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Killed (5)
Police shot two of the Black men, James Thompson and Lloyd Hobbs, while there are few details of the circumstances in which the Andrew Lyons was killed. As the result of an incorrect police notification, a fourth Black man, Lyman Quarterman, was widely reported as having been killed early in the disorder. Although shot and seriously wounded enough to spend approximately two weeks in Harlem Hospital, he did recover.
Some uncertainty exists about the two white men. August Miller is included among those killed as newspapers reported his death and the MCCH investigated it, although an autopsy they obtained indicates he died of natural causes, a cerebral Hemorrhage. But that autopsy does not appear to have been reported in the press. The second white man, Thomas Wijstem, unconscious after being assaulted, is reported as severely injured in the aftermath of the disorder and not subsequently included in lists of those killed. However, three months after the disorder, a brief story in New York Herald Tribune reported Wijstem had died in Bellevue Hospital without regaining consciousness after suffering a fractured skull in an assault.
All those killed suffered their injuries in the vicinity of 125th Street.