New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-27
ORDER IN NEW-ORLEANS.
STATE TROOPS CALLED OUT AND SPE-
CIAL POLICE SWORN IN BY MAYOR
ONLY SLIGHT RIOTING-
ONE NEGRO KILLED

throughout the city to-day. and resulted in the
swearing in by the Mayor Of five hundred spe-
cial policemen and the ordering out of aSteen
hundred of the State militia. Governor Heard
responded promptly TO the appeal Of Mayor Cap
devie for assistance in suppressing the exist
ing lawlessness and in preventing tonight a
recurrence OF the violence Of last night Through
out the day attacks were made by irresponsible
mOhs Of whites on the blacks. Before nshtfaI
the negroes had been enectuaiIy chased from
the streets
The effect OF the disorders was TO put prac-
tcal stop TO business in the wholesale districts
and on the Ievee front. As this meant a serious
Gripping of the trade of the port. the business
element rallied in force and hundreds Of tn
most prominent men of the city responded 70 the
appeal of the Mayor for assistance in preserving
order.
A summary Of the casualties growing out Of
the disturbances last night and to-day shows
that negro was beaten 10 death, six were
so badly wounded that their lives are despasred
of. and about a score of persons. white and
black. male and female have been more or less
seriously wounded. In order 10 prevent the mis-
cellaneous distribution of arms the Mayor this
evening ordered the closing Of gunshops likely
to supply the baser elements. and early in the
day for the better preservation OF the public
peace. he issued orders to the police TO close up
every saloon in the city.
Colonel Wood. who commanded the 1st Louisi-
ana Regiment in the Spanish war. was placed
in command of the special police.
WHERE POLICE SYMPATHIES ARE
The police have been practically helpless dur.
Ing the disturbance. The force consists OF some
three hundred men, including clerks and teIe-
grarh operators. which is manifestly made
| quate to the preservation of the peace Of city
of 10000 people. But aside from this. the
| fierce indignation among the members of the De-
partment over the ruthless murders of Captain
Day and the patroman. Lamb. by the Negro
| Robert Charles. to some extent made the police
symPathize with the mobs in their pretended
efforts to avenge the murders. The fact that
there has been a strong feeling on the part Of
the working people against steamship agents
| and contractors employing negro labor TO the
exclusion of whites on public works and on the
levee fronts also contributed somewhat. it is
believed. to the dtsincIination Of the police TO
do their full duty.
Mayor Capedevielle was at Ocean Springs last
night when the mObs swept over the city but
when he arrived his Office today ne came
with a full determination to take hold Of the
situation with hrm hand He found awaiting
him delegation of the leading merchants OF
the city, who said the interests OF the coumu-
nifty and its commercial welfare demanded
/ prompt and vigorous action
About the same time Lieutenant-GovernorE rs
| topinel. who had witnessed a scene Of outrage
! upon negroes in Canal-st.. joined in the confer
| erCe at the hotel He at once advised a con-
| ference with Governor Heard at Baton Rouge
/ The long distance telephone was used. and the
| Governor said he would order out all available
/ troops. Without delay he sent messages TO
| Colonel Hodgson, commanding the First Bri-
| gade in the absence of General Glynn and had
| him Immediately order out the Washington Ar
tillery. the Louisiana Field Battery and the
| LIST Regiment At twilight there were fifteen
hundred men congregated in the armories-
| At the same time the Mayor in a procIama-
tion appealed for five hundred special police.
Before p. m. four hundred of the representa-
tive citizens of the community had been sworn
in. The Mayor made requisition on the leading
hardware and ammunition establishments OF
the CITY and the special men were heavily
armed and sent to various districts
DISORDERIY PROCEEDINGS
HoodIums prowIed the streets throughout the
day and whenever they spied a negro they as
sauIted him. In some cases citizens rallied the
police and with their assistance beat off the
attackers. One of the most fragrant instances OF
cowardice shown was that of man who slipped
into the Morgue and, pointing his pistol through
a window, made attempt 10 shoot one of the
women negro prisoners in the parish prison.
Just before daylight the remnants OF one of the
mobs gathered at the Spanish Fort railway sta
tfon whence a large number of negro laborerS
daily start for their work at Chalmette. They
crowd of darl1ies approaching and start
ed TO chase them Louis Lapuyard got in their
way and received a bullet in the leg.
Later in the afternoon negro emptied his
pistol into downtown house and wounded a
child. At IL O'Clock mob marched through
Lafayette Square. which is opposite the City
Hall, and. discovering some negroes in the park
jumped on them and beat them until they made
their escape An hour afterward a white man
saw a negro named Ross at the corner OF Lafay-
cite and Dryades sts. and fired his gun him
Those on the street fed in every direction, and
the negro made MS escape shortly aIter
o'clock Josephine Wild. child. while seated in
front Of her home was hit by a stray bullet in
the knee
ore of the most sensational incidents OF the
day the discovery IF two negroes, badly
wounded. in a bOXCar Only one conscious
shooting occurred At O'Clock an unknoWa
white came along Julia-st. Near the cor
ner of BarOnne-st- he saw a negro. and without
any provOcation began To fire at him. The
negro escaped. il is believed, without having
been hit.
There is confined in the parish prison Leonard
PiersOn. who the man with Charles when
the latter shot and dangerously wounded Pa
troIman Mora, before he murdered Captain Day
and Patrolman Lamb. The mObs. that have
been going the rounds of the city have been
anxious % lVnCh PiersOn Sheriff RIOck assured
both the Mayor and Chief OF Police that he had
the Jail so well protected that il would require
the use Of dynamite 10 reach the culprit. Neither
the Sheriff nor the Chief of Police. whose head
quarters are located in the same building, ap-
prehend that any serious attempt viii be made
TO break into the jail
To MOVE MEN ABOUT THE CITY.
Mayor Capdevielle and his assistants made ar
rangements this afternoon for transportation
facilities which would assist in the quick dis
patch both OF the militia and OF the special po-
lice from one part OF the city to another All
the trolley lines sent representatives 10 the
Mayor. to say that they would place special cars