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Injured (73)
Photographers from the NYDN and Daily Mirror also chose to focus on the injured. Published images span the period from injury to treatment – a white man knocked to the ground (NYDN Hit by Object page); an white man waiting for an ambulance (Daily Mirror); a doctor treating a black man in a police precinct (NYDN); officers carrying a stretcher (NYDN); doctors treating a black man and a black woman in Harlem Hospital (NYDN), a room of people recuperating in hospital beds (NYDN & DM); a bandaged white woman leaving the hospital (NYDN Hit by Object page); and a white woman at home (DM- Nadish)
Aside from the 53 assaulted, an additional 20 appear in sources as injured. One common cause of injury, flying glass (5/20), was clearly distinguished from the wounds suffered when assaulted. Others listed as injured had the same head injuries and lacerations suffered by those assaulted, but no information as to the circumstances of the injury. Some of these individuals could have been injured when knocked off their feet in the crowds on Harlem’s streets, a circumstance captured in several photographs of the disorder, including the most widely circulated. Most of this group of injured received their wounds around the heart of the disorder, in the blocks around 125th Street, but there are a cluster along Lenox Avenue up as far north as 132nd Street. This area saw the most extensive attacks on stores and looting; it was also relatively easily accessible from Harlem Hospital, on Lenox Avenue between 136th and 137th Streets. The one injury outside this area, Giles Jackson hurt by flying glass at West 116th Street and 7th Avenue, also occurred in an area that saw significant amounts of looting and broken windows. The map also reveals that the injured lived relatively close to where they got hurt;, which could indicate they were bystanders drawn to the streets from their homes by the disorder but not participating in it.
Three woman are among the 20 injured. One, Clara Crowder, is anomalous. A (white?) clerk at Kress’ store, Crowder fainted in the crush of the crowd inside the store who initially reacted to reports Rivera had been beaten or killed. The other injured (unknown race) women appear to have been part of the crowds on Harlem’s streets. Most of those injured are not identified by race; of the four that are, two of the three white individuals were injured in anomalous situations, Crowder fainting in a store, Dondoro accidentally shot by police (the third white individual, Salvatore Nicolette, suffered a fractured skull in unspecified circumstances).