Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-30
PH|LA. RIOTERS
BEYOND CONTROL;
U.S.TROOPSCALLED
Rows of Houses Wrecked and
Burned; Many Persons Shot,
One Fatally; Intolerance Of
Negroes While Whites Are
at Front Blamed.
BLACKS ARE WELL ARMED

Philadelphia, July 30-The reign of
race terrorism In the downtown section
from Twentv-hfth to Thirtieth street,
and from Dickinson street to Washing
ton avenue continued Yesterday, and up
until late hour last night the situation
was still regarded as critical. One more
life was added TO the toll exacted by the
feud which commenced on Saturday
night, making a total of three dead, two
white and one colored. in three days, while
several SCORE were injured. All the saloons
in the affected area were ordered closed,
while IS naval police and Is marines,
commanded by Chief Gunner's Mate
Dunn. were dispatched to aid the police
and the Home Defense Reserves In quell-
ing the disturbances.
RIOT AREA GROWS LARGER.
The rioting spread last night to the
Nineteenth police district. Clashes IN
which MANY shots were exchanged be-
tween whites and blacks were recorded.
Open violence in the way of rrtalla-
tion for the killing of the two white
men. Hugh Lsvery and Patrolman
Thomas McVay, was displayed contlnu-
ouslv by the white residents of South
Philadelphia, where the riotlng first
took place. From dawn until far into
the night. Negroes We're mobbcd on
the street, their homes wrecked and they
were warned TO move their belongings
to other districts. Several hundred men,
women and children raided and set fire
TO the home of Henry Huff, 21l9 Titan
street the Negro who Is alleged to have
shot and killed Policeman McVay. Tho
mob stormed the homo and ransacked
every nook and corner.
After the invaders had cleared OF
o1l including
piano, they set fire to the house. The
flames began TO spread TO the house ad-
joining. which was the home of John
McPolin, white, who WAS shot IN the
thigh during Sundays noting.
rAMrLYs GOODS ALL BURNED.
Before the engines which had been
Charles McShane and William John
son. armed with borrowed hose, man
aged TO keep the flames from doing
much damage TO the McPolin residence.
The Huff family possessions, including
q plsyer-piano, were heaped IN a pile
on the street and bonfire made OF them.
All this took place before police arrived
on the scene.
Despite the fact that two policemen
were stationed on every corner IN the
affected ares, another not of serious turn
and much property damaging took place
on Stillman street. For fully three
quarters of An hour the white raiders
played havoc with the property of the
colored residents in the 1900 block Of
South Stillman street without police
interference.
sN1Prr5 FR ON HOUSES CovT1NINA
F. Hoffman, sailor, 2640 Reed etreet,
was walking up Stillman street, when 1t
uas alleged by the whites of the street
that q pistol was fired at him from the
home Of Mrs. Eleanor Grant, 1922 Still
man street. The firing of the shot was a
signal for q general uprising. Beginning
with the Grant residence, the mob OF
whites began to deInoli.h the residences of
their colored neighbors. They were urged
on in their work of destruction by hun
dreds Of workmen returning from adloin-
ing mills.
After several houses had been wrecked.
8 squad Of mounted police appeared and
dispersed the rioters.
KILL NEGRO AT STATION HOUSE.
The man killed yesterday WAS Riley
Bullock, colored. 2032 Amin street
lie died in the Polytechnic Hospital after
being sniped while entering the Seven
teenth district police station in the COM
panv OF Patrolmen Ramsey and Snyder.
The man was shot in the lungs and died
half-hour after being admitted 10 the
hospital.
Bullock was arrested at Twenty
seventh and Oakford streets after he had
attempted TO provoke q fight with a
white man. When Patrolrnen Ramsey
and Snyder told the Negro that he was
under arrest, he whipped out q long
razor with jagged edge and attempted
TO slash about him. The initial slash
ripped Rarnsey's coat In the back almost
in twain, while another slash of the
razor eau ght Snyder on the neck The
coppers had to slug the Negro into insen-
sibility.
The tussle between the Negro and the
police attracted huge crowd As the |