l3 of Crear Lott: Lewis
Duncan, IS, sonSof Helen Dunn, living IN
Poplarville; TheInas Parker, "a; Kid Bev-
crIy, Is, a turpeltine worker from Geor-
gia.
MANI WOUNDED.
No oae is able to estimate the number
of wounded negroes who escaped the
carnasssbehind8 8the church. They scat
tered inall directions. Some are known
TO have heen shot, but they have not
been founsi.
The conflisst fslged for half an hour.
fi.;,, ~
ed like a b5ttia between troops.
TO the camp meeting negroes had come
from 900 miles, all up and down the val
ley. Elder Duncan, of New. Orleans, for
whom the chapel was named, was
present.
On last Thursday the meeting opened
with several hundred negroes encamped
arount; the church, in tents and in rudely
constructed shanties. One day previous t.
the camp meeting, when the reSro. Bill
Morris had been burned at the stake near
Balltown for an assault on Mrs. j. j.
Ball. public feeling was at a high pitch.
Under those conditions the negroes gath
cred at Live Oak. There was trouble over
a license, and Crear Lofts tent became
the center of contention. Some trouble
occurred Saturday evening, but there was
no bloodsheG. 1t came up again Sunday
afternoon, when Constable Boon and a
rant. Lott came out, and. IS &c r,rted, .
have shouted with an OATH One niger
has been burned but d. white man will
be next
SLAUGHTER BEGAN.
Wade Walker one of the constabla's
posse. was struck over the head with d
Winchester, and then the slaughter be-
gan. The blacks fled from the frail wood
en- church, for it was no shelter from the
IN, NJ hull 7 nft rod into hie. Tor,
shooting and fighting. Joe Seal received
his death wound Preacher Connolly was
shot while standing in his yard. His
daughter fell just inside the house. The
other negroes around Lofts place kept
up a steady rain of bullets.
Lofts old mother-in-law. his two
daughters and the little boy fell in
heap inside the shelter. Sophie Lott saved
her life by concealing herself behind the
stove. Then she escaped and the men did
not harm her. They were after Crear
Lott. He was barricaded. ana 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
twenty rifle balls went crashing, through
him He fell in a heap, head foremost, on
the ground Parker and Beverly, boTh
blacks, fell with him.
THOUSAND ARMED MEN
For twenty-four hours it looked as ii 4
general uprising would wipe out the bla. *
race in Washington parish. Over i,0H0
armed men yesterday We're at the accaa
of the battle.
Yesterday afternoon the nine negroes,
who were left in a heap where they had
died, were piled into taIeir unmarked
graves dug near the charred remains Of
Lofts PENTHOUSE. There was no cere-
mony. The minister and his daughter
flIed ono pf the holes the women and
child another, the men a third. At the
same time prominent citizens he'd a con-
l.asgd puo2eS no penunuoal