New-York tribune., 1900-08-16


what had become of his companion, Gordon
Jones
a negro got of an Eighth-ave. car at Twenty
seventh-st and was attacked The policemen
on the corner charged the crowd. and by firing
revolvers into the air rescued the negro.
While the police were charging through
Thirty -seventh-st and driving the mob before
them the negroes in the 5tenements began 10
throw things at the mob and police Tne po-
icemen at once fred into the upper windows
Whether anybody hit by the bullets or not
unknown. A fusillade was fred, and II none
5f the bullets struck home IL was wonderful
Spender Walters twenty-four years old.
negro of No. 63 East Fifty y-siNth-st., was al
leged TO have tried to shoot Thomas ]. Heay,
~ No 401 Fast Fighty-f1rst-st in Thirty-sev-
snth-st. between Eighth and Ninth aves
Walters wreck when placed under arrest
He dangerously hurt.
Richard Williams. twenty-four years old,
negro of No. AIS West Thrty-siXth-st., was
charged by John Gill OK NO. o5s Mest Ft,tS hi,
siXth-st-, with having pulled a revolver on hln
The crowd believed Gill. for they tried TO XIII
Williams. They almost succeeded:
Policeman Barrett ordered John Gaynor'
eighteen years old. of No. $50 West Fifty third
ST. TO get off Seventh-ave. and Forty-hrst-st
Barrett saws Gaynor attacked him with knife
Gaynor is now in Bellevue with so many cuts
In his face that he cannot see.
Policeman Kennedy of the West Thirty sew
snth-st. station, was stabbed in the breast and
arm at Seventh-ave. and Thirty -seventh-st.
negro by the name of Lloyd Lee was arrested
for the stahbing. Lee and another negro David
II. Tarr. of No. 250 West Thirty -eghth-str were
near the corner where Kennedy was stabbed.
The crowd set upon Lee who drew revolver
and knife in self-defence. When the pollceTneh
saw this and somebody had shouted that Lee
stabbed Kennedy. the policemen themselves at
tackled Lee with their clubs. Lee got out of the
tang,e somehow. and was chased 10 a nearby
roof where he was clubbed into submission.
He was taken TO Bellevue more dead than alive
Later policeman called al Bellevue and identi-
fed Lee the man who had stabbed Policeman
Kennedy. Tarr also arrested after he got
q severe drubbing. 90,
John Locket, a negro cigarmaker. OF No. 323
West ThIrty-seventh hist, appeared at Eighth-
and Thirty-seventh-st. in the course OF the
riot. The crowd set upon him. anu his race was
literally cut into ribbons When he was brought
to the West Thirty -seventh-st- station a prison
er one Of the policemen there remarked:
That's my bird. I nearly got even with him
for stabbing Kennedy Loc1et was sent to
Bellevue
CHASED INTO BROADWAY
In charging the crowd through Thirty-sev-
enth-st. the police were aided by negro who
darted out Of a Thirty -seventh-st. doorway.
The mob. instead OF resisting the police. started
after the negro. and chased him toward Broad
way. He managed TO get into the side entrance
and out through Broadway. evading the crowd.
A band was playing in front Of the Marlbor-
ouGh, serenading Captain Lally, OF the Fire De-
pertinent at the time, and a large crowd nad
gathered. The two crowds came together. and
nigccr chase That thoroughfare was soon
ablaze with a rioting mob of two hundred or
three hundred, and the police had all they could
do 10 disperse the crowd.
heart Of the battle-ground. but did not take
charge of the police at once. he hnally TOOK
personal command. Inc ponce @ sdId ole LeeIoe' i
were rapidly arming with reFolVer3 ana knives.
They say that nearly all the prisoners had
weapons of some sort
A negro riding up Broadway on bicycle was
pulled from his wheel and severely beaten. The
mob then took the wheel and smashed it into
scrap iron.
Many negroes were hustled into the West Thir-
ty-seventh-st. station for protection. None had
escaped some kind Of an injury and some Of
6iro FrNr ha1
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 the
hotels and saloons. through Herald Square and
the side streets, the mob surged and rushed,
looking for negroes Any unfortunate black man
was set upon and beaten.
SALOONS ORDERED CLOSED.
The crowds driven of Sixth. Seventh and
Eighth aves found hiding in the numerous sa-
looms of that district, and Chief Devery, as
precaution ordered every saloon from Twen-
tieth-st. TO Forty-second-st and from Sixth-ave
over 10 Ninth-ave. closed. This proved wise
Up TO ! o'clock this morning not single white
had been reported under arrest. Chief
Devery said he would take every precaution to-
day for preventing repetition Of the outbreak.
The police force in the district Will be trebled
and quadrupled If necessary. and he says any
policeman found showing anything but de-
termination to enforce the law will be dismissed
instantly from the force. There are thousands
OF negroes in the neighDOrhOOd or IhirtY-SeV-
enth-st. and seventh-ave. They have many sa-
looms and resorts there and some of the blacks
Of that vicinity have bad regulations
a dozen negroes employed in the Hotel Cadil-
lac got through with their work at 1-o'clock this
morning and tried TO go home. The first one
out Of the door was set upon by fifty or more
newsboys. He fed back into the hotel and
with broom Knocked two Of the boys down
A policeman then charged the crowd. Police
man Edward Gibson chasing Of the
boys through Longacre Square, when fifteen
year-cld Frank Minogue, of No. 250 West
Thirty-hfth-st tried to get between Gibson's
legs and trip him. Gibson swung his club and
broke the boys arm. He set UP yell and
taken TO nearby drugstore DR.. H. o. Clauss.
fracture and the boy was locked up in the West
Forty -seventh-st. police station He the
nrst, white person arrested.
BY the advice Of the police the Cadillac en-
ployes decided not TO try to go home, and re-
mained all night in the hotel
FLED INTO A RESTAURANT.
: negro got off a Forty -second-st car at
Broadway and was surrounded by mob which
came out OF Seventh-ave The negro was at
tackled. but escaped into Shaney's restaurant.
The place was filled, ard the advent of the
bleeding negro with the yelling of the mob al
most caused panic The fugitive was secreted
ord the restaurant doors were locked against
any more OF his kind
George Walker, the colored vocalist Of the
team Of Williams and Walker. and Clarence
Logan both negroes. were on a southbound
Boardway car at l O'Clock. At Thirty-third st.
the car was surrounded and both were pulled
from II Walker was beaten. but escaped into
Trainor's Hotel Logan down SiXth-ave.
with mob after him and was terribly beaten
He nnaly got into a drug store. which the pro-
prtetor locked and kept the mob out Of Acting
Captain Burns arrived about this time and
charged the mob. The policemen under Burns's
command used their clubs with all their power
and several were lcid low. Four white men
were arrested. There were no negroes in ejobt
The prisoners were Henry Miller tyventv-four
years old. Of No 12l East Thirteenth-st: John
snilaX, twenty five years old of No. 80 West