The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-05-15
TWO NEGROES KILLED
IN CHARLESTON RIOT
SE,EN SAILORS ARE REPORTED
WOUNDED.
Navy Authorities Have Begun a
Searching Investigation Into
Race Trouble Saturday Night.

Charleston, May 12.-Out of the
confusion on the heels Of the riOtfng
here late Saturday night and early
Sunday morning it is established by :
city and county authorities today
that two negroes, James Talbert ana
Isaac Docktor, are dead and at least,
II negroes sufficiently wounded to-
be treated in the municipal hospital
Seven blue jackets are reported to
have been. wounded.
1t was learned today that the leave
of all bluejackets at the navy yard
and the naval training camp has been,
indefinitely cancelled, only those with
special permits to be allowed off their
reservations. Meantime the naval
authorities are carrying forward n.
searching investigation into the seri-
Gus disorders between bluejackets
and negroes,
John G. Mansfield, county coroner
who has ordered inQuests into the
deaths of Doctor and Talgert, is care
fully collecting the evidence in these
cases. The fighting was precipitated
after the fatal wounding of DocktoF,
who is alleged to have assaulted ana.
shot blue jacket.
Charleston was today agog with
comment on the rioting. The police
department has taken precautions
against recurrence, even though
blue jackets are not permitted IN
town. While the negro population ap-
pears to be quiet the authorities do
not propose to take any chances. Ma
rines from the navy yard barracks
will again patrol the streets should
this be considered necessary. The
patrol by marines in the early hours
this morning was done through the
cooperation Of Rear Admirals Fran
Gle E Beatty and Benjamin C. Bry-
an, commandant of the Sixth naval
district and of the navy yard. re-
spectively, with Mayor Tristan T.
Hyde.
Practically all the rifles taken by
bluejackets from shooting galleries
have been recovered. At the police
station where many persons were TAX
en- during the heights of the riotinG
there is remarkable assortment Of
weapons, ranging from pistols ap@
rifles down to brickbats.
A bullet Saturday night wounded q;
negro girl on an up town street. She
and her companion were consider
able distance from the rioting and it
is supposed that the wound was in-
flicted by a bullet that had been fired
into the air. Her name was not re-
corded as the wound was not sert-
Gus.
With respect to the origin OF the
rioting, reports are conflicting. but
it appears that violent trouble broke
after a quarrel between Docktor ana
several bluejackets on Beaufaip
Street near Charles Bluejackets re-
fused to say what they knew about ~
and negro prisoners and patients
professed their ignorance.
Just how word of the disorder
spread so rapidly among the blue
Jackets in town on leave is not ex--
planned, but in a very few minutes
about 1000 were in the mob which
shouted: "Get the negroes" ana
similar phrases. According to the
police and other reports several ok
their victims were innocent Of the
offense to the bluejackets. One was
dragged out Of a Broad Street car na
spite of the motorman's effort to sayts
him. Another was dragged from
King Street car, and shot down Ha
front of a fashionable restaurant
which was crowded at the time. f.
third was yanked from motor tour
ing car of which he was chauffeur
Until dawn negro chauffeurs refuseS
to take out cars and the taxi business
was broken down for about six hours