The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-27
NEW ORLEANS RACE RIOTS
STATE MILITIA ORDERED OUT TO
QUELL THEM.
Five Hundred Special Policemen Also
sworn In-AlI Saloons and Gun Shops
Closed Business at a Stnndstill Ne
groes All Chased From the Streets Last
Night Worst Believed to be Over.

groes All Chased From tho Streets Last
| Ntght-Worst Believed to be Over.
| New Orleans, July 26.-Disorderly
scenes following the rioting of last night
prevailed throughout the city to-day
and resulted In the swearing in by the
mayor of 500 special policemen and the
tia, Governor Heard responding prompt-
| ly to the appeal of Mayor Capdevielle,
| for assistance In suppressing the exist
| ing lawlessness and in preventing to-
night a recurrence of the violence Of
last night Throughout the day attacks
were made by irresponsible mobs of
whites upon the blacks.
Before nightfall the negroes had been
effectually chased from the streets. The
effect OF the disorders was to put a
practical stop to business in the whole
sale districts and on the levee front AS
this meant serious Gripping of the
the trade of the port, the business ee-
ment rallied In force, and hundreds of
the most prominent men of the city re-
sponded to the appear from the mayor
for assistance In preserving order A
summary Of the casualties growing out
of the disturbances last night and to-
day shows that 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 In order to
prevent the miscellaneous distribution
of arms the mayor this evening ordered
the closing of all gunshops.
Orders were also issued to close up
every saloon In the city. The police
have been practically helpless during
the disturbance. The force consists of
some 300 men, including clerks and tel
egraph operators, and this is manifestly
a force inadequate to the preservation
of the peace of a city Off 100000 people
But aside from this the fierce indlgna-
ton among the members of the depart
ment of the ruthless murders of Captain
Day and Patrolman Lamb by the negro
Robert Charles, to some extent made
the police sympathetic with the mobs
in their pretended efforts to avenge the
murders, Mayor Capedevielle was at
Ocean Springs last night and when he
arrived to-day he found awaiting him
a delegation of the leading merchants
of the city, who said the interests of
the community and Its commercial well
fare demanded prompt and vigorous ac-
tion.
About the same time Lieutenant Gov
Ectolina1 ho boI vrtt
scene of outrage upon negroes on Canal
street joined In the conference at the
hotel. He advised conference with
Governor Heard at Baton Rouge. With
out delay the governor ordered out the
Washington artillery the Louisiana
field battery and the First regiment and
at twilight there were 1900 men congre-
gated in the armories At the same
time the mayor, In a proclamation, ap-
pealed for 500 special police. Before 8 a.
m. 400 of the representative citizens of
the community had been sworn In.
Hoodlums prowled the streets
throughout the day and whenever they
spied a negro assaulted him In some
cases citizens rallied the police, and
with their assistance beat the attackers
Just after daylight the remnants of
one of the mobs gathered at the Span-
ish fort railway station, whence a large
number of negro laborers daily leave
for their work at Cjalmette. They saw
a crowd of darlSies approaching and
started to chase them. Louis Lapuy-
ard got in their way and received a bull
let in the leg. At II o'clock mob
marched through Lafayette square
which is opposite the city hall and dis
covered some negroes In the park, Jump |
ed on them and beat them until thew
made their escape.
One of the most sensational incidents
of the day was the discovery Of two me-
groes badly wounded. One was uncon-
scious. The other declined to give any
account of how the shooting occurred
There Is confined in the porish prison
Leonard Pierson who was the man
with Charles when the latter shot and
dangerously wounded Patrolman Mora |
before he murdered Captain Day and |
Patrolman Lamb. The mobs that have !
been going the rounds of the city have
been anxious to lynch Pierson Neither
the sheriff nor the chief of police appre-
hend that any serious attempt will be
maui " DItdA lHtO the JAN.
The mayor and his assistants made |
this afternoon for trans
portation facilities which would assist
In the quick dispatch both of the mill
tia and of the special police from one
section Of the city to another.
Late this afternoon Mayor Capede-
vielle issued a proclamation which had
an excellent effect. 1t called upon all
good citizens not enrolled In the special
police to go to their homes or places of
business and remain there. AS a result
} fthe proclamation few people were on
he streets tonight.
AT the various exchanges this after
noon the wish was expressed that the
Associated Press might make 1t public
20 the world that the present trouble
vas one sincerely deprecated and hav-
ng the support of none of the conser
vative elements of the community The
ocal business bodies are much opposed
% the importation here of large num-
)ers of negroes from plantations to
work on the levees, or the public works.
out while they are of that opinion thew
Ire very much opposed to violent meth
IDS in dealing with the negro popula-
ion. only the worst elements have par
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