Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — RIOTERS SHOT DOWN. [ARTICLE]

RIOTERS SHOT DOWN.

Galveston Policemen Quell a Mob of' Negro Dock Strikers. The negro ’longshoremen employed by the Mallory line at Galveston, Texas* •truck for an increase of 10 cents per hour, and when a special train from Houston arrived with a lot of imported laborers, a mob of 2,000 men, mostly no.groes, gathered about the Mallory wharf and tried to get at the newcomers. Mayo* Fly called on the mob to halt No attention was paid to him. He fired five shots and two men dropped. The mob then fell back, an ambulance was summoned, and when it arrived the mob agptd advanced. They were armed with clubs and rocks, and a few had pistols. The poUse fffed to force them back by clubbing those sh front, but It did not avail. The officers were being overpowered when the Mayor ortfervd them to fire. They obey- j ed and five men ftp. Then the mob fled. Gov. Culberson asked President McKinley to order the Galveston regiment ror riot duty.