The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-08
RACE RIOT ON SAN JUAN HILL
NEGRESS STARTS TT BY EMPTPIN0
BUCKET on WHITE BOY.

were Trying 90 Mil Him Battle TN
which Rcvolvcrs were Fired. Rrscks
rhrswu and Ptghters Hurt Two shot.
A nsgress who lives ON the third door
Of a7 West sixty-nrst street, in the heart
Of the San Juan district. threw q buckst Of
water out Of he window last evening on
the head OF an Italian boy who was on the
sidewalk. The boy. sputtering with
rage. jumped or a colored Lad playing In
the street and took revenge IN him. The
colorod boy yelled for help. ooiorsd men
and boys ran up and the Italian boy sprinted
toward West End avenue. shouting: De
dinges 10 tryin' ter kill me-"
This incident started something of q raos
riot In short order. When the Italian boz
came flying down Sixty-frst street out OF
the black belt. dripping with water. tho
White section OF the hin along lower wess
End avenue rose up and prepared for
battle. Negroes came swarming out Of
the tenements and soon the air was full a
flying missiles. When their ammunition
was gone the negroes retrcated up the
stoops into the houses and took to the roofs
From this vantage they threw down cobble-
stones and half bricks upon the whites
Policeman Murphy Of ths West Sixty
eighth street station ~telephoned for ths
reserves and with Policeman O'Connor
tried to dispense the fighting mob.
Capt. Stevenson Of the West Sixty eighth
street station was there in a few minutes
With a patrol wagon full Of reserves. He
was just in time to rescue the whites from
an ugly pounding. As they had charged
up West Sixty-Arst street driving the
negroes toward Amsterdam avenue and
into the tenements. the blacks 10 West
Sixty-second street had been appraised by
the shots and roar of the crowd Of what was
up. They ran into their homes. came out
armed with whatever was handy and
dashed in a solid regiment down Sixty
second street to West End avenue.
There was a lively fusillsde Of bricks
and bullets. The whites turned and.
lodging a. best they could the bricks
still raining DOWN from tho roofs fought
10 get back into West End avenue They
were not succeeding. and between the
bricks from above and the bullets from In
front we're slowly getting the worst Of
IL when Capt. Stevenson and his men took
the negroes in the rear from West End
avenue. Then they fed panic stricken.
Three more patrol wagons brought
reserves from the West Thirty-seventh.
West Forty-seventh and West tooth street
stations. They went at the whites and
blacks from all sides, using their clubs
with great vigor. The bricks and other
roof ammunition had been pretty we'll en-
hausted and the roof fighters could do
naShsn1 k,.f rDfraat kSlouu aaA ~ss,h shAar
friends get pounded with the 'nightsticks.
Policeman McGinty OF the West Sixty
eighth street station saw a gigantic black
man leaning out Of a Are escape at 22s West
Sixty-frst street yelling in rage and hurting
down chairs. fiatirons. pictures and other
household articles on the unlucky heads
below. McGinty and Mullins stole up
through the house and got the man around
the neck and had beaten him into submits
sion before he could do much damage. He
said he was John Adams of go West Sixty
hrst street.
The police got the whites. angry and
sullen. pretty we'll herded back into their
tenements along West End avenue before
long. The main fight broke W into littls
scraps between the police on one side and
whites and negroes on the other, all through
the district. Rescue parties OF both colors
were met in the adjacent streets, their hands
full Of bricks, knives and revolvers, hurry
ing TO the relief OF their friends. who they
were sure were being murdered. There
was a little fight as the squads Of blue"
| coats met each Of these and they we're sent
scurrying back home.
There were only three arrests. all pegroea.
They were, besides Adams, William Smith.
7s years old. Of 2ss West Sixty-frst street
and Allan Love, n years old, OF the same
place. They we're arrested while yelling.
throwing bricks and shooting revoivers
from the third floor windows. All three
were charged with shooting revolvers ana
melting a riot. Tit Rev. Mr.. Sims Of tho
Union Baptist Church, in West Sixty-hrst
street near Amsterdam avenue, got halfa
dozen policemen for guards and held SER
vices. Another negro church around the
corner was going to hold a revival. but the
pastor determined that his parishioners
were in such a state OF mind that il would
be dangerous TO hold the service.
No one was killed or badly hurt. Some
Negroes bullet from the housetops struck
Frank Antansio. a thirteen-year-old Italian
boy Of a5 West Sixty-fourth street, in the
! nose and went almost straight down through
the mouth, coming out under the chin. He
is At Roosevelt Hospital and will recover.
The rest of the injured came limping into
the drug stores. the police stations and
Roosevelt Hospital in the course Of the
evening
some OF those who came 70 the hospital
and then wont home were: Frank Warren
OF so West End avenue. scalp wound; Caspm
Gesway. II years old. Of 7s2 West Sixty
first street. bullet in the feshy part OF the
leg; Joe Kearnsy. 5Si West Fifty-ninth
street. scalp wound; all whits. Henry
Washington. . negro. OF 7ss West Sixty
first street had . lacerated jaw hxed up In a
drug store. James Summers.t. a oolored
boy. Of PIC West sixty-seoond street had
face wound treated At tha hospital
An italian boy was picked up uncon-
~soious, having been struck with a
brick on the top OF the head. He was
about to be put into an ambulance when
his mother came along. grabbed him
from the surgeon and ran on home with him.