Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-08-17
RACES IN A FIERCE RIOT.
Wild Excitement in New York
City Streets.
SCORES OF NEGROES INJURED.
Rioting tho Outgrowth Of tho Murder
Of y West Side Policeman Last Sum
day-Fighting Over Large District
Police Reserves Called Upon.

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Police Reserves Called Upon.
New York, Aug. I.-Negroes and
men in a fierce racial riot seethed
through the streets of the center of
New York. The center of the minia-
ture war was Eighth avenue and
Thirty fourth street. but the conflict
radiated in all directions from this
junction and pitched battles were on
every corner for blocks.
Scores Of Negroes Injured.
Staggering mobs gave chase to soil
aary negroes, pulled them from door
ways, cable cars and other refugees,
oeat them into insensibility in most
cases, and in at least one instance at
tempted lynching. That the victim
Is alive is due to the fact that there
was no good place to fasten the rope
Sixty or perhaps hundred negroes
we're injured more or less severely, a
dozen white men were battered up
and Detective Kennedy was carved up
by a razor-wielding negro and is now
in the New York hospital dangerously
wounded, and two other policemen
we're injured. For many hours the po-
lice reserves from four stations were
charging upon the rioters. and police
patrol wagons and ambulances lined
The thoroughfares where the thickest
Of the fight was on. This force be-
came inadequate, and before midnight
Chief Devery at the head of hundreds
If reserves struggled to secure control
Of the turbulent and increasing mob.
Partial List of the Injured.
Here is a partial list Of the injured:
Policeman John Kennedy, stab wound
in left side, Bellevue hospital; Lloyd
w. Lee, colored, two pistol shot
wounds, lacerated wounds about
head, face and body, Bellevue; James
H. Cook, colored, scalp wound, Belle
yue; Richard Williams, colored, lac
Grated wounds, face, Bellevue: Albert
Sanders, colored, scalp wound, Belle
yue: William Devan, colored, lacerated
wounds, Bellevue; George White, col
ored, hip wound, Bellevue; Alfred Elk
ms, colored, scalp wound, Bellevue:
Jesse Paine, colored. scalp wound,
Bellevue; Chester Smith, colored, scalp
wound, Bellevue: Henry Rudd, col
ored. scalp wound. Bellevue; James j.
Lockett, colored. scalp wound, Belle
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wound. Bellevue.
Reserves Called Out.
All of the saloons in the vicinity
were closed by the police and the
! half-intoxicated men were turned into
| the street to become a part Of the
| mobs that were hunting black men.
The trouble spread from 33d street to
44th street and from 9th avenue to
| 9Th avenue, and before the disturbance
had been quelled reserves had been
called out from every station between
Charles street and 125th street. Po-
liceman Thorpe was murdered last
Sunday morning while attempting to
arrest woman. His slayer was col
ored man, and since then the police
have been making a search Of the
negro district for the murderer. This
excited the negroes to the point OF
panic, and for two or three days
there have been mild disturbances.
The wake was held at the home of Po-
liceman Thorpe Wednesday evening"
Two white women were passing and
one said: "Theres where they are
holding the wake for the policeman
who was killed by niger.
Resents q Woman's Remark.
A negro overheard the remark and
drew a revolver and started apparent
w to shoot at the women. but he was
disarmed. The riot, however, had
been started, and from that hour till
long after midnight the war was car
ried on through the avenues OF the
city and into the hotels. Cars In
Broadway and Sth avenue were
stopped by the mob and terror-strick-
en- negroes were dragged to the street
to be beaten and kicked by the angry
whites. All the weapons of a mob
were employed on both sides-pistols,
razors, clubs, bottles and stones were
freely used.
Late at night an Eighth avenue car
passed up the avenue. On it were
several negroes. The mob dragged
the negroes off. The negroes had no
chance when they reached the street.
Every white man in the crowd tried
to get at black man. BY liberal use
of the club the mob was scattered and
quiet was restored. Up to L O'Clock
seventeen arrests had been made.