The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-13
Many of the Injured Are Badly
Hurt and Some Deaths
May Follow.
THE POLICE ARE P0WERLEss.
State Troops Have Been Called Out
to Suppress Any Further
Trouble.

veil behind which the desperate white
levee laborers gathered, and which they
penetrated with Winchester rifles all aimed
at the colored non-union workmen on the
ships loading at the docks. The attack
was made at points several miles apart Just
before the arrival of the police, and as a re-
suit there are half dozen corpses and
dozen or so wounded men.
The police saw the attack but no arrests
were made, they claiming they were too
few to cope with the unexpected outbreak.
The day before the massacre all was quiet
and the Governor saw no grounds for in
reference, but to-day the business men
are denouncing both; the militia is in
readiness to move; an appeal to the Fed
eral Government has virtually been made,
and even the foreign Consuls have decided
to join in the move for peace at any price.
The causes which led to the trouble have
been of long standing and grew out of the
attempt of the ship agents and others in
terested to reduce rates. The white screw
men claim that the coIored men who were
given a share of the work under an agree
ment made secret cuts and violated the
agreement in order to obtain more work,
and gradually crowd the white men off.
The white association then severed all
ties with the blacks and refused to work
with them or for the men who employed
them. The white longshoremen joined
the screwmen in this. Since then the
steamship lines have been gradually going
over to the negroes. Lately the white
screwmen quit work on the lines still loyal
to them, stating that they would not work
until the whole affair was Strengthened out.
Several more lines then took on negro
laborers from necessity.
The white union finally determined to
retaliate upon the stevedores by offering to
reduce rates and deal with the ships direct
Ships in haste accepted the offer, but the
agents stood by the stevedores. The latter
offered to pay more than the screwmen
asked but the screwmen refused to deal
with them. The agents offered to pay
the screwmen their wages and place the
stevedores over them as superintendent
but this the screwmen declined. Then the
stevedores began importing colored screw
men from Galveston, and the whites, grow
ing desperate, broke loose in riots.
The dead are: William Campbell, colored
screwman, shot at Phillips street; Jules
Calico Carrabe, shoemaker, shot in front of
Lyons clothing-store; unknown man,
shoti in the vicinity of Cromwell line negro,
in same vicinity, not yet Identified Leon
ard Mellett, colored screwman.
The injured are: James H Bane, white.
the purser of the steamship Engineer, shot
in the head twice and arm once. danger
ously; Henry Brown, colored screwman,
shot five times in both arms and both legs,
will recover; Lem Perlsen, colored coal
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thigh and head, may recover; Lunis Cast.
colored employee at the sugar refinery, shot
in the hip, will recover; Billy Williams,
colored screwman, shot in the leg, will re-
cover; Frank Lighthall, colored shot in
the leg dangerously; Marion Brooks,
white longshoreman shot in the right leg
below the knee. Two negroes, names I'M
known, jumped into the river and it is
supposed were drowned
General John Glynn, commanding the
State troops, was seen this afternoon by an
Associated Press reporter and asked what
action the militia would take in case of
further trouble.
General Glynn stated that he was en-
gagged in keeping Governor Foster well in
formed upon what was taking place; that
orders received by him from the Governor
would not be disclosed, but that orders
issued by himself he could make public.
and he had not given any, awaiting the
commands of the chief executive
A visit was then paid to the British con-
sulate on Carondelet street, between Canal
and Common. The Consul stated that
Captain Woods of the British steamer En-
gineer had called upon him in the morning
after Purser Bane was shot and made a
statement OF the fact of the shooting The
Consul declined to make any statement as
to what action would be taken.
Leonard Mellett, the negro who was
shot in front of the sugar exchange this
morning died at the Charity Hospital at
$50 P. NJ. ]. II. Bane, the wounded pur-
ser of the British steamer Engineer. is
comfortably quartered at Touro Infrmary.
His wounds are by no means so serious as
they were at first supposed to be- Another
body has been identified as that of Henry
James, colored laborer. Henry Bland, a
colored laborer, who resides in Algeria.
crossed the river this morning in search of
work and had just left the ferry when the
fight began. He received load of shot in
the body and was taken back to hisshome,
where he now lies in a dangerous condi-
| ton.
The police up to s o'clock tonight had
made but two arrests in connection with
the riot. Robert Brooks and Mike Fitz-
| patrick, both white screwmen, were taken
into custody early in the evening. Both
were wounded, Brooks in the groin and
Fitzpatrick in the wrist, and are said to
| have been shot by their comrades during
the promiscuous firing. The prisoners
were charged with melting to riet and
were remanded to await hearing.
Calmly reviewing the happenings of the
morning everything would seem to indi-
cate the attack to be prearranged affair.
1t is rumored, and there is every reason to
believe the rumor to be correct, that a
secret meeting was held last night and the
bloody affair of this morning carefully
mapped out.
The details seem to be that the crowd Of
rioters who were sent uptown were resi-
dents of the lower districts, while these
who were sent downtown were those who
live uptown. The guns and rifles which
| were used by the downtown men who went