The Washington times., 1919-07-22
FOUR DEAD, SCORES
WOUNDED IN NIGHT
OF RED TERROR HERE


nston last night reapng death roll of four and list of
wounded running into the hundreds.
Bands of whites and blacks hunted each other like
clansmen throughout the night the bloodeud growing
steadily From mig htfa nearly dawn ambuIances bore
their steady stream of dead and wounded to the hospitals
BRAVE DETECTIVE KILLED.
The red night cost Washington the lives Of
aseous policeman, Detective Sergeant Wilson, of the
Headquarters staff.
Wilson was shot through the heart by frebrand ne
gro girl Carrie Minor johnson, seventeen, turned to
shining from the window of her home, 220
street northwest detective decided to go up and get
her. He broke Opn the door and reached the stairs when
4 bullet feled him.
Inspector Grant hurried Wilson. to an automobile,
which flashed down Pennsylvania at terrific speed
The machine sded beyond control and In front OF the
Willard it Ieaed the street platforms and crashed into
store front near Polls Theater Wilson died his way to
Emergency Hospital probably before the accident.
MANY ARE WOUNDED.
The death of Wilson came at the climax of a night
of terror and bleodShed.
Long before midnight the number of the wounded had
mounted into scores and though the early morning hours
brought lul it by no means put an end to the rlotlng
The hospitals crowded. Emergency alone having thr-
ty-Seven victims. .-~
There no precedent in WaShington's history for such
race riot as this and the fawabdng element of the town
was amazed at the sight Of law and order topPed over
the flame of the sinister passions engendeTedn the past
forty-eight hours. e. J.. -:
Police stations became refuge centerS for terrified fam
lies of both races oS congegated Sulleny street cars
and automobiles were stoned revoverS were shot almost
at random fists and knives were used in pitched fights be-
tween gangs which welcomed the chance OF mixing it, and
police and the military who paroed various sections trust
ed largely to kindly Providence to saving the city utterly
from the horrors of mob rule.
EARLY SIGNS OF TROUBLE
The forecast of vicious night early-before 7
o'clock when the whole negro section cenered at Seventh
and u streets northwest seemed afame with mob anger
over the invasion of their normally placid neghborhood by
military police.
Hundreds of them herded together fearfully with
their eaSyred blood aShed to fury by the slick talk of
few riot leaders, who nursing grudgeS and mobiliz
ing pent-up race consciousness
Along street the bands of blacks moved ueasy gaining
recruits the sulen whispers spread and within an hour mob
of more than in march.
streets northwest stoned it, and tried to rough the motorman
From the Eighth precinct IN station II block distant police
of the negroes tried to gain possession of poiceman club;
drawn, but no blood was shed
- OUTBREAKS TEROUH SECTION
Then street seehed with minor riots running from Four
teent street through New Jersey and all the
of settlements between and there sporadic outbreaks at
tended by casualties all through the section
seemed the focal point the generating center Of the whole
spirit of midsummer mob madness which spaShed all the
The mob stood menacingy in front of the Eighth
The whites neghborhood had observed the gathering of
the negroes and scented trouble.
baw at Seventh and Streets involving the woundng of
several persons reported Forty marines reached the precinct
to assist the at 9 o'clock.
Then the situation in the northwest Gained down somewhat
and almost to fever pitch other Sectonnoceaby in
the southwest where guerrilla warfare and cubstone Snpmg with
various missiles continuous throughout the night
At Second and streets northwest, ugly mob congre-
gated but did violence and fragment of its force under
police dispersal moved into the downtown section where the
crowds grew hour by hour
In the early evening the whites the great majority
with soldiers and marines parojng everywhere but after the
heaerS and movies had been eped and the traffic of an
ordinary July evening had vanished there was tye reap
peaTance of blacks steadily increasing in number.
Attacks Salvation Army headquarters
bes kept phones antcay than three
anabulanees changing necessarily in all parts Of town
At times the mob both sides of the coorne
staged fine Machavelan hand back of them and
pulling the wires
few minutes later organized seemed spntered into
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