The Lambertville record., 1919-08-01
FATAL RACE RIOT
IN WASHINGTON
Troops Rushed From One Point
to Another to Quell Mob
Attacks.
CITY UNDER PROVOST GUARD.
Two Detectives and Negro Killed in
New Clash; Army Called Upon
to Restore Order Cavalry
Charges Through Streets.

shington.-Renewed race fights
all over Washington resulted in proba-
bly, forty casualties. Two detectives
and four negroes are among the dead,
half a dozen others, including a ma
rine, are mortally injured and the
rest are variously shot, stabbed and
beaten.
This despite the fact that the war,
navy and police departments collabo-
rated on plans to prevent a continual
ton of the riots. Two troops Of
cavalry and 200 marines co-operated
with the police.
The trouble started in the negro
quarter in the southwest section of
the city. There the negroes got the
worst of it. They made reprisals al
the edge of the negro section, north
west, beating and robbing white men,
but actually there was no section of
the city exempt from the scattering
fights.
The most sanguinary of these oc-
cured on Pennsylvania avenue, right
in front of the White House and
Treasury, where a marine was fatally
shot, another stabbed, and the three
negroes concerned in the shooting
were themselves shot and beaten be-
fore the police rescued them.
Leaders in Congress said that in
quiries would be started to fix the
responsibility for the riots and to CON
slider means of preventing more dis
orders.
Harry Wilson, detective, was shot
and killed at Balls Alley, between
Second and Third streets, by negress
of about seventeen, who was shooting
from a window promiscuously. WIZ
son went to get the woman and she
put a bullet through his heart While
the ambulance was bringing in the
dead man it ran up ON the sidewalk
and injured a number of persons.
The negress, Carrie Minor Johnson,
was firing from her window. Six po-
licemen under Inspector Grant, broke
into the house. She had turned off
all the lights and when Wilson enter
ed the room where she was at bay
she shot him through the stomach He
died on the way to the hospital. The
girl was shot in the hip and fought all
the way to the police station.
At Seventh and f streets a negro
started firing into crowd from the
Op f,.,ta dot a
the fire and killed the black man. A
cavalry detachment riding up scatter
ed the crowd and stopped the riot at
chat point.
George Mentry, negro, displayed
pistol on street car. A passenger hit
and crouching there emptied his re-
volver into the crowd Albert Fin
laysOn, a white man, got one of the
bullets in the hip and Ernest Givon-
etti, thirteen-year-old boy, was shot
in the foot. A cavalryman rode up
and shot at the crouching negro, but
failed to stop him. A detective turn
ed loose and put five bullets into the
negro. Half a dozen persons were
more or less cut by glass from the
shattered car windows. The negro,
was carried to a hospital. He had his
pockets full of cartridges and remark
ed that he had come out prepared to
take care of himself.
Cavalry charges through the down
town streets, to disperse the crowds,
were frequent. The cavalrymen, with
sabres drawn, plunged into the thick
of the fights wherever they developed,
driving the negroes and whites 10
cover. The crowds scattered, only to
gather again block or so away and
continue the onslaught.