The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-15
RACE RIOT GOES ON FOR HOURS.
RESERVES or rs PRECINCTS DO
Rattle on san JUAN UiLL
Ilsht begins when Boys Grab Oid Clothes
Nan's Enk, and spreads From sixty.
first street to Seyenty.thlrd Women
and Men fin the Fray Many Injured.


and Men IN the Fray Man! Injured
n,,la, weakened old clothes man, re-
forming quietly to his home last evening,
y.. The innocent cause of n race riot which,
,,o,kirp on, early in the evening, at Am
..r,d.,n avenue and Sixty-sccond street.
,,-nop aIl over the territory bounded by
s,,,y-fr-t and :Seveaty-thrd streets, Am
.,cr1am avenue and the North River, made
,r,yeI on the cross at reefs perilous to
,,4os,riau. ard required the efforts OF the
r, ,,,,,, from rh. zen precincts to quell
Tic I'D ,lprhNs 'nan lives at l57 East Hous-
IN .. roe, ard il known in the district only
g., aO,d Man Cieorge." His last customer Of
,Do d,.. was Henry Williams, negro Of
90 West SIXTY. second street, Knowing
f,.m cyrfricnge his troubles with the
,r-t;,. Of tho district, he asked Williams
g., rnrs with him beyond the limits of San
.rur HiiI. Us the district Ia called. 1t is n
re- ION in which whites and blacks reside
an a'iu.4t equal numbers, and it teens
with friction between the two races. Also
i, T.. an anti-race suicide district and 1t
vas ag,in.t the boys, to whom the police
r.,rihe the outbreak. that "Old Man George
wanted Williamss protection.
IT Sixty-trst street and Amsterdam
fyorua Edward Connolly. II years old. OF
.?l West Sixtv-sixth street. grabbed the
cd clo,he, mans bag Williams remon-
.r,,cd but Marty O'Neill OF 50 Amster-
cam Avenue reinforced Connolly. and =
tTht began. David Crosby OF so West
Six'y-siXth street and Louis Argote Of s45
Wet Fifty-ninth street. negroes, mixed
il AND soon others, black and white. were
lammering one another with enthusiasm.
Policeman Burger OF the West Sixty
eighth street station fought his way into the
crowd and grabbed Connolly and O'Neill.
A score of men surged around him, but
he held his men and kept the Others at
distance with his revolver. Two other
policemen soon joined him and captured
Crosby and Argot and together they forced
their way to the station.
Meanwhile Roundsman Patrick L. Walsh
and Policeman Ballow, hearing Of the dis
turbance, jumped into a cab passing the sta
ton and drole LOWEST Sixty-second street.
They found the air thick with bricks. bottles
and other missiles flying from the roofs Of
the houses between Amsterdam and West
End avenues. They covered the roofs to-
eether, driving the rioters below. and then
started to clear of the sidewalks and
porches
There was a turbulent crowd Of dozen
negroes on the porch OF No. 234. Walsh
drove them inside and was about to leave.
when husky negro leaped from behind
door, brandished q revolver and pulled
the trigger directly in front Of the officers
face, at the same time remarking:
-Ah reckon there's going to be ono less
cop round these parts
defective cartridge gave the negro the
lie but he endeavored still to make good
his threat, closed with the officer, got his
head in cha merry and struck him repeatedly
in the face with the butt Of the revolver.
Walsh was in helpless position until
Policemen O'Connell and Giesenberg came
zip. Their clubs battered on the negroes
head with the rapidity and velocity GUS
tomary under such circumstances.
Walsh sustained bad outs on the scalp
and under the right eye. He was taken to
Roosevelt Hospital but pluckily returned
to duty after his wounds had been ban
aged. The negro said he was James d.
Smith, 80 years old. OF 200 West Sixty
fourth street. He was charged with feloni-
Gus assault and then taken to Roosevelt
Hospital.
Meanwhile a riot call had been sent in
and Inspector Mclaughlin had ordered out
the reserves from the ,West Sixty-eighth
the West Tooth, West Forty seventh, West
Thirty-seventh and Tenderloin stations.
Despite their help the violence continued.
A squad Of police would clear one block,
and would no sooner move on to the next
than the trouble would break out anew.
The roofs seemed alive with people who
quickly stripped the bricks from the Chin
neys and raned fusillade Of missiles upon
the street below.
As Inspector Mclaughlin and Capt
Gallagher Of the West Forty street
station came upon the scene shortly after
s o'clock they discovered battling mob
Il, the corner OF Sixtieth street and Am
t'Hrdam avenue. They fought their way
into the crowd and arrested Michael Jacob,
white, of PSI West Sixty-fourth street.
who was engaged in pounding with stone
IN already badly battered negro. The
negro was taken away by his friends.
Negro women gave the police quite as
much trouble as did the men. The men
dispersed on the arrival Of the coppers,
in most instances, having, apparently
wholesome regard for the club; tho women.
Infatuated, upbraided them as towards
and often themselves ran into the fray
Two Of these women, Marie Hustled OF 252
West Sixty-second street and Lille Hender-
son of 232 West Sixty-second street, were
arrested by Detectives Wall and Phelan.
he women remained in the custody Of the
oticers dociey enough until the arrival of
,hc patrol wagon, when one Of them struck
Wall IN the face and both resisted vigorous
IT, As they were driven away they abused
Il garg of colored men for failing to come
20 their assistance.
Another woman, Grace Lewis. colored. OF
-! West Sixty-second street, was arrested
at"I in the evening ON the same charge.
netting riot and dsorderly conduct
though the riot broke out at 7so and the
reserves Of five precincts had reinforced
the men Of the West Sixty eighth less than
an hour later. the riot kept breaking out
in'ermittently all over the district,
At 10 o'clock Inspector Mclaughlin called
'a Headquarters for help and there were
ordered to assist him the reserves OF these
thirteen other stations: Elizabeth, Leon
ard Macd o,,oal Charlea Mulharrv EaSt