A View of the River
This file appears in: Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
British crews docked their steamships along this stretch of the Mississippi River. White screwmen boarded the ships and destroyed the screwjacks of Black screwmen, throwing them overboard into the river below.
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…