Evening journal., 1914-08-18
Three White Men Shot
In Race Riots Last Night

Edward Fahey, of Twelfth and French
streets.
Early last evening white men gath
cred at kirkwood Park and they re-
fused to allow any colored men to cross
Eleventh street bridge Several who did
attempt TO cross we're severely beaten.
Following the shooting of Stevens, a
crowd of white men gathered at Tenth
and Market streets aud as Shelpot
Park car came along they attempted to
pull n colored man from the car. The
police interfcrcd. Another car from
Darby was stopped by the crowd of
whites and colored passenger was
roughly handled before the police ar
rived.
While the police returned to Elev-
enth and King streets another crowd
gathered at Tenth and King streets,
and started a mad rush up Tenth
street. When Orange street was
reached the mob spied a group Of
colored men on the opposite corner,
and In an instant bricks we're flying
through the air. One missile went
crashing through the window of the
tailor store Of Nathan Shtofman. The
colored men returned the volley Of
/ lIAlhHs UuA Aii1e NNNn h'h hNWh
Orange street with the whites In pur-
suit When near Eleventh street.
the colored men stopped and several
shots were fired al the whites none
OF whom was hit.
The white men, many Of whom
were youths. returned TO Tenth and
Orange streets and discovered a col
ored man on a Delaware avenue troll
/ ley car. Instantly there were cries
of There goes one Get him." The
cclored man pulled revolver from
/ his pocket and fired FIVE shots into
/ the crowd.
( Former Chancellor John r. Nichol-
son was standing in the doorway OF
tho Y NJ. c. A. building when shots
were fired into the crowd before the
building Royden X. Jones and
Benjamin Greenstein. two newspaper
men, were running across Orange
street at the time, when . brick came
hurtling through the air. Greenstein
seeing the brick. showed Jones out
OF the way In time 10 prevent IL from
hitting his head A small piece OF
brick struck Mr. Jones IN the ear.
The trolley continued TO Tatnall
street, where the colored man jumped
from IL and ran down Tatnall street
towards Eleventh street The white
men followed and when they arrived
al Eleventh streets. a pitched battle
followed. The whites, numberine
close TO three hundred, then started tc
tear up the sidewalks and they bonn
barded the homes OF the coiored fam.
lilies in Eleventh street. The upper
windows Of the building, used as d
grocery at Eleventh and Tatnal
streets, we're broken as we're the win.
, dows in the tailor store of David Ca
ney, adjoining. Many Of the residents
In the vicinity closed their shutters
/ fearing that the bricks would breal
/ tho windows.
During this battle. someone in
q throe-story house. below Tatnal
street. on Eleventh street started I,
, fire from the window. This contin
ued until the police patrol arrived
D when a colored man with gun wal
seen running up an alley.
The streets in that vicinity toda,
= looked like a roadway to a brickyard
! bricks we're everywhere. and alonl
2 found broken.
Carloads Of Bricks.
{ Employees Of the Street and Sewer DE
D partment this morning started ont wit
e carts gathering mp the bricks that wer
lying IN the streets over which hghtin
d mobs traNersed last night. At noon
3 CARLOAD of such missiles had been gath
q cred up.
e During the fight last night At Elcvent
8 and latnall streets bullet went crash
IS ing through tho door at the home a
It Benjamin J.. Denio No. ll07 West street
o he doorway was half glass and WOO,
IS lhe glass was demolished and the bul
let was found imbeddd in the hallway.
n President Bowers Of tho Board of i,
y lice Commissioners, following confer
S. cnce Tbs morning. when asked "A h
o had any statement 10 make. replio,
q, NO. we find from the reports submit
ID ted by our street sergcants. that m
n affair IS not as great as the newspape,
h, make u appear. II Is bad enough. "a
Is know"
Id When Chief OF Police Black wa