New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-20
NEGROES RIOT ON BARGE
WONEN ARE PUT IN PANIC
Many SIdShed on Church Excursion
Police Come in Launches.

Riot and panic reiEaed the picnic barge
Walter Sands from Riverview Grove on the
Hudson. to this city yesterday afternoon. Ne
groes from the Union Baptist Colored Church,
No POP West Sixty-third-st. had chartered the
vessel The men slashed cut dubbed and beat
one another. mobbed the only two policemen
aboard. attacked Captain p L. McCorry. who
defended himself In his wheelhouse with axe
were prevented from mobbing the of two
men, who beat them of with axes, kept the
women and children in constant fear and al
most capsized the barge opposite One-hundred
ard-ffty- -hfth-st. in their eagerness to throw
their weapons overheard when the police came
alongside in a launch.
The whole day series OF troubles and
rotins the last riot occurring at the West Fif-
tieth-st pier where the men beat the women
aside and rushed TO get of the boat first TO
cape the police who were waiting for them. The
women beat the children back and made quar-
ter Of an hour Of terror till the police quelled
the excitement. Six arrests were made on the
barge at hundred and fifth-st the pas
tor, the Rev. George H. Sims. pointing out the
alleged ringleaders of the rioting. More negroes
arrested at the West Fifteth-st, pier.
About eleven hundred negroes boarded the
barge early yesterday morning The barge was
in tow OF the tug Anna ]. Kipp. The crew was
made up by William Carr. first mate and Ches-
the harbor squad OF East observation-disclosures
twenty -second-st. were James Weckesser and
John Hellmers. The only other white person on
board a man said to be a benefactor OF the
church. lie aboard on his invitation.
He disliked for some reason. and it be-
cause of him the quarrelling began. The negroes
fought over the question of taking him.
The quarrelling was suppressed TO a stage OF
individual battles up to the time of arriving
the grove. The barge was scheduled to leave
there in the night The fighting became faster
at the grove. and Mr. Sims decided 1t would be
better to get the children and women home. 80
he ordered the boat to leave soon after they had
arrived.
THE MEN IN UGLY HUMOR.
The men were in ugly hunlor and when the
fighting among them started and Policemen
Hellmers and Weckesser tried TO interfere they
were attacked Their faces were beaten and
their uniforms torn. Their helmets were
stamped on and thrown overheard. Then Cap
tain McCorry told his to prepare for
trouble He stationed mate at each end OF
the boat with an TO defend himself and
prevent any jumping overheard. for the
women and children and some men were in a
panicky state
Revolvers and and knives had been
drawn, and there much promiscuous firing.
The leaders of the mob had worked themselves
into rage by the time the barge passed Yonk-
ers and the captain was attacked. He was in
his pilot house, when four negroes with razors
and revolvers, rushed up the companionwav and
opened his door. Captain McCorry kicked the
first man, bowled him over. then kicked the
others down the companionway sending the
first negro after them.
He rushed back, tied his wheel to make dead
ahead" seized an axe and stood in the doorway
ready for an attack. 1t did not come
McCorry shouted to his mates to stand fact,
and they remained post with axes. They
were not attacked, the negroes continuing the
lighting among themselves. 1t went fast and
men were repeatedly knocked down and
trampled on. The women and children rushed
this way and that as the fighters approached
Them shrieking in terror and begging for help.
The negroes fought all over the boat. engaging
the quieter ones in the fight by attacking them.
There was good deal of slashng.
The tug saw the rioting and whistled signals
of distress. and ran up it's American ensign up
side down. as sign of distress This was near
ly opposite Yonkers. The Yonkers police tele-
phoned TO Police Headquarters at Manhattan
and the West One-hundred- and -ifty-second-st
West ne-hundred-and-twenty fifth and West
Observation-Disclosures. stations were informed Cap
tain McGlynn and ten men started in a launch
from West One-hundred- -and-twenty-f y-ffth-st.
and roundsman and ten from the One
hundred -and-Afty y-second and One-hundredth-st.
stations. all detachments in launches and 10
meet the rioters the barge.
MEET THE BARGE IN LAUNCH.
Roundsman Diepold and his men in the
launch from One hundred and fift y-second-st
met the barge first. The riotng was at its
height then, but the negroes feared the police.
When the launch went alongside the Walter
sandss port the negroes rushed TO the starboard