The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-07-20
RIOT IN NEW YORK
Fierce Battle Ragged Between
Whites and Blacks.
USED GUNS AND BRICKS
Force cf TWO Hundred and Fifty Po-
Iicemen Required to Que! Con-
flict-Scores CT the Combat
ants More or Less Injured.

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 it's notor:ety as a battle
ground, was the scene Friday night
of furious race riot which required
250 policemen to quell after many
shots had been fred and several Fer.
sens had been seriously injured.
The trouble began shortly after 9
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 mob Of Connollys
friends, hurting showers of stones and
other missiles. When the station
house reserves turned out the whole
neighborhood 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 thousand men,
boys and women, black and white,
were engaged in a furious combat.
The small party Of police were pow
erless and reinforcements were sum-
moned.
On their arrival Gordon was drawn
around the whole district, and strong
patrols made repeated charges down
the streets in a vain effort to restore
order. They succeeded in making q
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 o'clock and. realizing how
widespread was the danger, sent hur-
ry calls for reserves from as far north
as One Hundred and Twenty-firtn
street from the east side, and from
the west ide. In all there we're more
than 25O men under command of the
inspector within twenty minutes.
Squads of men were sent along
roofs of the houses in si1ty-second
street, where the fighting seemed
heaviest. They walked from West
End avenue to Amsterdam, clearing
the roofs, and found that many chin
neys had been torn to pieces to fur'
nish ammunition to the rioters, and
in the coraers 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 a desultory combat
continued.
The 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 ret'
uge 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
houses. Conductors and fnotormen
hid under seats, leaving their cars
to the mercy Of the mob. Several
passengers were slightly hurt. by
stones and broken glasses.
Commissioner McAdoo arrived at IL
o'clock, and made tour OF the bat
tie field, the fighting by that time nav
ing ceased. He said the riot could
not have taken place had not tne
rougher element been permitted TO
carry arms. They appeared to have
a regular arsenal of weapons, as the
police found when they searched the
prisoners.