The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-17
It Surpassed Anything The City Had Ever
Encountered.
Ill KINDS OF MISSILES WERE USED
The Greatest Excitement Prevailed
and several Negroes We're In
jured, One Being shot

were on duty and ambulances from every
hospital on the West Side were ken.
busy A police estimate of the results
puts the number of wounded at fifty, tho
number of arrests forty. The most desper-
ate hand to- hand fight during the riot
was between Detective John Kennedy and
the negro Lloyd Lee. Lee acted like
a mailman when Kennedy ordered him TO
move on. Refusing to do so, he said to
Kennedy: Il know you. You are Thorpes
partner. l have been laying for you,
ana at the same time he slashed Kennedy
Ia the shoulder. iniiicting a deep wound.
Kennedy pulled his revolver and fired
tour shots. One bullet went through
Lees Jaw. Policemen came running from
dinerent directions and went IN search
of Lee. In the search another negro,
David H. Carr, got terrible beating, AMI
when he was taken to Bellevue IL was
found he had a fractured skull, frac-
tured arm and a battered face. Kennedy
was taken to Bellevue where he ltelti-
lied Lee as his assailant. Captain Cooney
and Kennedy say Lee threatened sew
cral days ago to do" Kennedy because
the latter was Tho-pe's partner.
Nni.e Kennedy aud Lee were In the
struggle word was sent 20 Captain
II
This Intensified the excitement among
the reserves. who rushed from The sta
uoA and charged down the street. In
doing SO they encountered mobs of whites
at various points, In making an indis-
criminate charge upon the mob negro
Was discovered. He started 30 run and
the mob and the reserves close behind,
gave chase. The negro ran into The MARI
borough hotel and escaped through the
citice into Broadway ami this added 10
tho excitement
,iroups had gathered at various points
along Broadway AMI we're discue las the
riot When they saw the negro coming
out Of the Marlborough, the groHps quickly
arglmilatcd with tae mob and the chase
was continued until 1t s2emed as II the
entire disorder and riot had been trans
ierred from the place OF beginning %
broadway.
wherever negro was eeen he was
on the run, whether he ha1 been a pr
ticipant in the riot or not. This was inc
case OF one who ran out Of side street
near Forty second street. chuspd ny II
mob The negro ran into Shanlcy's res
taurant one OF the fashionable uptown
cafes The place was filled wi.h peope.
many OF whom were women The latttr
Jumped from their tables and at empt
10 make exits wherever there WIS nh
open door or window. Their escorts tol-
lowed endeayoring TO assauge their excite
meut The sight OF he fugitive ncgrn
covered with blood only intensified tho
s.citement OF the women, VINO escap d
from the cafe only to find Themselves Ia
the midst OF a mob bowling for blood
Some OF the patrons OF the cafe ~nG
were ~ning mp stairs We're. with dhhcu''
~, restrained from jumping out oil me
windows
The negro who had created this sean
hn pt
aegro named walker. one Of the theaIrl
cal team of Williams and Walker Wa'
seen on a Broadway car. dragged OIL an.
given a beating His companion escaped
but not until after he had received Sc
we're drubbing, Acting Captain Burns o
the West Thirtieth street station arrive,
with a squad and arrested four white mon
the first whites of the rio; to be arrested
This was after / o'clock this morning.
At o'clock this morning the police ha'
the riot in hand. although there WAS
feeling that danger was far from past
asa a heavy police guard was mounted
Wherever there were negroes collecte.
together they were swearing vengeance
Fortunately about 3 o'clock there was
heavy downpour of rain, and II Is tn
opinion OF the police that this did NOR
to dispense the mob and quiet the rio
than thousand men would have bee
able TO do
Chief Devery said today: III any ma
in a police uniform does anything NOR
han enforce the law he will be dismisse
instantly. This has been an unfortunat
outbreak. but It won't happen AGAIN.
The police say that few II any rae
riots in this city have compared With tina
Of last night so far as the logged de
termination OF those who participated
concerned.
At 4 o'clock. when II was thought n wa
T..IN H. f.,1.
the West Thlrtieth street station NGr
assaulted with a shower OF bricks an
bottles thrown by negroes on the roc
Of a house. The crowd from the Stree
rushed up the stairway. but by he tim
they reached the roof the assailants hn
descended through scuttles and had DIS
appeared. Two negroes were later pulle
from under bed They resisted unit
dubbed over the head. and one hal hi
nose broken. The men denied that the
were on tho roof Richard Harris wa
badly beaten up on account OF a repor
that he was the man who had murdere
Thorpe 1t was discovered later that nj
was mistake. However as he had
dangerous looking shoemaker's knife /
his sleeve. he was arrested.
The reserves OF the station which ha
been on duty nearly all night. were Gale
In during the morning and after o'cloc
all was comparatively quiet.
All OF the prisoners arrested In the rio
last night except Lee. were arraignei /
the West Side court today 4 majorit
we're fined $40, a few were held in bond
TO keep the peace. several were dis
charged. and Carr was held TO await tn
result OF the injuries OF officer Kennel,
inspector Thompson. With 100 poliseme
In addition to the several hundred rey,iig
men In the precinct affected was on tn
ground in the riotous district hefor
rightfall, and he kept his men on IN
move. They had orders to arrest an
lnan-black or whlte--wbo eylncsd III
slightest deposition toward riot. m
danser spot was recognized TO be aroun
th9 West Thirty-seventh street siatiol
In Tnlrty-sxth Thlrty-seventh, Thirt,
eighth and Thirty-ninth streets are man
large negro tenements, Everybody WI
kept on the move Early In tbs evenln
the patrolmen began to bring In prison
ers- William Elliott. colored Fl yea,
old. IVES arrested for buying a rcyolye
He declined to surrender the weapon on
was arrested. On the way 10 the static
he resisted and the policeman used h
club. When Elliott was brought into n
station he was bleeding from two seal
wounds and was hardly able to talk
Hardley Johnson a neg-o porter wa
seen WITH a loaded revolver in troll,
car Policeman Gaynor Jumped ON n
car and jerkad Johnson out Of n m
negro tried To use his weapon hut Ga,