The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-05
TWO BADLY HURT In RACE RIOT
ROW OVER A RET STARTS BIG
FIGHT ~ HARLEM.
Outbreak Fed by Existing BAD Feelings
Between whites and Negroes IN the
District Victims In Harlem Hospital
whites Have Fractured skulls.

Between whites and Negroes ln the
district Victims In Harlem Hospital
whites Have Fractured skulls.
A fight between n negro and a white
man over the result Of a baseball game
played between white and negro tea ms
on Olympia Field, Fifth avenue. between
iseth and lS7th streets. yesterday after
noon. led to n riot in which scores were
hurt and two perons injured so seriously
hat they may die. 1t took the efforts Of
reserves from a dozen police stations to
quell the disturbance.
A. n result of more than an hours bonn
bsrdment from roofs and windows along
iS6th street in the vicinity of Fifth avenue
and hand to hand fighting with razors and
brass knuckles along the side streets lined
with negro tenements. John McCue. living
at . East l34th street. and Matthew Murtha
Of 3s4 Second avenue. both white men,
lie in the Harlem Hospital with fractured
skulls. Simon Morcano. colored. OF GIL
West i3oth street. also 10 in the hospital
with a badly gashed scalp. Drs. Ross
and Flicker Of the hospital staff say that
the two white men are in a serious con-
dition.
The Olympias, a white team, and the
Harlem colored baseball players had a
game early in the afternoon. At the end
of the game q white man asked for the
money on a wager which he said a negro
had lost on the result OF the game. When
tha a.~ raR,.aal 40 N. aAo xpL.Sn -o~u
struck him. The negro, whose name was not
learned by the police, ran into an apartment
house on the southeast corner of i3eth street
and Fifth avenue. across the street from the
ball grounds. Rousing the negro tenants
with his story OF the assault, he made his
way TO the roof. The rest Of the negroes
in the house, men and women alike,
scrambled up and began 10 hurl bricks
from the chimneys down on the crowd Of
whites below.
That was the signal for a fusillade from
the windows of negro apartment houses
across III street and from a stone pile on
the corner. The whites made a rush on the
apartment house at the corner, battered in
the front door and went through the halls
mauling every negro that could be found.
They were rcpulsed when they tried Il make
their exit onto the roof by blacks who stood
at the trapdoor with clubs and rods ef iron.
The noise OF the row spread through the
neighborhood N quickened the old feud
between whites and blacks into a general
outbreak. Reserve parties of both races
hurried from all about to the scene Of the
trouble and the street filled with a struggling
mass Of fighters.
The negroes on the roof OF the corner
apartment house pried of a large section
OF a chimney and dropped il into the midst
of the whites below. The mass Of brick
hit McCue, one of the seriously hurt, on the
head. A young mulatto woman who said
she was Florence Goldsboro Of % West
l25th street, when she was arrested later,
stood in the window of a fiat and poured
-scalding water down on the attackers.
When that was exhausted she dropped
kettles, teacups and pieces of furniture.
As a string of wounded began to make
way to Harlem Hospital on Lenox avenue
between l3oth and 18th streets. the fight
followed that course. Many of the en-
counters between bands OF whites and
blacks occurred under the walls OF the
hospital itself.
Capt. Shevlin at Police Headquarters
began to get many and varied report
ABOUT the riot before it had been long in
progress. He called up all the stations in
Tho Bronx and the Twenty-ninth. Thir-
tieth. Thirty-irst. Thirty-second and
Thirty-third precincts in Harlem. ordering
them to send reserves to the scene in patrol
wagons.
When the police under Inspector Thomp-
son and Lieut.. jackson OF the i7eth street
station attempted to get near the figh ting
they found their way blocked by a crowd
Of spectators for a block each way After
fighting their wa through the press the
policemen began to arrest everybody they
could lay hands on that was taking part
in them melee.
DR.. Ross and DR.. Fisher Of Harlem Hos
pital were called to the East l2oth street
police station to patch up the most seriously
wounded Of the prisoners. They were
taken to the night police court. On sew
ersl OF the negro prisoners razons and brass
knuckles we're found.
In the night court the prisoners were
held in 81 900 bail each for trial.