The Penn's Grove record., 1900-08-17
mob IN new YORK CITY.
Ayenge Murder Of Policeman Thorpe
BY Attacking Negroes.
RIOTERS FIGHT 500 BLUEc0ATs.
Aegroes DRAGGED From Cars, Houses and
STORES. Women Beaten and Men Shot.
Stabbed and O~lubbed-The Outbreak
Lasted Nearly Six Hours Qusllsd
BY Police Reserves.

stabbed and Ciubbed-rhe Outbreah
Lasted Nearly Six Hours QuelIed
~ Police Reserves.
New York City (SpeciaD. x race
war as fierce as it was sudden ragged
along the west side Of this city be-
tween Thirtieth and Forty-ffth streets
and along Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and
Ninth venue Wednesday night. It
called for the services Of 100 police
men. commanded by Chief Devery in
person. and for six hours there was
virtually q reign of terror such as has
never been e in New York since the
Draft Riot days of war times.
The air was filed with shots; ne
groes were attacked IN street cars and
dragged from bicycles In the streets.
They were pounded and beaten, in
some instances into insensibility, and
the police were at times wholly una
ble to afford protection or to control
the mad, sweeping fury Of the mob.
The riot was the result of the killing
on Sunday. of Policeman Robert ].
Thorpe, OF The West Thirty-seventh
street station by a negro. Arthur Har-
ris. a wake over Thorpe's body was
in progress. Feeling against the ne
groes in the neighborhood of Thorpe's
late home had been at white heat for
a couple Of days.
A drunken negro pulled q revolver
on two white women, friends Of
Thorpe's family, who were standing
in front Of the Thorpe house. That
started the trouble, which spread like
wildflre.
: Over two hundred negroes were bad
" beaten. They were dragged from
street cars, pelted with stones, beaten,
kicked and jumped upon.
Then word passed from one police
station to another, and reserves came
out like quick-mcving detaetmcnts Of
troops. Rioting suppressed in one
place broke out in another.
Saloons were closed by orders of the
police. and merchants, alarmed by the
crashing OF bullets through windows,
were forced to close their stores.
At midnight the ri0ting had spread
to dozens of points along the entire
west side from Twenty-third TO Fiji
Lfieth streets. 1t was a scene to re-
mind the sober, staid citizens of New
York OF The outbreaks in the South
and Southwest that drew virtuous an
ger from Northern cities.
Clubs We're used until the policemen
were almost exhausted. Revoivers
were emptied into n air, 4 IN n
or TWO nred at the upper
stories q the negro tenements. from
winch the negroes defensiveiy fred
bricks, paving stones and other mis-
SHES. Ihat many negroes were not
KllieQ outrlgnt IS miraculous, Tor the
mop at times was Irenzled.
Cars ~ broadway n Eighth v
nue. were stopped by q MOT ard ter
ror-strlcken negroes dragged Dodily to
tha street, where they were kicked and
beaten.
Ierrorized negroes, pursued by the
mop, t00k refuge IN many OF the
broadway hotels. Pistols. razors,
clubs, bottles and stones were freely
used by both negroes and whites.
Store windows were broken by flying
missiles.
Even the negro women caught in
the streets suffered at the hands Of the
mob.
Police reserve were called out from
every station between Charles street
and West 125th street. Inspector
Thompson at first took charge, but
soon relieved by Chief Deyery
,x,i,on 4bn ,oo~r5o aa