Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-16
FIERCE ANTI
NEGRO RIOTS
NEGRO MURDERER STARTS AGI.
TATION LIKE THAT AT
NEW ORLEANS.
FIFTY PERSONS KILLED
OR WOUNDED IN FIGHT
Heavy Rain Quiets Frenzied Mob
Five Hundred Police on Duty
During Might.

New York, August 16.-Such a furious
ebullltion of race hatred as found vent in
the rloting that occurred here last niyht.
ago of Policeman Thorpe by negro
named Arthur Harris, has not been
equalled in New York for many years. AS
result of the disturbance which ragged
from midnight until o'clock and burst
out In a flame of passion and violence at
intervals until daybreak, there were
about fifty persons injured by pistol balls,
razors, or knives rocks and clubs. OF
these, one negro, Lloyd Lee may not re-
cover and Policeman Kennedy is also
seriously injured. Lee is alleged to have
made threats against the life of Kennedy
because he was the particular friend and
associate of Thorpe, the murdered officer.
Thorpe was the third white man mur-
derously assaulted in the vicinity by ne
groes,a race prejudice having been engen-
dered.
Peace was restored in the anti-negro
riot district until after o'clock this
morning. During the riot it is estimated
that five hundred police were on duty
and ambulances from every hospital on
the West Side were kept busy. A police
estimate of the results puts the number
of wounded at fifty, the number of ar
rests. The most determined and
desperate hand to hand fight which oc-
Cured during the riot was that between
Detective John Kennedy and the negro
Lloyd Lee. Lee acted like a madman
when Kennedy ordered him to move on.
Refusing to do so he said to Kennedy: II
know you. You are Thorpe's partner. I
have been laying for you,'' and at the
same time he slashed Kennedy in the
shoulder intlicting deep wound.
Kennedy pulled his revolver and fired
four shots. One bullet went through
Lees jaw.
Captain Cooley and Kennedy say that
Lee threatened several days ago to do
Kennedy because the latter was Thorpe's
partner. ~ ,
Al negro named Walker, one Of the the
a,trical team Of Williams and Walker
was seen on a Broadway car. dragged Oft
and given a beating. His compnion es-
caped, but not until after he had re-
ceived a severe drubbing.
Acting Captain Burns or the West 3Oth
street station, arrived with a squad and
arrested four white men, the first whites
of the riot to be arrested. This was after
o'clock this morning.
At 2 O'Clock this morning the police had
the riot in hand, although there was a
feeling that danger was TAR from pase
and a heavy police guard was mounted.
Whenever negroes collected they We're
swearing vengeance. Fortunately about
O'Clock there was a heavy doWnpour or
rain and it is the opinion or the oollce
that this did more to dissipate the MOB
and quiet the riot than thousand men
would have been able to do.
At o'clock, when 1t was thought all
was over, Policemen Hughes and Jelif OF
the West Thirtieth station, were assaulted
with a shower of bricks and bottles thrown
by negroes on the roof of house. The
crowd from the street rushed up the stair
way, but by the time they reached the
roof the assailants had descended through
scuttles and disappeared.
The last arrests made, as reported by
the police this morning, were those of
1,nl IIn~ ric yuyaS cn{d
that the man is the Harris who killed
Thorpe At the station he denied knowing
anything about Thorpe, and said that
neither he nor his wife had taken any part
in the disturbance
The police say that few. If any, previous
race riots In this city have compared with
that of last night, SO far as the dogged
determination of those who participated in
1t is concerned.