Bryan Morning Eagle

FANATICAL BLACKS.
Members of Religious Sect Are Cause of the Trouble.

New Orleans, Oct. 19.—Fanatical excitement of negroes calling themselves the "Council of God" appears to have been the cause of the riot Friday night in which one policeman was killed and several others wounded and a number of negroes badly injured.

The isolated house in which half a dozen negroes barricaded themselves, transforming the place into a veritable blockhouse which was fired upon by policemen and citizens from all sides for the better part of two hours, proves to have been the meeting place of a secret sect.

The trouble started during the meeting when highly excited negroes drew razors on Policeman Carblens because he attempted to enter to investigate reports of a disturbance caused by boys throwing stones at the windows. Razors were drawn across his face and neck, mortally wounding him. Many members of the meeting then fled. Those who remained and barricaded themselves were well armed and after the negroes had been smoked into submission by burning the fence several shotguns and other firearms were found under the meetinghouse.

The fighting occurred on New Orleans street and did not start in front of the German Presbyterian church as stated in previous reports. The excitement in that end of the city where the negroes held forth grew intense, and when arrests followed it required the efforts of a score or more of police to get the negroes through the mob and bring them safely to the station house. Members of the mob were bent on wreaking vengeance on the blacks and the officers found it necessary to arm themselves with shotguns and charge through the would-be lynchers to the patrol wagons, which were taken down the street at a gallop.
NEGROES SMOKED OUT.
Blacks Start a Riot In the City of New Orleans.
POLICEMAN CAMBIENS DIES

One of the Individuals Starting the Disturbance Is Mortally Wounded During the Fracas, and Officers and Mob Also Clash.

New Orleans, Oct. 19.—A party of negroes barricaded themselves in a downtown house and started a small riot. One policeman was killed and several wounded.

The trouble started in front of the Second German Presbyterian church at Claiborne and Annette streets during the services Friday night, and several negroes became boisterous. Patrolman Cambiens, who attempted to arrest them, was killed. The negroes ran to a nearby house, which they barricaded. With shotguns, revolvers and razors they awaited the police, a few of whom gathered quietly and stormed the house. Sergeant Wheatley was mortally wounded and Patrolman Wencke and Corporal J. W. Dunn received serious wounds.

A company of local militia, which happened to be drilling in front of police headquarters when the fighting was reported, volunteered for service and was rushed to the scene of the riot.

The riot ended after an hour and a half's siege by the police. The officers routed the negroes by burning them out, mortally wounding one and arresting five others.

Patrolman Cambiens was killed by a knife thrust, and his body lay for a considerable time in front of the barricaded house, no one daring to move it. About half an hour after his death a small detail of police made a rush upon the house, more than half of them falling to the pavement shot by negroes behind the windows.

The police were driven to shelter, carrying the wounded men with them.

For more than a quarter of an hour the negroes were masters of the neighborhood, while the police collected a force of twenty men to renew the attack. This larger squad surrounded the house so that no one could escape, and after finding that threats of shooting were of no avail, set fire to a fence behind the house.

The smoke drove the negroes from cover. They broke for safety singly, the first one falling mortally wounded, while two rushed out with empty hands held over their heads and begging for mercy. A badly wounded negro staggered out, and the police seeing that the fight was over rushed in and searched the house.

One negro was found under a mattress, and six arrests, including the crying negro, a badly wounded negro next staggered out and were made prisoners. Some of the others arrested appeared to be badly injured.

These negroes held the house for more than an hour against a force of well-picked police. The police were backed by a mob of more than 1,000 persons, and as soon as the two negroes submitted the police were forced to turn on this mob and fight with all their energy against threatened wholesale lynchings. The negroes were taken safely to the parish prison.