The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-07-21
RIOT OF RACES
in NEW YORK
PandemOnium Precipitated By a
Fierce Battle In Streets.
BULLETS AND BRECKBATS
Were Weapons Used by Rioters. Two
Hundred and Fifty Policemen Re-
quired to Stop the Fight.

"San Juan Hill" the district bound.
ed by Amsterdam and West End ave.
nues and Sixty.frst and sixty-third
streets, in New York city. so called
because Of its notoriety as a battle.
ground, was the scene Friday night
OF a furious race riot which required
$50 policemen to quell after many
shots had been fired and several per.
sons had been seriously injured.
The trouble began shortly after 8
o'clock when policeman arrested Ed.
ward Connolly, white, for attacking
Henry Williams, a negro, and was
pursued to the station house with
his prisoner by a mob Of Connolly's
friends, hurting showers OF stones and
b. other missiles. When the station
house reserves turned out the whole
neghborhood was in an uproar, and
blacks and whites engaged in des
perate struggles in the streets. Tor
rents of missiles were hurled from
roofs and windows. Within ten min.
utes not less than a thousand men,
boys and women, black and white,
were engaged in a furious combat.
The small party OF police were pow
eriess and reinforcements were sum-
moned.
On their arrival a Gordon was drawn
around the whole district, and strong
patrols made repeated charges down
the streets in vain effort to restore
order, They succeeded in making
few prisoners, and were forced TO re-
treat, fighting every inch of the way
and pursued to the station house
by a bowling mob.
The worst fighting was in Sixty.
second street, where from every win.
dow and roof rained missiles, while
hundreds Of shots were fired.
Inspector Mclaughlin arrived short.
ly before Q O'Clock and, realizing how
widespread was the danger, sent hur-
ry calls for reserves from as far north
as One Hundred and Twenty-hTtn
street from the east side. and from
the west side. In all there were more
than $50 men under command OF the
inspector within twenty minutes.
Squads Of men were sent along
roofs OF the houses in Sixty.second
street, where the fighting seemed
heaviest They walked from west
End avenue 20 Amsterdam, clearing
the roofs, and found that many chin
news had been torn TO pieces to fur
nish ammunition to the rioters, and
in the corners OF roofs were mounds
OF bricks, pottery and bottles. More
arrests were made, and several whites
and negroes were rescued from gangs
of assailants, but desultory combat
continued.
Tho rioting spread down town TO
Fifty seventh street and up TO Sixty.
eighth street, although the hardest
battles were fought between Sixty
first and Sixty.third streets. For
more than half an hour cars on the
Amsterdam line were blocked. Color.
ed men pursued by whites took reg;
uga on cars as they passed, and were
followed by showers OF bricks and
stones as they fed. Every window
in many cars were broken, and pas
sengers took shelter in neighboring
horses Conductors and notormen
hid under seats, leaving their cars
70 the mercy Of the mob. Several
passengers were slightly hurt by
stones and broken glasses.
Commissioner McAdOo arrived at IL
o'clock, and made a tour Of the bat
tie field. the fighting by that time hav-
ing ceased. He said the riot could
not have taken place had not the
roughsr element been permitted 10
carry arms. They appeared to have
a regular arsenal OF weapons, as the
police found when they searched the
prisoners.