The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-28

stuck to the upper pert Of the building as
long ea be could fer the belt was badly
sccrche1 by the flames. The police took
charge OF tho body. The mob insisted on
turning Il, and for some time a struggle
tbots place between them and the police,
but the latter finally succeeded in securing
the body and taking it to the morgue. 1t
Was found us4 it was shot all to pieces
and the skull crushed In.
On the person we're several papers which
proved that the man was Charles although
he was known in the house TO the other
negroes by the name of Robert Jackson.
Only one negro was found in the burning
building after Charles was killed. He was
q yourg negro named Ford from Brook
Haven. Miss, and had been badly wounded
in the back.
There were probably fifty negroes in the
row when Porteous and Laliy entered. At
the first pistol shot they scattered in all
directions a number of them took re-
fuge in a building just opposite. As the
mob was threatening the negroes the po-
hce thought 1t best to remove them. A
negro named Silas Jackson, said to be p
brother of the murderer. was taken from
the building He had dressed himself in
womal's clothing to escape the mob. A
dozen pistol shots were fred at him one
striking him in the head, intiscting dan
gerous and perhaps fatal wound.
A second negro. Charles Jackson taken
from the house, met with an even worse
fate. The police, to the number of fifty
surrounded him so that he could not be
attacked without injuring them, but some
one in tho crowd polIed his Winchester in
among the officers and fired, and the ne
gro fell dead among the police with his
brains blown out 1t was then thought
best to bring no more of the other negroes
1xHFlz ~-Ta-r
ing larger and larger and becoming more ex-
cited and paid no attention to the police
TIL the mayor ordered his special officers
to the scene and the crowd was soon dis
persed.
An Aged woman Killed
A mob OF forty men largely armed with
rifles weot to house on Rousseau Street
early this morning to look for negroes
named Minor who were regarded rs dan
geSous men. They set fire to the house.
and broke in the windows. 4 young negro
named HSorey, and his wife, who occu-
pied the front room, were badly beaten
by the mob as they ran out The mob
then fired some twenty shots into the
building One Of them struck Hanna Ma
brey an aged negress, who was lying IN
the bed, inlifcting a wound from which she
died soon after. The mob fed as soon as
the special officers came in sight. -Four
OF the ringleAders were arrested TINS morh-
ing charged with murder.
In all ffty-two arrests have been made
of the rioters. who viii be given the full
penalty of the law. The unknown negro
who WAS murdered by the mob wednesday
night was identified today as August
Thomas, an enploye OF The City Railroad
Company. He was quiet and Industrious
negro. and owned his home. Lewis Tay-
lcr, who was shot Wednesday night, also
died today. An unknown negro was killed
By the moo in the French Market tonight.
The unknown negro found in box car
OF the IlIinois Central Railroad also died
today. This Eskss seven negroes dead
as q result OF the riot.
Nathan Brown, who was found in the
same boxcar with the unknown negro, is
hcpelessly wounded and may die at any
moment There are two other negroes very
dangerously wounded. Charles Washington
and James Nelson, but they may recover.
Fifteen negro men and one negro woman
were seriously but not dangerously wound
ed. number of enquiries were made Of
the mayor today for negroes who have been
missing since Tuesday night, but they are
supposed to be in hiding and not injured.
More negroes turned up for work today
than yesterday. but a large majority
deemed it prudent to keep at home. Under
instruction from Judge Baker the grand
jury today took up the investigation Of
the riot and will find indictments against
all those known to have taken part in it.
Died From His Wounds.
Another victim OF Charles deadly rifle
died at 10 O'Clock tonight, in the Charity
Hospital. He Is H Il. Bates, aged sixty
five. Bates was in a cart with the young
Italian Frank Bertucci, passing at the
time the shooting began. Charles, after he
nod L 11I Tolf
stairs to the second story. sprang from
there on the shed and opened fire. A ball
struck Bates in the chest, passing through
nis lungs, and g second ball struck down
Bertucci
This makes FIVE white men already killed
today by Charles fire, Porteous, Lally.
Bloomfield, Van I1uren. and Bates. Of the
wounded. LecIerc and Evans are fatally
injured. The others viii recover.
In consequence Of the intense excitement
Mayor CaDdeyeille concluded to increase
the volunteer force to !. 500 and to call out
zhe entire militia, .S0o more, fearing that
the killing Of five white men would ex-
cite the mob to renewed attacks on the
negroes. The militia and specials were
distributed =: some thirty points through
out the city for an emergency call. To-
night the mayor issued a proclamation
prohibiting the assembling of all crowds
e-1A o4ueftAB lne ponce 10 Ol5peFSe l0e
crowds at ary cost.
As soon as the news of the killing Of
Charles WIS learned. however, the negroes
all disappeared from the streets. with the
exception. of onc unfortunate, an unknown
negro. He was seen in the French Market
by some whites and chased out Gallatin
Street. but was stabbed to death as he ran
into house.
As Charles had record of having
killed two negroes in Mississippi before
moving to New Orleans. and has killed
eight white men here in four days, 1t
brings his record up 60 ten, with two more
likely to die from his shooting.
The splendid Thomy L2fon School, on
Sixth and Franklin Streets, was set on
Ere by tho mob in the fury against the
negroes. Tho school IS the finest negro
school In New Orleans, and was erected
With money left by the negro philan-
throoist, Thomy Lsfon, who bequeathed
a fortune OF sso6. 600, divided equally be-
tween charities for the whites and negroes.
The school accommodated 800 colored chill
dren-
At l O'Clock a m. the school had been
burned to the ground. A mob has just
set fre to thirty tenement houses occu-
pied by negroes at Tchoupitoulas and
AmeIia Streets and they are now In
flames