Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-04

r1unoreo SnotS Tired
 Following a series of fusillades in which more than a hundred shots were fired, and Al negroes were placed under arrest and disarmed by Chief of Police J. A. Kempton and his force assisted by Deputy Sheriff Joe Hardwick. quiet was restored at midnight. by which time the army of, ficers, summoned from a dance in their honor at the Warren Country Club, had arrived in Bisbee. The ar rested negroes were turned over to their custody by the police, and re. turned in charge of the officers to their camp outside the city.
 The negroes, comprising 500 men of the 10th United States Cavalry. were here from Fort Huachuca, un- der command of Colonel George P. White, to lead the parade for the Fourth of July celebration here. Three hundred of the negroes were in Bisbee when the trouble started, the remaining 800 being in camp on the outskirts of the city.
 Says Negroes intoxicated
 AhO AAOb Woo GU lU o'clock in the evening when George Sullivan, white, military policeman of the 18th United States Infantry stationed at Douglas, was passing by a negro club in upper Brewery Gulch known as the Silver Leaf club. while on duty. Five negro cavalrymen, ac, cording to Sullivan and other wit nesses, made a taunting remark as he passed. Seeing they were intoxi- cated, Sullivan says, he told them they had better go home.
 The negroes, Sullivan says, drew revolvers, knocked him down, and took his own weapon from him. Sev- eral civilians started to his aid, and the negres fled.
 The negroes then went to the po- lice station and told Chief Kempton that civilians were trying to run suggested that they leave their weap- ons with him in the station. They refused, saying they were permitted by their officers to carry them, and left, still armed
 Begin General Disarminq
 Chief Kempton, Deputy Sheriff Hardwick and Officer Wm. Sherill then started up Brewery Gulch to disarm all negroes they could find. |
 As they approached the Silver Leaf | club. officers say, five other negroes | came out of the club and without a | word of warning opened fire upon | them.
 One bullet struck Hardwick in the ! arm, inflicting a slight flesh wound. | Other bullets struck a brick wall. scattering brick dust in the eyes of | the officers, who were handicapped | in returning the fire, which they did until their guns were empty.
 The last shot which Sherill fired | struck one of the negroes in the back of the neck, and he fell
 The officers returned to the police station for additional guns and ann intuition. When they started back up the gulch a second time they en- an auto in which were six negroes, and ordered it to stop. The negroes, stopping the auto opposite the depot building, opened fire on the officers. Deputy Sheriff Hardwick and Officer Sherill returned the fire, Derforating the curtains the ma chine.
 One bullet richochetting, struck Mexican woman, Teresa Leyvas of Bisbee, who was standing in the de- pot waiting for a train. the bullet en- .ering the right side of her head. The wound is not dangerous, physicians who removed the bullet declared.
 Negroes Surrender
 After the first volley by the off, 'ers, the negroes ceased firing and held up their hands in token of sur render, They were all placd in jail.
 After this the rounding up of