New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-05
ALMOST KILLED A NEGRO.
A NEw-YORK EXCURSION PARTY IN A
RIOT AT RYE BEACH
THE VICTIM TERRIBLY BEATEN WITH CLUBS AND

THE VICTIM TERRIBLY BEATEN WITH CLUBS AND
BASEBALL BATs-EIGHT MEN ARRESTED.
The police forces Of Port Chester and Rye were
hrrrledly called out yesterday afternoon to quel
riot Rye Beach. in which Andrew Clark.
colored man. OF White Plains was nearly beaten 10
death with baseball bats by a crowd Of New-York
pleasure seekers Clark IS now in the Port Chester
Hospital His injuries consist OF three large abra-
sions his head. a bad cut across his forehead
two welts on his Jaw. fractured arm and nearly a
dozen terrible bruises his body. II is doubtful
If ne will recover In three months Nearly two
thousand people who were spending the holiday at
the beach witnessed the fight. and many OF the
women and children tainted from fright.
Clark Is a stage driver and brought a stage load
OF people 10 the beach Soon after he arrived the
steamer George +. Starr came into the pier bring
ing two hundred members OF the John c. Hackett
Association Of the XIIIth Assembly District OF
New-York for a days outing at the beach There
was nothing 10 eat on the boat. but plenty 70
drink. and as result many OF the members were
intoxicated Clark and his wife and another col
ored man named Henry Laughold were among
those who crowded to the pier see the excursion
party land. Each OF the men on the boat wore
uniform and carried baseball bat In some man
ner Laughold became involved in a quarrel with
the first aunchfUl OF the men as the stepped on
the pier, and some struck him and knocked
him down. Clark. who directly behind Laugh
old rushed in to protect him. and three members OF
Kitchen gang, sprang him with baseball bats
Clark fought bravely to defend himself Selling
bat from one Of mis- assaants he dealt him heavy
blow on the head and turning quickly about struck
the other two men the head and they fell into
the Sound
At this moment another launch load Of men ar
rived from the steamer and there were cries OF
XIII the negroes; don't let them escape" Throw
them into the Sound"
Laughod and Mrs Clark fed terror-stricken
down the gangplank and were chased into
swamp. Clark tried to follow them but was pur-
sued by mob Of about fifty men, who overlook
him and punished him terribly with clubs and
after the man had fallen to the ground insenslble
the mob still continued TO beat him When the
beach. gave the alarm and hastily summoned ali
Of the deputies on the beach. Realizing that they
also telephoned to Sheriff Molloy At White Plains
ana had all Of the deputies in Rye and P0rtches-
with a posse. and Thomas Hebron one Of the
New men. arrived at the scene first The
the infuriated crowd. called for its dispersal
Heffron threw himself Clark's PROSTATE form
second posse arrived eight Of the mob we're
arrested ana taken 20 Portchester
in Rye and afterward, when his wounds were
dressed. he was removed to ihe hospital The men
els Leslie. Frank Quinn. Joseph Trimble. Charles
Beattie, Thomas Duffy and David Farley Herron
Nearly a dozen # the mob who are said 20 have
been leaders In the disturbance escaped by leap
irg into the Sound and swimming out TO the ex-
There were two New-York policemen on the boat,
Chester gave the prisoners preliminary hearing.
while nearly a thousand excited p-ople surrounded
that the coiored man was dead and that the
New-York men were 70 BE- held for murder. Judge
Parker accepted bail for the prisoners and they
will be tried to-day on charges Of assault with in
tent to kill.