The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-02
NEW ORLEANS IN
HANDS OF A MOB
Murder of PoIicemen PrOvokes
Whites " no Kill
Negroes.

NEW ORLEANS, July 26.-After be-
ing in the hands of lawless mobs for
several hours, with the police appar-
emily powerless to maintain order, New
Orleans at daybreak again assumed a
peaceful and orderly condition, the vio-
lence apparently finally ceased. The
last disturbance occurred about
o'clock, when white baker, whose
name is unknown, was shot in the leg
while a crowd of rioters were chasing a
gang of negroes. The mayor, police and
citizens are arranging today to take
precautions against a recurrence of
last night in the scenes of disorder. The
mob was composed of boys and hood
Iurns, and was without leader. The
/ rioting grew out of the intense feeling
! engendered by the murder of Captain
4 Day and Patrolman Lamb and the
wounding of Officer Mora by the des-
perado, Charles. The occurrences of
last night are greatly deplored by the
best elements of the community. They
represented in no sense an uprising of
an outraged community against wrong.
One man was killed, three others will
die, and fifteen wounded.
delegation of citizens today went
TO the city hall and asked the mayor
either to call out posse of citizens
or appeal to the Government to order
out the militia. The mayor decided
Immediately to prepare proclamation
ca,.lng for 500 volunteer citizens to as
l sist the police in preserving order. The
movement last night started from &
: gathering of men at the Lee statute
corner of st. Charles avenue and How
I ard street. Being ordered to dispers'
n the crowd moved up st. Charles street
s gathering force as 1T went and grad
: ually becoming infiamed TO the point o
4 desperation. 1t was not until after the.
o had stopped in Morrison Square Oh
Washington avenue and FRANKLIN
street, near the scene of the assassina
: ton of Captain Day and Officer LAM
e that they listened to a speech from
man hailing from Kenner, and the
I started out to waylay the negroes
: Most of the colored population ha
: taken warming from the excitement o
n the night before and kept indoors, bu
II there were some returning to thei
homes from work, and it was one o
q these who was the first victim.
|, The main crowd continued on dow
q town heading for the Parish prison
: They were met a block away by
; squad of police who stopped them. The
i they began breaking into the second
s hand stores on Rampant street in tina
8 neighborhood hunting for arms an
, ammunition. The police made dem
g onstration and drove them off, Afte
: lingering around Rampant street for a.
e hour the mob divided, one section goin
o down town, and the other starting bac
y up town.
u The downtown mob did terrible ex
ecution, and kept up it's fiendish wor
: until half-past o'clock A notoriou
: character took the lead and the
!. headed for the neighborhood of Frank
!, , lin and Custom House streets. The
:, saw a negro in crowded Villier stree
= car. He was dragged out and filled wit
!, lead, being instantly killed. The
!. moved out in the vicinity of the oil
;. Basin on Toulouse street and terrorize
= that neighborhood, but evidently
!, found no negroes. Then theS wen
u down as far as Kelerec and Dauphi
: streets, where they found an old ne
gro. seventy-five years old, name
!. Baptiste Fileau, whom they bsst al
= most to death.
q Coming up town again they met
. negro on Decatur street, whom the
3 beat into an insensible condition an
II left for dead They located the porte
= of the L. & n. pay car and chase
. him up the 1evee. Acting Mayor Mehl
:, issued a proclamation at 11:30 oclocl
q calling on all good citizens to keep tn
:, peace, but 1t did not stop the riotinl