The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-14
POLICE AND PROVOST
GUARD PoWERLESS AND
SHAFTER SENDS TROOPS
Earaged AT Racial Line Drawn,
Visiting cayaIrymen Batter
Down Doors, Stone and Beat
Women and Destroy Property
N Their FrenzIed Onslaught

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"a diers Of the Ninth Cavalry,
= on leave from the transport
sheridan attacked The houses OF
the women Of Iwilei shortly at
ter seven o'clock last night, aud
before trooPs from ,Fcrt Shafter,
summoned to cope with the riot by the
powerless police, coHld intervene, had
wrecked fully half of the ffty.odd
houses and looted practically all of
them. Two Of the d .nizens Of the dis
trict were painfully injured by the
rioters, and nearly all of them lost
money, jewel.y and other valuables
which they had hidden in various hooks
and eranies of the'r houses. a.. .-
When the Second. Battalion Of the
Second Infantry reached the district
after the riot call had been issued the
zone was declared under martial law
and line of white soldiers, with fixed
bayonets, was set to guard the prison
road and the approaches TO Aala Park
Not an arrest was made, but mill
tary officials said that a strict inyesti-
cation of the affair would be made to
day and the ring leaders, in what is
believed TO have been a carefully plan,
ned plot to wreck the whole dis ret,
punished. sa
As soon as news of the outbreak
reached army headquarters, orders
were issued doubling the provost guard
in other districts of the city, and di,
Tecting that every member of the Ninth
Cavalry be arrested on sight and taken
to the transport Sheridan, under guard
Trouble Starts In Afternoon
The trouble started yesterday after,
noon when meml ess of the Cavalry
regiment, in the city on it's way to
Manila, visited the district of Iwilei
and attempted to force their attentions
upon the white inmates of the various
houses. With the exception of threo
or four Of the houses, the women re,
fused to allow the men inside their
houses. Reports Of this attitude on
the part of the white women spread to
ths other Ninth Gava'ry soldiers, who
were sightseeing all over town. 1t got
to the dance given to the members OF
the Ninth by the Twenty fifth regi
ment, at the national guard armory
and stirred up q gale of wrath among
the visiting soldiers. Later, it is said
three or four men, members Of d tfereni
companies, organ zed a gang of fifty
or sixty cavalrymen, who had been
visiting the saloons in different parts
Of the city, and proceeded to march
on Iwilei. =
AS the little band went along il
grew in numbers, until by the, time the
district was reached more than foul
hundred eolored soldiers, among VIII IN
II was said, were some members of tn,
Twenty-ffth regiment, all of them more
or less under the influence of liquoI
and anger, and prime for trouble, wee
in the gang. .s4 s.3t'@
1t was shortly after seven o'clock
according to the statement Of member
of the provost gnarl stationed in tn,
district, when the disturbance started
with an attack on the house kept bl
Lena Stein. The rioters were armed
with brickbats and clubs, AMI they
used stones from the streets and gar
dens as missiles. 2",@
A frick th,opgh the window of thu
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