The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-05-15
CHARLESTON RIOT
COSTS TWO LIVES
NEGROES KILLED IN CLASH WITH
BLUEJACKETS.
Number Badly,Hurt
Navy Authorities Conduct Searching
Investigation into Race Trou-
BILE Saturday Night.


confusion on the heels of the rioting
here late last night and early this
morning, it is established by city and
county authorities today that two ne
groes, James Talbert and Isaac Dock
tor, are dead and at least II negroes
sufficiently wounded to be treated in
the municipal hospital. Seven blue
jack 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 au-
thorities are carrying forward a
searching investigation into the seri-
Gus disorders between bluejackets
and negroes.
John G. Mansfield, county coroner,
who has ordered inquests into the
deaths of Docktor and Talbert, is
carefully collecting the evidence in
these cases. The rioting was precip-
itated after the fatal wounding of
Docktor, who is alleged to have as
saulted and shot a bluejacket.
Charleston was agog today with
comment on the rioting. The police
department has taken precautions
against recurrence, even though
bluejackets are not permitted in
town. While the negro population
appears 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 morn
ing was done through the co-opera-
ton of Rear Admirals Francis E..
Beatty and Benjamin G. Bryan, COM
mandant of the Sixth naval district,
and of the navy yard, respectively,
with Major Tristram 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 height of the rioting
there is remarkable assortment of
weapons, ranging from pistols and
rifles down to brickbats.
A bullet Saturday night wounded a
negro girl on an up town street. She
and her companion were a consider
able distance from the rioting and it
is supposed that the wound was in
flicted by bullet that had been fired
into the air. Her name was not re-
corded, as the wound was not seri-
Gus.
With respect to the origin of the
rioting, reports are conflicting, but it
appears that Violent trouble broke
out after quarrel between Docktor
and several bluejackets on Beaufain
street, near Charles. Bluejackets re-
fused to say what they knew about
it and negro prisoners and patients
nrofessed their ignorance.
Just how word Of the disorder
spread so rapidly among the blue
Jackets in town on leave is not ex-
plained, but in a very few minutes
about 1000 we're in the mob which
shouted: "Get the negroes" and sim
liar phrases. According to the police
and other reports, several of Their
victims were innocent of any offense
to the bluejackets. One was dragged
out of Broad street car in spite of
the motorman's effort to save him.
Another was dragged from a King
street car and shot down in front of
a fashionable restaurant, which was
crowded at the time. A third was
yanked from a motor touring car of
which he was chauffeur. Until dawn
negro chauffeurs refused to take out
cars and the taxi business was broken
down for about six hours.