Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
RACE WAR
IN SOUTH.
New Orleans in the Hands Of
a Furious Anti-Negro
Mob.
MANY NEGROES KILLED
Mobs Run Riot Thru the City and Kill
All the Negroes They Can Find
Many innocent Suffer-Poice Are
Powerless to Protect Them.

New Orleans, July 26.-After being
in the hands of lawless mobs for sew
eral hours with the police apparently
powerless to maintain order, New Or
leans at daybreak again assumed a
peaceable and orderly condition and
violence has apparently finally ceased.
The last disturbance occurred about
5 o'clock, when a white baker was
shot in the leg while a crowd of
rioters We're chasing a gang of ne
groes. The mayor, the police and the
citizens are arranging today to take
precautions against the recurrence of
last nights scene of disorder.
The mob was composed of boys and
hoodlums, without leader. The riot
ers grew out of the intense feeling en-
gendered by the murder of Captain
Day and Patrolman Lamb and the
wounding of Officer Mora by the Des-
perado Charles. The occurrences last
night are greatly deplored by the best
elements of the community. They
represented in nc sense an uprising
of an outraged community against
wrong. One negro was killed, and
three others will die. Fifteen whites
and blacks were wounded.
New Orleans, July 26.-All last night
and UP to $3.50 O'Clock this morning
mobs ran riot thru the city on hunt
for negroes and those untortunates
who fell into their grasp were killed or
SO badly wounded that they were left
for dead.
After the mobs got started the ne
groeS became terrorized and took shell
ter in their homes and cuthouses,
where the people protected them. So
it was only the unsuspecting and in
offensive negroes who We're the vic
tins.
The police were powerless. AS
fast as they dispersed a crowd in one
section, it only reformed and moved to
some other point to continue it's dev-
ilish work.
The mobs were composed almost en-
tirely of boys under 81, and they had
no leaders but acted on common i'm
pulse. The movement started from
gathering of men at the Lee statue,
corner of st. Charles avenue and How
ard street. Being ordered to disperse
"a m al
gathering force as it moved, and grad
ually becoming inflammed to the point
of desperation.
TWO negroes We're pulled from
| crowded street cars and shot and beat
en-. Other colored peopl attracted to
their doors by indiscriminate firing.
and those on their way to work were
treated in like manner. Several
whites We're wounded by stray shots
and John Doran, member of the mob,
received bullet thru the leg. Many
second hand stores were looted to OBJ
tain arms and ammunition. The mob
divided into two sections, both march
ing to the neighborhod where the ne
groes rendeZyoused, one section grad
ually melting away about one O'Clock,
while the Others continued it's fiendish
work until about three o'clock, when
it too, disbanded.
Just before daybreak the remnants
of the mob gathered in the visinity of
the Spanish Fort Railway, and waylaid
| negroes as they We're going to work.
Some came along and the mob chased
them, firing at raem as they ran. Act
| ing Mayor Mehle issued a proclama-
tion at midnight calling on all citi-
zens to keep the peace; but it did not
stop the riotins.
Militia VIII be Called Out.
New Orleans, July 26.--Wild reports
are reaching police headquarters from
various sections of the city, giving
information OF the beating of negroes.
| Work on the levee has been suspended
The big grocery and produce houses are
practically doing nothing because they
cannot get negro drivers to risk their
| lives. Mayor Capdevielle has commun-
icated with Governor Heard, who will
Immediately call out the militia to pre-
serve order.
Annual Gathering of Lutherans
| Pin Mar Md, July 6.-ApDroXimate.