The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-27
MODS KILL OR WOUND
OVER SCORE or PERSONS
Militia and Special Posse Ordered Out to Stop the
PrOmiSCuOuS Slaughter Of Negroes.
Business is Suspended in Wholesale Quarter and COored
Persons Dare Not Venture Out

of last night and today one negro was
beaten to death, six were so badly
wounded that their lives are despaired
OF, and about a score of people, white
and black, male and female, have been
more or less seriously wounded
Disorderly acts following the disturb
ances of last night were committed
throughout the city today and resulted
IN the swearing in by the mayor of 800
special policemen and the ordering out
OF 500 state militia upon orders of Gov
ernor Heard, who responded promptly
to the appeal Of Mayor Capdeville for
assistance in suppressing the existing
IaWleSSneSs and in preventing the re-
currence Of violence of last night.
Throughout the day attacks have
been made by irresponsible mObs of
whites upon the black element. and
the negroes, before nightfaIl, had been
completely chased from the streets.
The effect Of the disorders has put
practical stop to business in the whole
sale districts and the river front. and
this means a serious Gripping of tha
trade of the port. The business ele-
ments rallied in force and hundreds of
white men responded to the appeal of
the mayor for assistance in preserving
order.
Colonel Wood, who commanded the
First Louisiana regiment IN the Span
ish war, was placed in command of the
special police
The police have been practically help
less throughout the disturbances. The
force consists of 300 men. including
clerks and operators, and this is mani
testify force inadequate to the preser-
walton of the peace in a city of 80, 600
people. But aside from this was the
indignation among the members of the
department over the killing of Captain
Day and Patrolman Lamb by the negro,
Robert Charles.
Further, there is a strong resentment
on the part of the working people
against steamship agents and contract
orS, because of the employment of ne
gro labor to the exclusion of whites on
public works and on the levee fronts.
Troops and Citizens Under Arms.
Governor Heard today sent messages
TO Colonel HogdOn, commanding the
First brigade, and had him Immediately
order out the Washington artillery, tha
Louisiana Field artillery, and the First
regiment. At twilight there were l, 500
men in tire armOTieS.
At the same time the mayor in
proclamation, appealed for 500 special
police. Before o'clock p. m. 400 rep
resentatiYe citizens had been sworn in.
L L1S Ale VI uItW upon the IcdQluS LdIu-
ware and ammunition establishments
of the county. and the specials were
heavily armed and then distributed
over the cit.
HOodlums rOamed the streets through
out the day, and whenever they spied
a negro, assaulted him. In some cases
citizens helped the police beat off the
hOOdlums.
Tries to Shoot Woman Prisoner.
One of the most fragrant instances of
cOwardice shown was that Of a man
who slipped into the mOrgUe I'D, point
ing his pistol through a window, made
an attempt to shoot one of the female
negro prisoners in the parish prison.
Just before daylight the remnants Of
one of the mObs gathered at the Span
iSh Fort railway, where d large number
of negro Iaborers daily leave for their
work at Chalmette. They saw a
crowd of darkies approaching and
started to chase them. Louis Lapuyard
got in their way and received a bullet
in the leg Later in the forenoon a ne
gro emptied his pistol into a downtown
house and wounded a child. At Il
o'clock a mob marched through Lafay-
cite square, which is opposite the city
hail. and discovering some negroes in
the park, jumped on and beat them IN
til they made their escape.
An hour afterward white man saw
a negro named Ross at the corner of
Lafayette and Dryades streets and fired
his gun at him. Those on the street
fed in every direction and the negro
made his escape.
Shortly after o'clock Josephine Wild
a child, While seated in front of her
home, caught stray bullet in the
face.
Two hours later NOrdo FratalIo and
Tony Michael, Italians, got into a dis
pute as 10 whether the mob was right
or wrong in running down and whip
ping the negroes. One had a knife and
the other a gun. FratallO was badly
wounded.
One of the incidents of the day was
the discovery. of two negroes wounded
almost to death in a bOXcar on the
levee front, near the corner of Joseph
inc street. They were desperately hurt
and only one was conscious. He was so
frightened that he declined to give any
account of the shooting. Both were re
moved to the Charity hospital, where
it was found that both had been stab
bed close to the heart. One was Nath-
an Brown and the other Charles Wash
inEton.
At o'clock an unknown white man
ner of Baronne street, said he saw
a negro, and without any provOcation,
began 10 fire upon him. The negro es-
capped, it is believed, without being hit.
Attack on Prison Feared.
Sheriff KIock, 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 Patrol
man Mora. before he killed Captain Day
and PatrOIman Lamb. The mObs that
have been going the rounds of the city
have been anxious to get PiersOn, if
possible, and lynch him The sheriff
assured both of them that he had the
Jail so well protected that it would re-
quire the use of dynamite to reach the
culprits.
Mayor Capdeville and his assistants
made arrangements this afternoon for
transportation facilities which would
assist in the quick dispatch both of the
military and of the special police from
one section of the city to another. All
the trolley lines sent representatives to
the mayor to say that they would place
special cars at his disposal throughout
the night, so that forces could be moved
hither and thither. The express COM
panies have also assured the mayor
that their wagons would be ready TO
respond to any call which might be
made upen them
Mayor Issues Proclamation.
Late this afternoon Mayor CapdeviIIe
issued a proclamation. which had an
eXcelleTT effect rallied rrDor, q n ,ifi