RACE RIOTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 16, 16 July 1910, Page 9

RACE RIOTS.

. jyiOLENT OUTBURSTS. \ u.y — ; *$?■ NEW YORK, July-5. V' la-the frenzy of delight with which jtey-have greeted the news of their brouigjjg victory over his white rival, the ■ jie'crriies pretty well all over the country jjave'broken out with more or less violence. a consequence riots were the order - 'pf the day and night. Reports so far to hand show that up-n-aros ot " a dozen negroes and whites " tave been killed, and that hundreds have ■ injured. In some cases the blacks were most jriolently aggressive. This was especially evident "in Washington. The negro popu- | la'tion of this city is reckoned to be 10,000. a Within an hour of Jeffries' defeat besoming known, 7000 whites and blacks jfere in conflict. .-'■ Hundreds *f-drunken niggers savagely assailed white men, even going so far as 'm enter their homes. st.Qne outrageous assault was that perwtrated by three negresses, who invaded blouse, and dragging two white women jjto'-the street,' stripped them of every' jhred of clothing. JJH the police were called out, and it Tjras more than once thought the Federal , jtroops- would have -to be summoned to "nnell the outbreak. The rioting con*Jinned through the night, and daylight jfgiff not hring any cessation of hostilities. • Many arrests were made, and at least rßflO blacks* .are in gaol. r-v Another place in which racial feeling jfaa very high was Fort Worth, Texas. 1 tHere also did the blacks get beyond cont :troVbut the most shocking of the many ;'*ct3.-of violence and excesses committed "lsn Bus town was the attack made by upon two white women, who | jjrere beaten to death. In the riots at Shreveport, Louisiana, \thiee negroes and one white were killed, j I \imd' scores' injured. . Wilmington, Delaware, TOe whites, -il&e're so "infuriated at the conduct of the pggers that wholesale lynching of the jjaiter was attempted.

Tie police, however, were able to prejjfefifc" anything of this kind actually takyfiag place. .' ' _ -. i Sis blacks and one \rhite man were siJflleiTat Roanoke, Virginia, and at the j iiloseiof a- disturbance in- Omaha* it was found thai one black had. been fatally iinjured. i\. In New Orleans the riots vere of .exceptional violence among .the people who tgafhered outside the bulletin boards at newspaper offices to wateb. the projtaKs<)f the Reno City battje. \ Kfiives and revolvers ■were freely used, !8I twenty persons Men w tiw •%tr\=Y*Z-kn T sla-slied. or shot. ,-.*jipwards of 100 "people -were Inpiredl 1 J|iSQ Oj. Onop jn] α^ca: TTrf Torini ])#ui^Sti?t9 4e called out to suppress the riots in the ■negro section, between Seven-tii and XeziiJa ifvenues.