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The Madison Daily Leader
Madison, Lake County, South Dakota
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In New Orleans, a riot erupted from fanatical excitement at a meeting of the negro 'council of God' sect, resulting in the mortal wounding of Policeman Cambias by razors, injuries to several other policemen and negroes, a barricade standoff, and arrests amid mob tension.
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Fanatical Excitement of Colored Religious Sect the Cause.
New Orleans, Oct. 21.—Fanatical excitement of negroes calling themselves the "council of God" appears to have been the cause of the riot in which one policeman was killed, 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 a meeting place of the sect. The trouble started during a meeting, when highly excited negroes drew razors on Policeman Cambias because he attempted to enter the meeting to investigate reports of a disturbance caused by boys throwing stones through 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 a burning fence several shotguns and other firearms were found under the meetinghouse.
Excitement in that section of the city where the negroes held forth grew intense and when the arrests followed it required the efforts of a score or more of policemen to get the negroes through the mob and land them in the stationhouse.
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New Orleans
Event Date
Oct. 21
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one policeman killed, several others wounded, a number of negroes badly injured, several negroes arrested
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Fanatical excitement of negroes of the 'council of God' sect during a meeting led to razors being drawn on Policeman Cambias when he tried to enter to investigate a disturbance, mortally wounding him. Remaining members barricaded themselves in the meeting house, armed with shotguns and firearms, leading to a two-hour shootout with police and citizens until they were smoked out with a burning fence. Intense excitement and a mob required many policemen to escort arrested negroes to the stationhouse.