The age-herald., 1900-07-27
R|OTOUS SCENES
 IN NEW ORLEANS HOod'ums Take Charge of the
 Crescent City TIE NEGROES ARE IN PERIL State Militia Ordered Out by the
 Governor. MANY INNOCENT PERSONS SHOT Several Negroes Have Been Beaten Into Insensibility and in One Case Death Resulted-Others Are
 Seriously Wounded
State Militia Ordered Out by the
 Governor.
MANY INNOCENT PERSONS SHOT

New Orleans, July 26.-Disorderly scenes, following the rioting of last night, prevail- ed throughout the city today and resulted in the swearing in by the Mayor Of five hundred special policemen and the ordering out of 1,5OO of the State militia upon orders of Governor Heard, who responded prompt- ly to the appeal of Mayor Capdevielle for immediately suppressing the existing law lessness and preventing tonight a recur- renee of the violence of last night.
 Throughout the day attacks have been made by irreconcilable mobs of whites upon the black element and the negroes before nightfall had been completely chased from the streets. The effect of the disorders was to put a practical stop to business in the wholesale districts and on the levee front. As this meant a serious crippling of the trade of the port the business elements ral- lied in force and hundreds of the most prominent men of the city responded to the appeal of the Mayor for assistance in pre- serving order.
 standardization of the casualties grow ing out of the disturbances last night and today shows that one negro was beaten to
  lives are despaired of and about a score of people, white and black, male and female, have been more or less seriously wounded In order to prevent the miscellaneous dis tribution of arms the Mayor this evening ordered the closing up of gun shops likely to supply the baser elements, and early in the day for the better preservation of the public peace, issued orders to the police to close up every saloon in the city.
 Colonel Wood in ominand
 Colonel Wood, who commanded the First Louisiana Regiment in the Spanish war, placed in command of the special po- lice The police have been practically help less throughout the disturbance. The force consists of some 300 men, including clerks and operators, and this is manifestly g. force inadequate to the preservation of the peace of a city of 310,o00 people. But aside from this the fierce indignation among the members of the department over the rutf-, less murders of Captain Day and Patrol- man Lamb by the negro fiend Robert Charles. naturally made the police sympa- thetic with the mobs in their pretended ef- forts to avenge the murders. The fact that there has been strong resentment on
  steamship agents al. contractors in the employment of ne ,ss labor to the exclusion of whites on the public works and on the levee front, also contributed somewhat to the disinclination of the police to do their full duty.
 Mayor Capdevielle was at Ocean Springs last night when the mobs swept over the city, but when he arrived at his office to- day he arrived with d full determinat ton to take hold of the situation with d firm hand He found awaiting him delegation of the leading merchants of the city, who said the interest of the community and it's com- mercial welfare demanded prompt and vig- crous action. About the same time Lieu tenant Governor Estopinal, who had wit messed scene of outrage upon negroes at Canal street, joined the conference at the hall Lieutenant Governor Estopnal im- medately advised a conference with Gov ernor Heard at Baton Rouge. The result was that Mayor Capdeville called up Gov ernor Heard over the long distance phone and laid the local disordered situation be- fore his excellency.
 Troops Ordered Out
 The Governor acted promptly and said he would order out all available troops. With out delay he sent messages to Colonel Hodgdon, commanding the First brigade. in the absence of General Glynn, and had him order out immediately the Washington Artillery, the Louisiana Field and the First Regiment The members of the three com- mands responded with great alacrty, and at twilight there were 1,5O0 men congregated in the armories At the same time the Mayor, in proclamation, appealed for 300 special police Before D. 400 of the representative citizens had been sworn in The Mayor made requisition on the leading hardware and ammunition establishments of the city, and the specials were heavily armed and then sent to various sections of the city where it was considered most likely that trouble would occur.
 Hoodlums prowled the streets througout the day, and whenever they spied negro assaulted him. In some cases citizens ral- lied to the police and with their assistance beat off the attackers. One of the most fragrant instances of cowardce shown was that of man who slipped into the inorgue and pointing his pistol through a window, made an attempt to shoot one of the fe- male negro prisoners In the parish prison Just after daylight broke the remnants of one of the mobs gathered at the Spanish fort railroah station, whence large num- Der of negro laborers daily leave for their work at Chalmette. They saw a crowd of of darkies approaching and started to chase them. Louis Lapuyard got in their way and received a bullet in the leg Later in the forenoon nervy negro emptied his
 
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