Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-02
THREE NEGROES MURDERED.
Six whites and Five Negroes Injured
The Victims of u Mob.

New Orleans, La, July 2G.-Three
negroes were killed, another will prob
ally die and five negroes and six whites
we're shot or otherwise injured by a
mob OF white boys that spent all of last
night and up to 3. 30 O'Clock this NOM
ing in a hunt for negroes. The police
were powerless, and the mob only
ceased its work after there were no
more negroes to find, those not falling
into the mob's hands having taken
refuge 10 their homes or been sheltered
by friendly whites. All the dead are
unknown. The negro most seriously
shot is Baptist Flo, aged 70 years.
The wounded whites we're either MEM
bers Of the mob or on lockers who were
wounded as result Of the reckless
shooting,
The mob acted entirely on impulse,
and seemed to be without leader. The
movement started from a gathering of
men at st. Charles avenue and Howard
street. which gathered force as it
moved. 1t stopped crowded Henry
Clay avenue car near the square, and
dragged out man, after firing one
shot In the car. He turned out to be
Alex. Rufiin, q Pullman car porter, and
he was badly used up. He was cut and
shot, and beaten over the head. j.
Cluny, the conductor OF Peters ave-
nue. car, was shot in the foot, on Frank
lin street. and the car riddled with
bullets. +. q. Davis, the motorman
| of the same car, was also shot in the
foot. Frank Shepherd, a white man,
who was in the crowd, was shot in the
right arm. Coming down to jackson
avenue, they met Il. p. Ardors, the
coloreA porter of an insurance agency.
He had heard indiscriminate shooting
and stepped out of his gate to see what
1T was about. He stepped into the arms
| of the mob, and they made short work
Of him. They stabbed and shot him in
the back, and left him for dead. In
the attack, his watch was stolen. A
dozen or more of the mob went out
further into the rear of town. and
met negress named Esther Fields
standing in her door, and 'brutally beat
her.
The main crowd continued Oh down
town. and began breaking into the
second hand stores on Rampant street,
hunting for arms and ammunition. The
police made demonstration, and drove
them off. After lingering around Ram
i part street for an hour, the moi
|
and the other starting back uptown.
The latter CT owd started for the new
basin near the Illinois Central depot
as that ia popular rendezvous fol
negroes. Before starting, they wounded
Oswald McMshon, 12-years-old boy
who had been following tho crowd. OI
the way through the PoydIas Market
negro Waterman, George Morris, Wal
shot twice in the back. When he fell
one of the young fiends stabbed him
He is sci iously injured. John Deeds
white man, was shot during the In
discriminate shooting in the Poydra
Market. They searched the vicinity o
the basin thoroughly. and failing t.
| find any one, walked out toward
franklin street, whore. they passed
negro-seated in front of bar room
whom they promptly shot. He was Dal
. White, a roustahout, and got bulle
, In his right wriet.
About / a. IN, they headed for tn
neighborhood of Canal street, and c.
the way looted two secondhand stores
One of their own crowd, n man name
John Doran, was shot in the leg.
: The downtown mob did terrible exc
. cution, and kept up it's work unit
3.3O a. m. Going down Villere stree
towards some negro novels, they saw
= negro in a crowded Villere street car
They halted the car, ordered about
: passengers out, and then murdered tn
: blacks. At Kelerec and Dauphi
streets, they found an old negro,
years old, named Baptist Flo, Who'll
they beat and shot almost to death
; Coming uptown again, they headed fe
Z the French Market, and met an VI
: known negro on Decatur street, betvee
> st. Phillip and Ursuline, whom tho
9 beat into insensibility. He die
2 shortly after. They found anotht
= negro In the market, and promptly pu
j an end to his existence. They locate
! the porter of the L. & N. pay car, an
chased him up the levee. He ran I'M
the Custom House, where he was pr
. tected by the nieht Waterman ut I'll
!, point Of Winchester. The crow
= sulked round for awhile, and the
J, gradually dispersed.
2 just before dayhreak, the relnnan
Z Of the mob gathered in the vicinity
. the Spanish Fort RAILROAD, to waylf
y negroes as they were going to the
y work at Chalmette. Some of the
u cams along, and the mob chased then
9 firing as they ran. A baker, on b
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70 New Orleans, La., July 26.-Aft
J. being in the hands OF lawless me
u for several hours, with the police a
parently powerless to maintain orde
New Orleans at daybrea again a
sumed peaceful aspect, and the mt
J. apparently had spent its fury, after oil
10 man had been killed and three INT
" fatally and IA seriously wounded.
" The mob was composed of boys al
y hoodlums, and was without leade
y The rioting grew out of the inten
n feeling engendered by the murder,
10 Monday night, of Capt. Day and Patro
~ man Lamb and the wounding OF Oftic
=. Mora by colored Desperate, Charlie
81 The better class of citizens EXPIRE
k great regret over the occurrences of la
~ night, and declare that the mob in
!; sense represented the community
y large.
7. New Orleans, La. July 81. -Hanni
70 Mabry, a negress. GO years of age, Il
ID n victim at O'Clock this morning
W the mob which has terrorized Il
o. negroes since Tuesday. She resid
4 with her aged husband at No. 10
a Rousseau street. A son and an infa
- child were also In the house, All we
OF sleeping soundly, when the mob bro
in the door. They claimed to be see
ing couple of notorious neRloe
Mrs. Mabry arose and appeared in I
a.. doorway of her bed room. She fell, !
oil stantly pierced by dozen bullet
\. and died in short time. The M
or then dispersed. Mrs. Mabry's s
I'd claimed to recognize two Of them, q
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