People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — RIOT IN NEW ORLEANS [ARTICLE]

RIOT IN NEW ORLEANS

EIQHT NEGROES SHOT DEAD WHILE GOING TO WORK. Another Victim I* ■ White Man —The Mlltta Called Oot the Moment Troop* were Thought to lie Needed—Coal Minen Gaining. New Orleans, La., March 12. —Shortly after 7 o’clock this morning about fifty white dockmen marched down to the Harrison Cromwell line landing and waited till a band of negroes came along. When the colored men appeared they were subjected to a galling fire, before which nearly a dozen fell, one fatally wounded dying in a few moments. The others were more or less seriously hurt. Rioting was the order to-day and it is feared many men will be killed, as the police are determined to put down the lawless element. Another outbreak took place at the head of Joseph street, where one negro was killed. In the rioting at the French market a Mexican sailor Is reported to have been killed and three men. negroes, fatally wounded. The nsgro killed at the head of First street is unknown. He was walking along the levee, where he was met by a crowd of 200 white men armed with shotguns, Winchesters and revolvers. One of the men put a pistol to Ills head and blew out his brains. The levee Is crowded with armed men patrolling it and they threaten to shoot every negro they can find. The policemen are trying their beat to keep the men in check. At the same time the negro was killed at First street the beat portion of the police force had gone te the French market, where more rioting occurred. At 1:46 o’clock everything was reported quiet, although It la expected more trouble will occur. The militia, has been called out. The vletims of the various skirmishes. In the city are as follows: The killed: JAMEH A. CARRIBBEEN, shoemaker. Shot through the head. He was killed in the rioting at the French market. TWO UNKNOWN NEGROES, shot to death at Bienville etreet. TWO UNKNOWN NEGROES, shot through the head. They Jumped Intothe river and were drowned. FOUR UNKNOWN MEN, died at the, Charity hospital of wounds inflicted at the steamer docks. The Injured: J. A. BAIN, purser on the British, steamship Engineer; shot three times through the head and will die. ROBERT BROOKS, white; shot through the head; will die.

MORE MINES GRANT SCALE. Strikers In West Vlrglale aud Pennsylvania Uaia Ur.-uad. Clarksburg, W. Va„ March I*.—After being In session all night the managers! of the Glen Falls and F&rnum mines, and their employes arrived at a settlement and COO men returned to work thl* morning. The operators granted the rate of 35 cents per ton, which is the price asked by the men for machine mining. Other differences were compromised. The demand for coal has greatly Increased of late. At Wheeling the Cleveland and Pittsburg Coal company, operailng the TUtonvill* mins, announced that their mines would resume operations in full as soon as th'-y can be gotten In shape. They have been. Idle for the past four months and for a month past the miners have been living on charity. EIUHT THOUSAND RESUME. Coal Minors of the Pltt«burg District Art at Work Asrln. Pittsburg, Pa., March 12. — Eight thousand river coal miners In t'lls district resumed work to-day. the operators having granted the 69 cents per ton demanded by the men. The operators claim, however, that the advance Is not permanent and that it would not have been granted but for the reason of the favorable condition of tlxo river for shipping coal. The railroad coal operators’ association has decid< rt to pay not over 65 cents as long as he New York & Cleveland Gas Coal company pays its minors that price. The mormbers of ihe association who granted the 69 uents de*. anded by ti e miners exi lained that they did it so they could f’irnish coal to their local retail trade and that no coal was being dug for outside shipments. To Look Into Strike. Brooklyn, N. Y., March 12. /vccording to Asse.uM.ymnn Friday the Brook yn strike investigating com nittee will c , J ve particular attention to the Long Island traction company. An) >ig other witnesses who have been subpoenaed are Chauncey M. Depew, G. and faster Workman Sovereign of ti . Knights of Labor, President Arthur o' the Locomotive Engineers, T. . 1 -wdcrly and United States Labor Commissioiner Carroll D. Wright.