The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-17
FIFTY WERE INJURED
NEW YoRK's RACE RIOT WAS THE
WORST IN YEARS.
WEAPONS WITHOUT STINT.
WHITES AND NEGROES WE'RE
GREATLY INFLANED.

His InjurIes-A Policeman Is Also
Seriously Hurt-PIstOIs, Razors,
Knives, CIubs and Rocks Used in
the Desperate Encountcrs-RiOtinE
Was Finally Suppressed by Rain
and the Police.
New York, Aug. 16-Such a furious
ebuliition of race hatred as found vent
in the rioting that occurred here last night.
the outgrowth of the murder few days
ago of Policeman Thorpe by negro
named Arthur Harris, had not been
equl,ed in New York in many years.
As a result of the disturbance, which
ragged from midnight dntil o'clock, and
burst out in "a flame of passion and vio-
lence at intervals until daybreak, there
were about fifty persons injured by pistol
balls. razors or knives, rocks or clubs.
OF these one negro, Lloyd Lee. may not
recover. and Policeman Kennedy is also
seriously injured.
Lee is alleged to have made threats
against the life of Kennedy because he
was the particular friend and associate
/ OF InOfDc, the muTutTtu Olltet- lHOi ile
was the third white man murderously as
saulted in the vicinity by negroes, after
race prejudice had been engendered. In
less than an hour from the time the
trouble began last night the whole of the
west side, from Twenty-eighth street 10
Longacre Square. above Forty-seeond
street. including Eighth and Ninth ave-
nues, was in an uproar Forty or more
arrests were made, four being white
men.
All of the prisoners except Lee, were
arraigned in the West Side Court to-day.
A majority were fined So; a few were
held in bonds to keep the peace; several
were discharged and Carr was held 10
await the result of the injuries of Otfcer
Kennedy. The magistrate stated in ad-
vance that all prisoners before him should
have a fair trial
At o'clock this morning the police had
the riot in hand, although there a
| feeling that danger was far from past,
| and a heavy police guard was mounted.
| Wherever there were negroes collected
| together they were swearing vengeance.
Fortunately about o'clock there was a
heavy downpour af rain. and 1t is the
opinion Of the police that this did more
to disperse the mob and quiet the riot
| than LOCO men would have been able
| to do
At 4 O'Clock, when IL was thought all
was over Policemen Hughes and Jelif of
the West Thirtieth street station were as
| saulted with n shower Of bricks and bot
ties thrown by the negroes on the roof of
a house The crowd from the street
| rushed up the stairway. but by The time
they reached the roof the assaiants had
descended through scuttles and had dis
appeared. Two negroes were later pulled
from under "A bed They resisted until
dubbed over the head, and one had his
nose broken. The men denied that they
were on the roof.
The reserves of the station which had
been on duty nearly all night. were
called in during the morning, and after
5 O'Clock all was comparatively quiet.
Tried 10 Hang IA Negro.
Many fights between whites and blacks
resulted tonight. Alexander Robbins,
negro and "A colored friend were on a
Thrty-fourth street car. Some one set
up shout the car neared Eighth ave-
nue., that the two negroes ought to be
lynched A man with a clothes line APP
peared from somewhere. and the two ne
groes were pulled off the car. The rope
was thrown around Robbins neck and.
with flfty men and boys pulling the mob
started for a lamp post squad of po-
lice appea red before the mob had gone
far, and with much clubbing they dispe -sed
the crowd. The negroes got away.
Word reached the West Forty-seventh
street station tonight that large mob
was at Eighth avenue and Forty-second
street. The reserves were run out and
dispersed tide crowd, whiCh numbered
over 600 persons.
mob was reported at Amsterdam ave-
nue. and Sixty-first street. better known
as San Juan Hill, at 10 o'clock A squad
# a,,l han
men, who were dispersed. riot call was
sent in from Thirty-seventh street and
Eighth avenue at 10 o'clock. Chief Dew
cry ordered Capt. Cooney to take large
squad and disperse the crowd. Cooney
found several hundred men and boys at
the corner mentioned and they were act
ing very ugly. The mob was charged
and many were dubbed
Patrolman Powers was arrested tonight
on the charge of being drunk and disor-
derly, and hourishing a revolver to in
cite the crowd to riot.
Inspector Thompson with 100 policemen
In addition TO the several hundred regu-
lar men in the precincts affected, was on
the ground in the riotous district before
nightfall, and he kept his men on the
move. They had orders to arrest any
man, white or black. who evidenced the
slightest disposition towards riot.
Early in the evening the patrolmen be-
gan to bring in prisoners. VIM. Elliott,
colored q years old, was arrested for
buying a revolver. He declined to sur
render the weapon and was arrested.
Inspector Thompson was near Eighth
avenue and Fortieth street when he no.
ticed a tumult aboard an Eighth avenue
car. He ran with couple Of men to in
vestigate and found that negro passen-
ger was the cause of the trouble. He
had not done anything, but several white
men tried to get in a punch at the black
man and two women tried 10 stab him
in the face with hat pins Inspector
Thompson arrived Just in time to see
, paving stone crash through the car win
dow and lay the negro QUE with a stun
ming blow on the head. Louis Swartz, IS
years old, threw the stone. He was ar
! rested.
: HARRRIs WAS ARRESTED.