The age-herald., 1900-07-27
Beat Several Negro sa

pistol into downtown house and wounded a child.
 Beat Several Negroes
 At Il o'clock mob marched through Lafayette Square, which is opposite the City Hall, and discovering some negroes in the park, jumped on and beat them until the Senegambians made their escape. An hour afterward a white man saw a negro named Ross at the corner of Lafayette and Dryades streets and fired his gun at him. Those in the streets fled in every direction and the negro made his escape. Shortly after l o'clock, Josephine Wild, a child, while seated in front of her home, caught a bullet in the knee, that was evidently intended for some one else.
 At D. m. Hordo Fratallo and Tony Mi chael, Italians, got into a dispute as to running down and wiping out the negroes One had knife and the other a gun Fratallo was badly wounded in the hands.
 One of the most sensational incidents of the day was the discovery of two negroes wounded almost unto death in box car on the 1evee front near the corner of Jo- sephine street. The poor fellows were des- perately hurt and only one was conscious. He was so frightened that he declined to give any account of how he happened to be in the plight he was Both were re- moved to the Charity Hospital. There it was iouiiu thetl bOtll DeSH StdDDeu u the heart. One was Nathan Brown and the other Charles Washington. At 2 o'clock an unknown white man came along Julia street. Near the corner of Baronne he saw negro and without any provocation began to fire at him. The negro escaped, it is believed without hay ing been hit.
 Sheriff Klock, in charge of the parish prison. saw both the Mayor and the Chief of Police today. There is confined in the prison Leonard Pierson, who was the man with Charles, when the latter shot and dangerously wounded Patrolman Mora be- fore he murdered Captain Day and Patrol man Lamb.
 Anxious to Get at Pierson
 The mobs that have been going the rounds of the city have been anxious to get at Pierson if possible and lynch him. The sheriff assured both officials that he had the jail so well protected that it would require the use of dynamite to reach the culprit Neither the sheriff nor the Chief of Police, whose office is in the same building, apprehend that any attempt will be made to break into the jail to secure the negro.
 -.Mayor Capedevielle and his assistants made arrangements this afternoon for transportation facilities which would as- sist in the quick despatch both of the militia and of the special police from one section of the city to another. All the trolley lines sent representatives to his honor to say that they would place special cars at his disposal throughout the night so that armed forces would be quickly moved hither and thither The express companies also assured the Mayor that their wagons would be ready to respond to any call which might be made upon them.
 Late this afternoon Mayor Capedevielle issued a proclamation which had an ex- cellent effect. It called upon all good ciu- gems not enrolled in the special police to go to their homes or places of business and remain there, and warned and advised them not to assemble to idle about the streets. The police, general and special, were ordered and directed to dsperse all crowds and to arrest all obstreperous and disorderly persons.
 They were especially ordered, after p. m., to arrest all persons found loafing or idling about the streets. As a result of the proclamation tonight few people were found on the streets.
 At the various exchanges this afternoon the wish was expressed that the Associ- ated Press might make it public to the world that the emeute was sincerely depre- cated and had the support of none of the conservative elements of the community.
 The local business bodies much op- posed to the importation here of large numbers of negroes from the plantations to work the levees and on the public works, but while they are of that opinion, they are irreconsiibly opposed to violent methods in dealing with the negro popula- ton. Only the worst elements have par ticipated in the disorders here, and the as- surance is given that those responsible for these disorders will be punished if they can be apprehended.
 Mayor Capdevele today sent to Chief Caster a request that he seek to ascertain the names of those who participated in the disorders of yesterday, last night and to- day, with view to their prompt and rig orous prosecution. District Attorney Cur ley notified the mayor today in a letter that he would prosecute to the extreme ex- tent all violators of the law in the past few days, regardless of whom they might be.
 Chief Caster said tonight that he be- lieved that the worst of the trouble was over and that by tomorrow the city would resume its normal condition of calmness
 Mayor Capdevielle said that he would probably spend the night at the hall in order that he might be within call in the event that there should arise any need for his services.