Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-15
New York's Notorious Battle
Ground Scene Of Fierce and
Bloody Conflict.
RESERVES WERE CALLED OUT
Required $50 Policemen to ouclI Bel.
!loose Spirit of Hlo.ers-rroubre
Grew Out of an Arrest-many
Shots Fired and Several Person.
Seriously Injured.
<By Associated pres.

~ ThoooCtdteu Pre6g.)
NDW YORK. uly 14-"San Jua
tiii' the district bounded by Amste
uam and West End avenues. and 81,
V.Hrst and Sixty-third streets 6,
CARED because of its notorietv ps
battle ground, was the scene ton;rt,
OF furious race riot, which require,
A'o policemen to qucll. after man,
sio's hau been fred and several Der
suns iad been seriously injured.
me trouble began shortly nfter ,
s'ocN when policeman arrested
onward Connolly for attacking Henry
"i"i"'iis' a negro. and was pursued Il,
'ne STATION house, with his prisoner H.,
mob OF Connclly's friends. hurl,r,.
showers of stones and otbor n,t,.,,a.'
Neishborhood in Uproar.
"hen the station house reserve.
,heu Out. the whole neighborboo5
was IN an uproar and blacks enpoy.d
:" desperate struggles in the stron,.
torrents of missiles were bnr,o,,
from roofs and windows. Within ten
minutes not less than Thousand
men, Dogs and women. black a,l
""ni'e, were engaged in f.,
na{he small body of police were pow
erless and reinforcemcnts were sum
moned. ON their arrival Gordon was
drawn around the whole district anu
strong patrols made repeated charges
down the streets in vain effort TO
restore order.
Policemen Forced to Retreat.
They succeeded In making few
prisoners and were forced to retreat,
fighting. every inch Of the way, and
pursued TO the station house by II
bowling mob.
The worst of the fighting was III
Sixty-sccond street. From every will
dow and from every roof, rained mis-
siles, while hundreds Of shots were
fired. Roundsmnn Patrick Walsh was
knocked down by Joseph b. Smith
a negro, who lcaped upon him from
a stoop annl, after attempting to shoot
him, struck him repeatedly with the
butt of his revolver. Walsh wa.
finally rescued by his comrades.
Hurry Call for Reserves.
INSPECTOR Mclaughlin arrived
shortly before o'clock and. reali2
ing how widespread was the danger
sent hurry calls for reserves. In a
there were more than $50 men undo
command OF the Inspector inside {
twenty minutes.
Squads of men were then sci
along the roofs Of the houses
Sixty-second street, where the fightir
seemed heaviest. They walked fro
West End avenue to Amsterdam
clearing the roofs and found thu
many chimneys had been torn
pieces to furnish ammunition for Il
rioters md in the corners of roo
were mounds of bricks, pottery al
bottles.
Many Rescues Made.
More arrests we're made and sever
whites and negroes were rescued FRI
gangs of assalants, but desultory co
bats continued.
Inspector Mclaughlin and Capti
Gallagher, while passing throul
rescued Michael Jacoby. q white M
who was being beaten by two
groes armed with rocks. The negr'
escaped.
The rioting spread down to FL
seventh street and up to Sixty-eig
street, although the hardest patt
were fought between Sixty-nrst
,Sixty-third streets.
s,E}, Care at Mercy of Mob.
For more than half an hour cars
the Amsterdam line were block
Colored men pursued by whites. I
refuge on cars as they passed,
were followed by showers of br
andi stones as they fled. Every
dow in many cars was broken and
sengers took shelter In neighbo
houses. Conductors and motor
hidlunder seats. leaving their car
the mercy of the mob.