The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26

ONE BEAD; MANY lyS||
Only lack OF Leadership Prevented
Wholesale Lynching of Colored People
Many Acts of redation-Lynch-
ings Averted.

New Orleans, July 27.-There was
rioting. for three hours, as result of
which one negro is dead, a white news
boy is dying, six negroes are in the
hospital badly beaten and wounded
and several white persons are suffer-
ing from injuries inflicted by stray
bullets during the excitement. The
casualties SO far reported are as fol-
lows: Killed Unidentified negro. In
jured: John Deeds, white, aged %
years; shot in both hands; Charles
Moyle, white, laborer, shot in the
knee; George Morris, colored, badly
beaten; Isaac Mcmahon, white, aged
15 years, shot in lnlgh; Alex Rufin,
colored, bruised and beaten, T. b,
Sanders. colored, cut and bruised;
Daniel White, colored, badly bruised
Mob Bent on Lynching.
The mob was formed for the purpose
of lynching the negro Pierce, who was
with the missing murderer Charles on
Monday night and who shot Officer
Mora. In the fight with these negroes
Captain Day and Officer Lamb We're
killed. A mass meeting was held
near the union depot at O'clock at
which inflammatory speeches We're
made, those who tried to counsel mod
Grafton being howled down. Then the
crowd marched up St. Charles avenue
firing pistols and beating negroes, md
out Washington avenue to Douglass
Square, near the scene of the murder
of Captain Day. BY this time the mob
had been increased to about 1000
Speeches were made and the crowd
started for the parish prison, chasing
negroes out of Poydras market, and
helping themselves to pistols from the
secondhand stores in Dyades street
Mayor Makes Quieting Speech.
At the parish prison they were re-
ceived by acting Mayor Mehle, ex-
Mayor John Fitzpatrick, about fifty
officers, Sheriff Klock and forty armed
deputies. Mehle and Fitzpatrick made
pacifying speeches, and the police told
the crowd to move on, and they pro.
ceeded to Storyville.
negro sections and kept the dwindling
crowd moving, but at the corner of
Custom House and Villerie streets
negro employe of a tenderloin restau-
rant was killed About this time most
OF the men, who at no time had any
the negroes, began to go home, and
the crowd of boys that Remained split
up and marched through different
streets, making a good deal of noise,
but doing little damage. There were,
however, many acts of depreciation.
The principal one was the breaking
into and rifing CT secondhand store.
tPistols and ammunition were taken, to
eEhieh the s)aszA made no objection.
but When he protested against the SELF
ins of jeTelry and sundry other afti-
Gle he was set upon and very badly
beaten. The result is that his wife, who
was in delicate condition, will prob!
ably die.
Chinese Not Molested.
The street car lines managed to have
inspectors wherever the mob was apt
to cross line and forced negroes to
leave the cars. 1t was well they did,
for cars were searched for the blacks.
Singularly enough, the mob passed
dozen laundry shops, in which indus
trious Cinnamon ironed away, without
so much as moments pause, and not.
an overt act was committed against
them. There seems to have been no
leader at any time, and the authorities
cefrained from dispensing the mob only
because it was feared fight might
ensue that would result in more blood
shed than would result from merely
keeping them moving. About mid
night the streets were quiet again, the
last Of the marauders having held up
the street cars for transportation to
their homes. A railroad man named
Scott was active in urging on the crowd
and he may be arrested for melting
.iot.