Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-26
Revenge Causes Scenes of Brutal Vio-
= lence in New Orleans.
KEGROESATTACKED WHEREVERFOUND
Bands of Infuriated Men Destroy
Lives and Property.
D FAD AND NDED

NEW ORLEANS. July 26.-After being
in the hands Of lawless mobs for several
hours. with the police apparently powerless
to maintain order, New Orleans at daybreak
again assumed peaceful aspect and the
mob apparently had spent its fury. after
one man had been killed. three fatally and
fourteen seriously wounded.
The dead-Unknown negro. dubbed and
shot to death in Custom House street.
Fatally intured-Louis Hughes. colored,
shot four times in abdomen. head, left arm
and right hand; Baptiste F1lean, colored,
aged seventy-five, employed in the French
market, shot in neck; Joseph Nelson. me-
gro. driver. skull fractured.
The injured-T. p. Saunders, colored aged
thirty-five years, porter stab wound in the
side and a gunshot wound in the right knee;
Esther Fields, colored. aged forty-five years.
severe cash on head: Oswald Mcmahon,
white. aged sixteen years. laborer. shot
through right thigh; Frank Shepherd,
white, aged forty-two years, shot in the
right forearm: Alex. Rufrman. Pullman
palace car porter shot in the left shoulder;
Jos. Deeds, white. stabbed in both hands:
F. G. Davis, motorman. shot in the right
leg; j. Cluny, conductor. clubbed and arms
badly injured: Jos. Lewis. colored aged
eleven, confused wounds Of head. caused
by beating with base ball bat; George Nor
ris. colored, two cuts on head and g1Inshot
wound in the leg: Daniel White colored
gunshot wound of the left wrist; Henry
Daurin white, gunshot wound OF the left
leg; VIM. Armstrong, negro, shot in left
thigh; unknown baker, white, shot In the
leg.
Mayor Calls for Help.
A delegation of citizens today went to
city hall and asked the mayor either 10 call
out posse of citizens or appeal TO the gov
ernor TO order out the militia. His honor
decided Immediately to prepare a proclama,
ton calling for 500 volunteer citizens to as
sist the police in preserving order
The last disturbance occurred about 5
O'Clock, when a white baker. whose name
Is unknown, was shot in the leg while a
crowd OF rioters were chasing a gang OF
negroes The mayor. the police and cit
lzens arranged today to take precautions
against recurrence of last nights scenes OF
disorder. The mob WAS composed of bows
and hoodlums and was without leader
The roting grew out of the intense feeling
engendered by the murder Monday night OF
Captain Day and Patrolman Lamb and the
wounding of Officer Mora by colored des-
perado. The better class of citizens today
expressed regret over the occurrences OF
the night, and declared that the mob in no
Sense represented the community at large.
General Attack on Negroes.
The assassination of Police Captain Day
and Officer Mora by the negro, Robert
Charles. brought about a condition of un-
rest in New Orleans, La. which last
night called for the placing on duty OF
many extra police officers and the CALL
ing out Of company of militia to aid them
In preserving order.
Several suspected negroes arrested in the
suburbs yesterday proved not to be Charles,
and the police have been unable to find
any trace of the negro. A quiet tip was
gotten out last evening for a maas meet
ing at Lee Circle, and. while there were
no leaders or prominent citizens In the
crowd, il swelled to several thousand peo-
pie, who began a march to the scene of the
crime, attacking all the negroes who could
be found A number Were shot at and
several are reported wounded. Chief Gas.
ter and every available policeman, as well
as the militia, hastened to the vicinity and
succeeded in preventing general riot
though 1t could not suppress the lawless-
ness.
At 10 o'clock last night the mob changed
its course, and began a march on the par
ish prison, with the avowed intention OF
lynching the negro, Pierce, who was with
Charles on Monday night and shot officer
Mora. The prison is well entrenched.
The mob reached the prison and found
the police ready. 1t satisfied itself by
shooting into street cars, wounding a num-
ber of people, white as well as black. al
though the wounding of whites was acci-
dental Several shops were broken into
before the mob dispersed.
Mayor Capdevielle communicated with
Gov Heard, who will Immediately call out
the mllltary to preserve order.