, 1900-07-27
A new ORLEANS row
BLOODTHIRSTY MOB OF YOUNG
HOODDUMS EXTERMIN-
ATING NEGROES.
Several Were Fatally Shot and Club
bed to Death-All Night Reign of
T~error-Black Men Everywhere
Clubbed and Beaten-Killing of Po-
licemen Started the Mob.

licemen Started the Mob. -
New Orleans, July 25.-After beinj
in the hands of the lawless mobs 70
several hours, with the police apparent
ly powerless to maintain order, New
Orleans at ~daybreak again assumed
peaceful and orderly condition, the VIC
lence apparently finally ceased. TIL,
last disturbance occurred about
o'clock, when a white baker, Whose
name is unknown, was shot in the leg
while a crowd of rioters were chasing
a gang OF negroes. The mayor, police
and citizens are arranging today tc
take precautions against a recurrence
Of last nights scenes of disorder. The
mob was composed of boys and hood.
lums and was without a leader. The
rioting grew out Of the intense feeling
e%ngendered by the murder Of Captain
Day and Patrolman Lamb and the
wounding of Officer Mora by Despera-
do Charles. The occurrences of last
night are greatly deplored by the best
elements Of the community. They rep
resented in no sense an uprising of an
outraged community against wrong.
One man was killed, three others will
die and fifteen we're wounded.
All last night and up to $3.50 o'clock
this morning mobs ran riot through
this city on a hunt for negroes, and
those u~nfortunates who fell into their
grasp were either killed or so badly
wounded that they were left for dead.
After the mobs got started the negroes
became terrorized and took shelter in
their homes and the outhouses Of white
people, who protected them, so 1t was
only the unsuspecting and i%noffensive
negroes who were the victims.
The police were powerless. As fast
as they apparently dispersed a crowd in
n section it only reformed and NOV
ed to some other point to continue its
devilish work.
The mobs were composed almost en-
tlrely Of boys under 81 years of age,
and they had no leaders, but acted on
a common impulse. The movement
started from a gathering Of men at the
Lee statue, corne of st. Charles ave-
nue. and Howard street. Being order
ed to dispense the crowd moved up St.
Charles street, gathering force as 1t
went, and gradually becoming inflamed
to the point Of desperation. 1t was not
until after they had stopped in Morri-
son square on Washington avenue and
Franklin street, near the scene of the
assassination Of Captain Day and Off,
Ger Lamb, that they listened to a
speech from a man hailing from Ken
ner, and then started out to waylay
the negroes. Most of the colored popu-
lation had taken warning from the ex-
citement Of the night before and kept
indoors, but there we're some return
ing to their homes from work, and 1t
was one of these who was the first vic
tim. 1t was in a crowded Henry Clay
avenue car, when the mob saw him,
and rushed for him and dragged him
out, firing n shot in the car. He
turned out to be Alex Rufin, a Pullman
a porter, and he was baby used up.
He vas cut and shot and beaten over
the head. There was another negro
with him in the car, but hid under the
seat, and after the car had started they
discovered him, but could not catch
1t.
]. Cluney, the conductor Of a Peters
avenue car, was shot in the riot. and
the car riddled with bullets.
F. G. Davis. the motorman on the
same car, was shot in the foot.
Frank Sheppard, a white man who
was in the crowd, got a bullet through
his right arm.
Coming down to Jackson venue the
mob met T. P. Sanders, the colored
porter OF Post and Bowles insurance
agency. He had heard the indiscrimin-
ate shooting and stepped out Of his
gate to see what it was about. He
stepped into the arms of the mob, and
they made short work Of him. They
stabbed him, shot him in the back anu
took his watch away from him. They
left him for dead. A dozen or ofe
of the mob went further into the rear
Of town, and met a negro named Es-
Their Fields standing in her door and
brttally beat her.
The main crowd continued ON down
town, heading for the parish prison.
They we're met a block away by a squad
police. who stopped them. They then
began breaking into the secondhand
stores on Rampant street In that neigh
borhood. hunting for arms and ammu-
milton. The police made a demonstra-
tion and drove them OF. After linger-
ing around Rampant street for an hour
the mob divided, ono section going
down town and the other starting back
up town. The latter crowd started for
the New Basin in the vicinity Of the
Illinois Central depot, ~ the most pop
ulaf rendezvous for negroes. Before
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