The sun., 1900-07-27
NEW ORLEANS RIOTOUS
Mobs Attack Negroes to Avenge Police
mems Murders.
MANY OUTRAGES REPORTED.
City Assumes Peaceful Aspect Only
After the killing of One Man
and the Fatal wounding
of Several others.

New Orleans, July 26.-After being in
the hands of lawless mobs for several
hours, with the police apparently power
less to maintain order, New Orleans has
assumed peaceful aspect and the mob
apparently has spent its fury after one
man had been killed, three fatally and
ii seriously wounded.
A delegation of citizens went to the
city hall and asked the mayor either to
call out posse of citizens or appeal to
the governor to order out the militia.
His honor decided Immediately to pre-
pare a proclamation, calling for 800 vol
unteer citizens to assist the police in
preserving order.
The last disturbance occurred when
white baker. whose name is unknown,
was shot in the leg while Il crowd Of
rioters We're chasing gang of negroes.
The mob was composed of boys and hood
lums and was without leader.
The rioting grew out of the intense
feeling engendered by the murder on
| Monday night of Captain Day and Patrol
man Lamb aud the wounding Of Officer
| Mora by culored desperate, Charles.
| The better class of citizens express great
regret over the occurrences and declare
that the mob in no sense represents the
community at large.
The movement started from gather
ing of men at the Lee statue, corner Of
st. Charles avenue and Howard street,
gathering force as it moved and gradual
liz becoming infiamed to the point Of dcs-
peration 1t was not until after they
had stopped in Morrison square, on
Washington avenue and Franklin street,
near the scene of the assassination of
Captain Day and Officer Lamb, that they
listened to a speech from man hailing
from Kenner and then started out to
waylay the negroes.
Many Negroes In Hiding.
: Most of the c0lored population had
taken warning from the excitement of
the night before and kept indoors, but
there were some returning to their homes
from work, and it was one of these who
was the first victim. He was in a crowd
{ ed Henry Clay avenue car, near the
square, and when the mob saw him they
rushed for the car and dragged him out
firing one shot in the car. He turned
out to be Alexander Ruffin, a Pullman
car porter, and he was badly used up
He was cut and shot and beaten over thu
head. There was another negro witt
3 him in the car who hid under the seat
| and after the car had started they dis
I covered him, but they could not catch it.
Coming down to jackson avenue, the.
met Il. =. Sanders, the colOred porter o
, an insurance agency. lie had heard tn
{ indiscriminate shooting and stepped ou
. of his gate to see what it was about. ii
stepped into the arms of the mob an,
they made short work of him. The
9 stabbed and shot him in the back an
left him for dead In the attack hi
: watch was stolen. A dozen or more o
= the mob went out farther i'll the rear O
the town and met a ncgrcss named e.
;, ther Fields standing in her door and bru
+. tally beat her.
\ notorious character named PEP
Roses took the lead, and they headed fC
the ncighborhoOd of Franklin and Gu
tom House street. They found no III
E groes there, and were going down Villel
o street, toward some negro novels, whe
i they saw Il negro i'll Il crowded Nillcl
V street car. They halted the car, pullc
the trolley off, ordered about 20 pasSel
gers ont and then murdered the blac
He was dragged ont and filled with lea
being instantly killed. He was evident
n laborcr. His name is not known.
The mob then moved on out to the '
cinity of The old basin, on Toulouse stree
and tcrrorized that neghborhood, bt
evidently found no negroes. Then thC
went down as far as Kclcre and Da
phin streets, where they found an 0
negro rs years old. named Baptist Eli
whom they beat and shot almost to deaf