Newspaper Headline on Riots in New Orleans
This file appears in: Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
This file appears in: Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
Gun smoke mingled with steam rising from smokestacks of British ships docked along the levee. Rifle shots replaced the usual sounds of the port. The rattling of carts and longshoremen singing shanteys…