The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-07-14
AFTERMATH OF The
GREAT RENO FIGHT
Negroes Crazed With Liquor and
Victory Of johnson, Cause Riots
All Over United States.
Seven are Injured
In Roanoke.

Casualties resulting from race
riots throughout country as . re-
suit OF JohnsOn's defeat of JEFF
fries:
The dead; UvaIdia, Ga, 3;
Mounds, III, 2; Lake Providence,
La, 2; Little Rock, Ark, 2; Gin
ctnnaft, o., 4; Omaha, Neb., 1;
Va, 4; New York, 4; Tallulab,
La, 4; Northern Loujstans, 3.
Total. Is.
Injured: New York, IS; Omaha,
10; St. Louis, ~; Philadelphia,
19; Washington, IS; Norfolk, Va,
ID; Keystone, w. Va, 10; VII
mington, Del, ~; Roanoke, Va,
10; Uvaldia, Ca, 8; Louisville, 4;
Houston, Tex, 3; New Orleans, q;
Atlanta, Ca, z; Mount Sterling,
kyr 3; Macon, Ga, Q; Cincinnati,
4; Baltimore, 8; CIarksburR, w.
Va, 3; St Joseph, Mo-, 3; Pueblo,
COL, q; P1ttsburg, 1s; elsewhere
(estimated), 400.
ALTON, HL--Specjal-- George
Clark, q negro, exulting I'm john
sons victory, pushed Mrs. William
Clark from a sidewalk. Her hus-
band led q mob who pursued the
negro and beat him terribly.
lynch the negro the police inter-
fened.
LEXINGTON, KY-Special.-
Three negroes were shot, one IA
tally, In a riOt arising from the
Reno fight, at Mt. Sterling, KY,
early Tuesday, according 60 dis
patches received here. A deputy
Sheriff nortofly wounded one ne
gro.
LOUISVILLE, KY-SpeciaI.-
Police, acting under orders TO ar
rest all negroes celebrating the
victory OF Jack johnson, had
taken into custody more than 100
blacks when quiet was restored
carly today.
There were many minor fights.
NEW YORK.-Special.- JAG
Johnson knocked out Jim Jeffries a
Reno, $500 miles away, he started
wave of rioting in New York tina
Kept the negro sections in turrno
throughout abe night and past day
light Tuesday morning. Not till afte
lawn, when scores had been injured
me man killed and a negro save
rom lynching as he was strung u
~ drunken crowd of whites did tn
police, heavily reinforced, res:or
Iuiet.
In twelve years no such scenes hav
been enacted in New York-pot sine
ace war broke out on the Yves
Side and mobs chased negroes throuE
he streets while police guns blazeC
When the tally OF the known vic
inns was made today il was declare
~ the authorities that several of tn
INJURED would probably die, beside
George Crawford, a negro, whose skul
vas crushed in lower Eighth Avenue
Individual clashes and gang fight
from early evening III
bright morning between whites an
blacks in the negro residence district
II the lower West Side, San Juan Hi
o the north and Harlem, where Their
ire large negro colonies.
Hour after hour the crack and DO
II guns re-echoed through the street
and they were rot the pistols o
Fourth celebraters. Many OF the in
ured-beaten or shot-were hurrie
o their homes, and the police wer
lnable 10 secure an accurate rosie
II the hurt. A careful estimate place
he total well above q hundred. Tn
hight Police Court did q rushing bust
less, and when the day courts wer
opened TO-DAY the dockets were Ions
rs the result Of that prize fight OF
he other side of the continent
New York negroes had backed thei
champion heavily. When Jeffries wa
10 longer the uDdefeated one, tn
blacks Of this city were richer by from
$4,000 70 100000.