The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-16
THE NEW YORK RACE RIOT.
Tsyenfy-four Persons Injured and
Twenty-Five Arrested.

! NEW YORK. Aug. 16.-Twenty-four per-
| sons injured, at least one OF whom is ex-
pected to die. and twenty-five prisoners
locked up in West Side station hoassg, are
the results this morning of the race riot
| that started last night at the wake OF the
murdered Policeman Thorpe, and spread
within a few hours, until It had thrown
into uproar the whole West Side from
Twenty eighth Street to Longacre Square
The men who started the trouble were a
mob who knew that Policeman Thorpe had
been murdered by negro, and WHO started
out to ayerge his death. Waiting onIy for
the chance 10 fight, they crowded around
the house, at 4S1 Ninth Avenue. in which
the dead policeman lay. An aged woman
pointed her finger at the light that sho ed
from between the closed blinds, and cried:
There he is, that poor fellow the niger
murdered"
That was all that was needed. There
was shot and rushing OF feet, and from
that moment until six hours efterwaTd
when torrent of rain cam down which
drove whites and blacks alike into shelter
not negro on the West Side dared show
his head
The man who was most hurt and who is
expected 10 die, is Lloyd ". Lee, a negro,
foTty-two years old OF 200 West Thirty
seventh Street. Lee was the man who on
being driven into a hallway at Seventh
Avenue and Thirty seventh Street by Po-
iceman Kennedy, stabbed the latter ia the
side Kennedy drew his revolver and fred
five shots. two of which hit Lee on the
side of the head He was taken 10 Belle
yue Hospital
Policeman Kennedy was taken to New
York Hospital, but had his wound. which
was a superficial ore, bandaged up SO that
he went home at o'clock. James Rice
twenty years old, conductor on the Met
ropolitan Railway, was shot IN the left leg
by Albert Smith, q negro, twenty-four
years old. of 366 West Thfrty-seyenth
Street. Rice was taken TO Roosevelt Hos
pital.
Albert Muller, whNe. Of Fourth Ave-
nue, was hurt at FoTty-frst Street and
Eighth Avenue. taken TO Roosevelt hos
nit and made prisoner there The other
~~ed persons. SO far as was known this
Ts99r7fng, were taken in hospital afnbiI-
IaAcss 10 their homes
One of the first orders given by the
commanders in the troublesome preeints
10 their men this morning was 10 arrest
any persons whom they found buying re-
yolYers. Investigation showed that the
negroes OF that section were arming
themselves. George Weaver, who carries
revolvers in stock in his shop. at 460
Ninth Avenue. said that he had sold two
reyolveTs TO negroes today. A negro wo-
asked 10 buy pistol. The weapon was
placed On the counter and the woman was
about TO pay for il when q policeman
went into the store and said TO her: You
may buy This reoyIver. but the minute you
take it up I viii arrest you for carrying
a weapon without a permit The woman
did not take the revolver.
There was quiet today on the West Side,
but the police feared that it was peace
that was to be attributed TO daylight, and
that when darkness came the scenes OF
violence of last night would be repeated
An extra police force suaTded the district
all day, and Chief Deyery said that as
soon as night came he would send out a
force strong enough to cope with any dis
tuTbance.
- The negroes for the most part Kept in
their homes and from their windows
looked into the street, as if they expected
that at any moment there might be an
attack from the mob Great crowds gath
cred in front of 4s1 Ninth Avenue the
house where lay the body OF Policeman
Thorpe. There was much satisfaction
among them when it was made known that
Arthur Harris, who is wanted for Thorpe
murder mad been grrespd in NashipgrnD