The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-16

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wherever they could be found and brutally
beaten. The blacks at first offered resist
ance. but they were so soon
that they fled without delay.
LIKE AT NEW ORLEANS.
For the next hour the streets were filled
with a r;oting. surging mob. 1t was a scene
of very much the same order as took place
a few days ago in New Orleans. New York
has seldom had its equal. The shouting of
the men, the shrieking of the women, the
lamentations of the children, the shooting
OF revolvers. crashing of windows and all
made a perfect pandemonium. The police
men in other parts did much clubbing but
the injured men were all negroes.
Lloyd Lee, of Thirty-seventh street Ind
Seventh avenue. was shot in the cheek.
received a scalp wound and a broken arm.
He said a policeman had shot and dubbed
him.
John Mallory. a young negro, and a
student in a civil engineer class, was go
with Gordon Jones. another student about
his age. The gang jumped on them at
Thirty-seventh street and Ninth avenue.
Mallory was knocked down. A policeman
heard him yelling and managed to get him
on an uptown car. He told him to go TO a
hospital. Just then another policeman ran
up, pulled Mallory from the car and began
TO club him. The passengers on the car
his assault. Mallory managed to drag
himself aboard the car and got TO Roose-
welt Hospital. He was a pitiful sight. His
condition is serious.
A negro got off an Eighth-avenue car at
Twenty-seventh street Inc was attacked.
The policeman on the corner charged the
crowd and by firing revolvers into the air
rescued the negro.
In charging through Thirty-SeVenth
street and driving the mob before it. the
negroes in the began to throw
things at the mob and police. The police
men at once fired into the upper windows
and drove the black heads into hiding.
Whether anybody was hit by the bullets
OF not is not known. A fusillade was fired.
Spencer Walters, twenty-four years Of
age. a negro of So East Fffty-sixth street,
was alleged to have tried to shoot Thomas
] Healy In Thirty-seventh street. Walters
was a wreck when placed under arrest. He
was dangerously hurt.
Richard Williams, twenty-four years old,
a negro of East Thirty-sixth street, was
charged by John Gill with having pulled n
revolver on him.. The crowd believed Gill,
for they tried to kill Williams. They al
most succeeded.
POLICEMAN STABBED.
Policeman Kennedy. of the West Thirty
seventh-street station, was stabbed in the
arm and breast. A negro named Lloyd Lee
WdS IcSlc lOi lit SldbDlllS. Lee anu dill
other negro. David H. Tarr. were near the
corner where Kennedy was stabbed. The
crowd set upon Lee, who drew a revolver
and knife in self-defense. When the po-
licemen saw this and somebody shouted
that Lee stabbed Kennedy, the policemen
themselves attacked Lee with their clubs.
Lee got out of the tangle somehow, and
was chased to a nearby roof, where he
was dubbed into submission. He was taken
to Bellevue more dead than alive. Later a
policeman called at Bellevue Hospital and
ldentlfled Lee as the man who stabbed Po-
liceman Kennedy. Tarr was also arrested
after he got a severe drubbing.
Joseph Locket, a negro cigar maker, ap-
peared during the riot. The crowd set upon
him and his face was literally cut into rib
bons.
Chief Devery was at his home, right in
the heart of the battle ground, but did not
take charge of the police at once. He
nnally took personal command. The police
said the negroes were rapidly arming with
revolvers and knives. They say that nearly
all the prisoners had weapons of some sort.
"A negro riding up Broadway on a bicycle
was pulled from his wheel and severely
beaten. The mob then took the wheel and
smashed Il.
Many negroes were hustled into the West
Th1rty-seventh-street station for protection.
None had escaped without some kind of an
injury and some of them were bleeding
from half a dozen cuts.
The crowd that surged into Broadway
seemed uglier than that further west.
There were at one time more than five
thousand persons in Broadway. Up and
down into and out of hotels and saloons.
through Herald square and the side streets
the mob surged and rushed, looking for
negroes. Any unfortunate black was set
upon and beaten.
Chief Devery said he would take every
precaution for preventing a recurrence of
the outbreak.
A dozen negroes employed in the Hotel
Cadillac got through with their work and
tried to go home. The first one out of the
door was set on by fifty or more newsboys,
de fed back into the hotel and. with q
broom. knocked down two of the bows. A
policeman then charged the crowd.
Policeman Edward Gibson was chasing
some Of the boys through Long Acre
square. when ff-teen-year-old Frank Min
ogue tried 10 get between Gibson's legs
and trip him. Gibson swung his club and
broke the boys arm He was the first
white arrested. george Walker, a colored
vocalist. was beaten, but escaped. Clar.
ence Logan, a negro, was terribly beaten.
Four white men were arrested: Henry Mil
Ter, t~wenty-four years old; John Shilax
twenty-five years: John Benson. thirty-one
years, and Henry Martin. twenty-eighl
years.