Down the Street
This file appears in: Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
On the afternoon of October 27, 1894, white screwmen launched a coordinated and violent attack on the Black screwmen.Forty-year-old Andrew Holmes attempted to flee, and ran out onto the levee at First Street, but was gunned down by white screwmen.
This file appears in: Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
Gun smoke mingled with steam rising from smokestacks of British ships docked along the levee. Rifle shots replaced the usual sounds of the port. The rattling of carts and longshoremen singing shanteys…