Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-20
K INJURED IN RIOT
OF SUGAR MAKERS
Mon and Woman Shot When
200 Strikers Attack
Negro Breakers
MIX DRIVER ASSAULTED

man and a woman were shot and
...,,uslv wounded. one man beaten into
ss..rsihiI;ty and twelve suffered minor in.
inss .s,.s today when 900 strikers Of the
ey..nklin Sugar Refinery clashed with an
.,uaI number of negro strike-breakers on
nusen street between Front ana Second
Sore than 100 shots were fired. The in
jred are;
,,urs Jones. 1881 South Bouvier street; shot
~ the right shoulder: Mt. Sinai Hospital ;
VS. ps'0JsI ELIZABETH PIDGEoN. passer- by,
sHSoHrtv.four years old. S11 South Howard street;
wife OF a city fireman. shot In breast; treated
rssttrf,Fs efI MOODY, Water and Christian
a.reets; beaten into unconsciousness; Pennsyl-
, wnla Hospital; serious
The disturbance assumed the seriousness
A. big race riot few minutes after it
,ssrted The whites and negroes exchanged
.hots through several streets, and bottles
and clubs were swung against craniums.
ritizens darted into Railways and residents
closed their shutters as protection against
an almost continuous fusllade of bullets.
Scores of windows were broken along the
,outs of the running battle. and the COM
hatants beat in the door of a saloon and
the doors of several stores.
According to the police the trouble started
within fifty yards of the Second and Chris
tan streets station while three hundred
Ar more negro strike-breakers were march,
ng to their wark Charles Moody, n milk
man of Water and Christian streets. was
delivering milk on Queen street. near Sec
ond when he was attacked by some of the
negroes He was beaten and kicked into
unconsciousness and his injuries were so
severe that he was removed to the Penn
slyania Hospital. The attack on Moody
occurred right in the heart of the belt
where reside the strikers, and hundreds OF
them poured from their homes and attacked
the negroes.
Many negroes drew revolvers and razors,
and more than fifty strikers brought re-
yolyers and knives into play. The first ex-
change of shots brought down James Jones,
1881 South Bouvier street with bullet in
his right shoulder He lay in the street
until the police removed him to Mt. Sinai
Hospital.
Policeman Walker. of the Second and
Christian streets station. and +. j. Swartz,
4 Pennsylvania railroad policeman, heard
the shots and tried to get into the melee,
but were overpowered by numbers. The
negroes began to give way before the white
men, and the battle deteriorated into run
ming skirmish. The whites chased the
negroes down Queen street to Front, south
on Front to Christian. to Delaware avenue
and down Delaware avenue to Washington
avenue where the negroes made stand.
The rioters smashed i'm the saloon of Mrs.
NARY Gdllagner, water street ana Washing
ton avenue, and the door of the cigar store
Of Thomas J. Parker at Front and Christian
streets. The windows in Parker's store
we're smashed
Policemen Germany, Guida and Short of
the Seventh and Carpenter streets station.
got into the affray at Delaware and Wash
hgton avenues. They rounded up sixty of
the combatants. and were proceeding to
dlsarm them, when a bullet clipped off the
nssel ~ Cormany's club. Another bullet
skipped across the top of Guidas right ear.
Strikers closed in on the policemen, and
hlngs looked bad for them. when five
mounted policemen and detail of patrol
men from the Fourth street and Snyder
avenue station arrived. The combatants
scattered, but three of them, negroes, were
Ttested, They are Charles and Henry
Johnson and Charles Middleton, 1880 Car
penter street.
henry johnson, who lives at 75S South
s'neteenth street was held under $500 bail
LOT court by Magistrate Coward at the Sew
saln and Carpenter streets station on a
sasge sasige OF assault and battery and under
s.oo bail for melting to riot by Magistrate
imcer at the Second and Christian streets
Mtion Charles Middleton suffered the
sme tate and Charles johnson. 2144 Jeffer-
!. Un street, was held under $500 for incit-
~s 70 riot by Magistrate Imber.