Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-22
Young Desperadoes Rain Bull
lets From Speeding Con-
veyances on Whites During
Continuation of Riots
4 DEAD, 10 WOUNDED;
MANY SLIGHTLY HURT
Fighting With Tooth and Nail
Woman Protects Herself
From Injury Although Most
of Clothing Is Torn From
Her Body


of the race riots and crime
wave i'll the national capital to-
day and President Wilson was
asked to declare martial law
and police the city with troops,
in resolutions introduced in the
House of Representatives Clark,
Democrat, of Florida, and
Vailc. Republican, of Colorado,
respectively.
Soon after noon the nearest
official estimate of last nights
rioting stood at five dead, ten
expected to die, scores of lesser
wounded or injured and the
cases of 175 rioters dockcted in
the police courts.
Washington, July %. - Another
night of race rioting found the ma
tional capitol to-day counting the
largest casualty list it has had since
soldiers, sailors, marines and civilians
began retaliating on the negro pop
ulation for the long list of daylight
holdups and attacks on white women
which has alarmed the city.
Four known dead, two mortally
wounded, eight or more seriously
hurt, an unknown number slightly
wounded or injured in the fighting,
and police stations and hospitals
packed with others, are the results
of the most disorderly times the
national capital has experienced
probably since the Civil War.
Although reinforced with provost
guards of troops and squadrons of
cavalry patrolling Pennsylvania ave-
nue., the police apparently were un-
able to cope with the situation as
they were when during the cele-
brated demonstration of March 3,
1918, when the crowd completely
overran them and all but mobbed
the suffragists parading on Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
Dodge Police
The score of casualties in last
nights fighting was largely in favor
of the negroes, who, when the extra
strong Gordon of police and troops
quieted Pennsylvania avenue and the
downtown section transferred their
activities to the lesser guarded dis
tricts.
From trolley cars and swiftly
moving automobiles negro desper-
ADDE'S in parties, singly and in pairs
rained revolver shots into groups OF
whites whenever they found them,
and all night there was scattered
nring from houses in which negroes,
terror stricken, but not quelled. had
barricade themselves.
To-day the local authorities are
comforting with War Department
onclals on measures to stop the riot
ing. Suggestions are being made
that troops be brought in to thor
oughly guard the city which the
police maintain they are unable to
40 because of insufficient mum bers.
Another Woman Assaulted
The first police report of tie day
told OF another white woman as
sauIted and injured by a negro at
capitol Heights. a suburb to the
northeast of the city. The negro who
had loitered about the woman,s
house all yesterday, was first scared
away and then hiding behind a hedge
seized her as she passed by late
last night. The woman was prac-
tlcally disrobed in her struggle with
ner assallant who escaped after she
had scratched and bitten him badly
Harry Wilson, the first detective
Killed, was shot by a 17-year-oId
negress, who had opened fire from
the second floor of a residence near
Second and G streets, southeast. a
second negress opened fire from the
ground floor of a house across the
alley when the police and guards
men rushed the house which the
first was holding. Thompson, the
second detective to die, was wound
ed during the clash. Only one ar
rest was made as a result of the
attack, the young negress, who was
shot through the hips.
The negress, a girl of about II
years, also was shot but not fatally.
In another part of the city a black
firing from a garage door kept a
provost guard of soldiers, sailors
and marines at bay for several min
utes, but finally. was shot down.
Many clashes occurred between
whites and blacks on street cars,
One negro attacked on the back end
of car. firing into the crowd fol-
lowing the car and wounded four
persons, but finally was stopped by
city detective. who was reported
to have sent several bullets into the
negro's body. Each of the four
white men were only slightly
wounded.