The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-07-27
MILITIA
Ordered Out 10 Suppress Riots
in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, July 26.-In the
rioting of last night and today one
negro was beaten to death and six
were so badly wounded that their lives
are despaired Of Many people white
and black, male and female have been
seriously injured. Disorderly acts ,o'-
lowing the disturbances of last nlyht
were committed throughout the city
today and resulted in the swearing in
by the mayor of 500 special policemen,
the ordering out of 1.50O OF the state
militia upon the orders of Governor
Heard, who responded promptly to the
appeal of Mayor Capedeville for as
sistance in suppresslng the existing
IawIessness and in preventing tonigh,
a reoccurrence of the violence of last
night Throughout the day attacks
have been made by irresponsible moDs
upon the black element. and the ne
groes before nightfall had been com
pletely chased from the streets. The
effects of the disorders have practical
ly put stop to business in the wholc-
sale districts and on the river from,
and this means a serious Gripping of
the trade of the port. The business ele-
ment rallied i'm force and hundreds of
prominent men from the city respond
ed to the appeal of the mayor for as
sstance in preserving order
Colonel Wood who commanded the
list louisiana regiment during the
Spanish war. was placed in comman1
of the special police.
The police have been practica "
helpless throughout the occurrence.
mi. fatC ~ hundred
including clerks and operators, and this
is manifestly a force inadequate to the
preservation of the peace in a city of
s1OOuC people. But aside from this vas
the indignation among the members OF ne
department over the killing of Captain
Day and Patrolman Lambby, by the nc
gro Robert Charles.
Furthermore there is a strong resent
ntut on the part of the working people
against the steamship agents ana con-
tractors because of the employment Of
negro labor to the exclusion of whites
on p,b1c works and on the levee fronts.
Mayor Capedeville was at Ocear Springs
and without delay he sent messages To
Captain Hogden. commanding the hrst
brigade and had him Immediately order
out the Washington artillery, the LoW-
siana field artillery. and the first regi-
ment. At twilight there were 1.5OO men
I'm the armories At the same time the
mayor in a proclamation, applied for
500 specia lpOlice. Before 4 o'clock p.
m. 400 representative citizens had been
sworn in The mayor drew upon leading
hardware and ammunition establishments
Of the city and the specials were heavily
armed and distributed over the city
Hoodlums prowled tho streets through
cut the day, and whenever they spiel a
negro assaulted him. In some cases
citizens rallied the police and with their
assistance beat off the hoodlums. One
OF the most fragrant instances of coward
ice shown. was that OF a man who slip
ped into the morgue, and pointing his
pistol through a window. made an at
tempt TO shoot one OF the female negro
prisoners in the Parish prison. Just az
ter daylight the remnants OF one OF the
mobs gathered at the Spaish fort rallway.
when a large number OF negro laborers
daily leave for their work at ChalInette
They saw a crowd of darkies approach
and started to chase them. Louis Lspu
yard got in their way and received a
bullet In the leg. Later in the forenoon
a negro empued his pistol into a down
town house wounding a child At eleven
o'clock mob marched through LAFAYETTE
square, which is opposite the city han