The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-09-17
Policemen QuelI Dis
turbance on Ship.

New York.. N. Y. Sept. 15.-A riot
among the mixed crew of the freigh
ter Chester Kirwanis quelled in mid
ocean only after strenuous efforts on
| the part of the ships officers, broke
\ out again with renewed fury as the
vessel lay at anchor off Stapleton,
Staten Island.
For several hours in the darkness
before dawn whites and blacks fought
each other bitterly abroad the freight
er. Calls for aid, sounded by the ves-
sells siren, went unheeded from the
sticks the short and not until the
police were called from Manhattan
by wireless could the mutiny be sup
pressed
A squad of patrolmen clambering up
the side of the freighter from the
end to the rioting. With nightsticks
the police lay on whites and blacks
alike. finally separating them and
sending them to their respective quar-
until they had obtained assurances
from the ringleaders of both factions
that fighting would be discontinued.
No shots were fired and some of the
Injuries. suffered either by the riot
ing, sailors or by the police was so
serious that hospital aid was requir-
! ed Not one of the fighters on either
side escaped some battering, however,
i ana many were IN sorry shape WntH
hostilities were finally called off.
Captain BIames White Sailors.
The white members of the crew
were responsible for the riot, Capt.
sci, said. He added that the whites
had been melting the Negroes all the
way across the Atlantic, usually in
vain attempts to get them to fight
first knew of the resumption Of hos
Titles last night when a Negro. badly
frightened. rushed up to his cabin and
said that the whites were attacking
the Negroes quarters again. He rush
ed below decks and into the forecas-
tie; but said he found everythinE
quiet.
Cunningham snid that he went to their
quarters, opening the door with his
left hand. Instantly his arm was
seized and one OF. the sailors hit him;
tearing his arm badly. Others seized
him and in q moment three of them
were beating him with their fists
and with steel instrument. He was
rescued, he. said, by Chief Engineer
That it took three men to beat the
captain Is easily believed, or, despite
the, fact that he wears glasses. he Is
and is in the prime of health. After
the attack. he said, he went to his
bin, and when the excitement aboard
| IhB VSSSel Olu not SuDSlue ne
the police by wireless
Capt. Cunningham would not pre-
fer charges against any of his crew.
He said he thought they had had
"enough'-and anyway, he intended
20 fire every mothers son OF 'em
tomorrow
Negroes Upheld by Captln.
The captains quarters were guarded
by two Negroes when the police ar
rived. The Negroes. the police learn
ed soon after their arrival, had the
support of the captain in all OF the
vessels toubles. This support aroused
the hostilities of the whites, who out
numbered the Negro sailors thirty
to twelve, and was the cause of most
of the rioting.
The Chester Kirwanis arrived from
Boulogne, France with a cargo of gen.
g. n merchandise last Saturday, an
choiing at some distance off Pier 13 in
the upper bay. She Is a Shipping
Board freighter of 3.700 tons, under
charter to j. w. Elwell C Co., of 81
State street.
Rioting among the members of the
crew had been sporadic ever since
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