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Show RACE RIOTS AT TRE NATIONALCAPITOL CAVALRY, POLICE AND PROVOST GUARD BATTLE WITH ANGRY MOB IN STREETS. City Detective Slain and Three Patrolmen Patrol-men Hurt; Two Negroes Die From Wounds in Fighting. Three Killed. Washinglon. The known casualty toll of tin; met; riots which broke out In various sections of the national capital cap-ital Monday night, reached three killed and twelve .seriously wounded, besides numerous minor casualties inflicted by bricks anil other missies. In addition to the killing of one city detective and tin; fatal wounding of another by two negro women, three patrolmen had been wounded by negro rioters. Two negroes were dead and four others were reported to be dying. Harry Wilson ,a detective, was shot by a 37-year-old negress, who had opened fire from the second floor of a residence. A second negress opened fire from the ground floor of a house across the alley, when the police and guardsmen rushed the house which the first was holding. Thompson, second detective victim, was wounded during the clash. Only one arrest was made, the young negress who was shot through the hips. It was said by officials that the riots here were of a more serious nature than anything which hud occurred since the outbreaks during the period of the old "feather duster legislature," in the turbulent days after the civil war, before the present form of district government was organized. The outbreaks started Saturday night, following a series of attacks on white women, several murders, scores of robberies and general lawlessness. Several hundred soldiers, sailors and marines joined together Saturday night to search for a negro suspected of attacking the wife of an employee of the naval aviation bureau. Unable to find him, they made their way to the center of the city, where they vented vent-ed their anger on a negro they met. |
