New-York tribune., 1901-12-26
AN UGLY RACE RIOT IN HARLEM.
MANY INJURED IN ATTACKS OF WHITES AND POLICE
ON NEGROES.


! molly had tried to break up the fight. but had
failed He got into a yard in the thick of the
fight. and was hit on the head with a club by a
negro. He staggered to the gutter and lay there.
When picked up he unconscious He was
carried into a stable of the Street CleaningsDe-
partment.
.AmbuIances had been teIephoned for, and they
arrived with DR.. Smith and DR.. Fox, OF the J..
Hood Wright Hospital. Dr. Smith dressed Con-
nOy'S injuries, and then sent him home His
left eye badly cut and his forehead was
ripped by the club
Several injured men had been spirited awayr
by whites and negroes. 1t was estimated that
the negroes had fired two hundred shots at ths
whites.
Policemen were stationed at each end OF the
block to keep persons from entering the street
there Crowds gathered to see where the riot had,
occurred. The negroes were furious over ths
assault of the white men and the work Of thg
police.
THE NEGROES FROM THE SOUTH
The coIored men who took part in the fghe
are employed in the construction Of the rapid
transit tunnel in the neighborhood Of the riot
ing They work for a sub-cOntractor named
Smith, who. it is said, imported them from
Maryland and other Southern States Sincsi
the arrival Of the colored men there has beens
considerable Ill feeling Numerous petty fights
have taken place recently.
The story Of the origin Of the trouble told by
James Hudson one of the colored men arrested,
differs from that told by the police. He says.
that he left his home, No. 613 West One-hun-,
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Murtha's saloon. in Broadway Five small boys
were tormenting a coIored man known as Bud
by throwing stones at him. Bud chased the.
boys. Outside the saloon were numoer OF
white men. One of these said TO Hudson:
What's the matter with that coon down
Hudson says he replied that the man was
drunk, and that the boys were teasing him
We'll. you had better take him home or there
will be trouble" the man replied Hudson tried
TO get Bud to enter his (HudsOn 81 home
Bud refused to go. and. pulling revolver
from his pocket pointed it into the air and ex-'
claimed. Hudson declares:
I'm looking for trouble" -
Hudson says he finally managed TO get NBud'1
into the house but the latter insisted that thirty
or forty white men were trying TO kill him. and.
accompanied by Davis, another colored man. ne
left the house. The men talked together on tina
sidewalk for few minutes and then Davis ran
back into the house and got his revolver Both
coIored men went to where the white men werex
standing at One hundred and -thirtieth-st. and
Broadway. and became engaged In a fight, Hud-
son says The noise was heard by other coloref
men in the tenements. and in a few seconds
many men ran from the houses, nearly all OF
whom had drawn revOlvers-
STONED A DRUG STORE
Davis did not go into the house. but ran 10.
the drug store of 3. B. Myers, near by. and
asked his aid. With Myers was his clerk
Charles Baum. Before the door could be closed
against the white men several large stones had
crashed through the windows The mob was
crvine XIII the niggers!" when the police ar
rived and by the free use OF their sticks
dispersed it, -
Davis in the mean time made mis- way tnroughs
a rear doorway, and returned TO his home
Later he escaped from there and the police have
been unable to find him.
a version similar that of Hudson Is given.
bv Thomas Tone COlored. of No. 0I6 West One,
hundred-and- -thirty-first-st-
After dispensing the mob the police, who were
under the command of Inspector Kane and Cap
tain Hogan, arrested "Burly" May, forty-foU-
years old. and lose Coleman, ffty-two years
old. both of No. GIL West observation-disclosures
thfrtieth-st: William Jones. twenty-four years
old: James Hudson. forty-three years old; Ellis
Wilson iwenty-eight years old, and Louis Good
win twe:nty-four years old. all of No. 6l3 West
One -huntiref-and thirtieth-st-; James Brown
twenty years old. No. 81 West One-hundred-
and thirty-fifth- George H Pe1tOn, twenty
eight years old. No 800 West One-hundred-and-
thirtieth-st.. William CT Miller twenty-seven
wears old No :}O4 West -hundred-and- -fOrty-
eighth-st.; Albert Ashton. thirty-six years old,
One-h -hundred-and-ninety -fourth-st- and Amster-
dam-ave; Charles Marshall twenty nine years
old No 302 West ne-hundred-and-forty-
efghth-st.: John J. Pleasant. twenty-foUr years
old No 6:S4 West e-hundred-and-t thirty-sev-
cnth-st.; Wallace Bird, twenty-fOur years old,
No coo West One-hundred- -Jhirtieth-St.s
and anot ner man. who was at once released
Jones' May and Goodwin are charged with
feIonoIs assault and the other prisoners with.
being suspicious persons 1t is believed by the
noIice that MAY was the instigatOr Of the
trouble The prisoners will be arraigned in the
Harlem court this morning