Evening journal., 1900-07-27
|RCE MOBS
|STOP BUSINESS
Negro Beaten to Death
in New Orleans
|RS MAY Die OF WOUNDS
|GunShOpS and Liquor Saloons
|Are Closed by Order Of the
Mayor
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W Orleans, July 27-Disorderly
IS following the rioting Of We'd
ay night prevailed throughout the
yesterday and resulted in tho
fling in by the mayor of 1900 Of
state militia. Governor Heard re-
ding promptly to the appeal Of
B or Capdevielle for assistance in
ressing the existing lawlessness
in preventing a recurrence of the
snce. Throughout the day attacks
made by irresponsible mobs of
.es upon the blacks. Before night
the negroes had been effectually
ed from the streets. The effect OF
disorders was to put a practical
to business in the wholesale dis
s and on the levee front. AS this
mt a serious crippling OF the trade
he port, the business element rallied
force, and hundreds of the most
ninent men of the city responded to
appeal of the mayor for assistance
preserving order.
summary of the casualties growing
of the disturbances Wednesday
at and yesterday shows that one
70 was beaten to death. six were so
ly wounded that their lives are
paired of and about a score Of peo-
white and black, male and female,
e been more or less seriously
lnded.
q order to prevent the miscella-
us distribution Of arms the mayor
evening ordered the closing Of
shops likely to supply the baser ele-
nts, and early in the day, for the
ter preservation of the public peace,
led orders to the police to close up
ny saloon in the city.
ol. Wood, who commanded the First
lisiana regiment in the Spanish war,
S placed in command of the special
ice.
he police have been practically help
S during the disturbance The force
lsists Of some 300 men, including
rks and telegraph operators, and
is manifestly a force inadequate
the preservation Of the peace of a
y Of 10000 people. But aside from
the fierce indignation among the
.mbers of the department over the
,hless murders of Captain Day and
trolman Lamb by the negro Robert
aries. to some extent made the police
Inpathetic with the mobs in theil
etended efforts to avenge the muir
. RS. The fact that there has been g
'ong feeling on the part of the work
2 people against steamship agents
d contractors employing negro labor
the exclusion of whites on public
Drks and on the levee fronts also con.
|ibute somewhat, it is believed, to the
.sinclination Of the police to do theil
/ II duty.
|Hoodlums prowled the streets
|roughout the day and whenever they
lied a negro assaulted him. One o
most fragrant instances of coward
|e shown was that of a man whit
Tipped into the morgue and pointing
pistol through a window made al
tempt to shoot one Of the female
sgro prisoners in the parish prison
lust after daylight the remnants of on
L the mobs gathered at the Spanish
Drt railway station, whence a larg
lumber of negro laborers daily leav
br their work at Chalmette. The!
NV a crowd of darkies approaching
nd started to chase them. Loui
|apuyard got in their way and receiv
ID a ballet in the leg.
Later in the afternoon a negrl
mptied his pistol into a downtown
ouse and wounded a child. At 1
'clock a mob marched through Lafay
lite square, which is opposite the cit
all, and discovering some negroes Il
he park jumped on and beat then
Intil they made their escape. An hOu
fterwards q white man saw a negri
lamed Ross at the corner of Lafayett
nd Dryades street and fired his gu
It him. Those on the street fed il
very direction and the negro mad
lis escape. Shortly after l o'cloc
Josephine Wild, a child, while seate
n front Of her home, caught a stra
,ullet i'm the knee.
One of the most sensational incident
# the day was the discovery Of tw
legroes badly wounded In a box cal
)nly one was conscious. He decline
o give any account of how the shoot
ng occurred. At2 o'clock an unknow
white man came along Julia stree
Near the corner of BarOnne he sa'
/ negro. and without any provocato
began to fire at him. The negro es
,aped, it is believed, without havin
)een hit
There is confined in the paris
prison Leonard Pierson, who was tn
nan with Charles when the latter she
and dangerously wounded Patrolma
Mora before he murdered Capt. Ia
and Patrolman Lamb. The mobs ths
have been going the rounds of th
,ity have been anxious to lynch Piei
son. Sheriff Klock assured both tn
mayor and chief of police that he ha
The Jail so well protected that it woul
require the use Of dynamite to reac
he culprit. Neither the sheriff nor III
chief of police, whose headquarters
located in the same building, Apr,
bend that any serious attempt will [
made to break into the Jail.
There is a report of the capture
the slayer Of Police Captai
Day, near this city. He will be prS
Iected and given a trial in court. III
being determined not
norrnif auv ivnching no matter bo