Race Riot at Charleston.
. . Two Negroes Killed and 17 Wounded. . . Seven Sailors Injured
Two negroes were killed and at least 17 others were wounded
severely enough to be treated at the municipal hospital in the rioting in
Charleston Saturday night and early Sunday morning between sailors and white
civilians on one side and negroes on the other, it was established by city and
county authorities. Seven bluejackets also are reported to have been wounded.
Reports concerning the origin of the trouble are
conflicting. The police however say that, according to the best information
they have been able to obtain the rioting was precipitated when the negro Isaac
Doctor was fatally wounded after he had shot a sailor. The bluejackets have
refused to say what they know about this occurrence, the police say. The negro
prisoners and patients also have professed ignorance of it.
Just how word of the disorders spread so rapidly among the sailors
on leave in the city has not been explained, but about 2,000 of them appeared
in a very few minutes after their comrade was shot, and started on a hunt
shouting “get the negroes.” In the clean-up that followed several innocent
negroes fell the victim of the anger of the bluejackets. One was dragged from a
Broad street car in spite of the motorman’s efforts to save him; another was dragged
from a King street car and shot down in front of a crowded and fashionable café,
while a third, a chauffeur, was yanked from his automobile. This so terrorized
the negro chauffeurs that they refused to take out taxicabs until daylight.
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