The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-10-23
TWO Are
KILLED in
RACE WAR
Fifty Shots Exchanged in
BattIe-One Back
is LynChed
Telegram By United Press.

Telegram by united Fress.
Coweta, Okla. Oct. 2s-Martial
law prevails here today following the
shooting of a negro yesterday by an
infuriated mob after he had killed
one white man. and wounded two
others.
It is thought that the presence OF
the national guards from Muskogee
will prevent further outbreaks on the
part Of blacks.
Soldiers are patroling the streets
with bayonets fixed and rifles loaded.
Muskogee, Okla, Oct 2s.%-One
white man is dead two fatally wound
ed, one negro dead. one shot, and
more trouble expected momentarily as
a result Of a race riot at Coweta. a
town twenty miles northwest Of Mus
kogee. Sunday afternoon. The dead
white man is J. d. Beavers, city attor-
ney Of coweta and candidate in the
last election for prosecuting attorney
or Wagner county. The two wound
ed men are Carmen Oliver and stellar
Thompson. Both were shot through
the body and have little chance for
recovery.
Ed Ruse, the negro who started the
trouble. was shot but not fatally
wounded and Ed suddeth. the negro
Who killed Beavers and wounded the
other two men also was shot but not
killed. After he had been shot he
was strung up to the water tank AZ
the railroad station but the rope was
cut before he was dead. Then cooler
advice prevailed and under promise
that Suddeth would be legally hanged
within thirty days. the mob agreed to
let the negro live If he does not die
Of his wounds.
At O'Clock Sunday night suddeth.
the negro who shot three white men,
was turned over to Deputy Sheriff
Flowers. Flowers had an automobile
and endeavored to take suddeth to
Wagner to get him away from the
scene Of his crime, fearing lynch
ing. Just as the negro was lifted in
to the automobile the mob broke loose
and the negro was literally riddled
with bullets. There were probably
fifty shots fired into his body
District Judge W. r. Allen, who was
in Coweta Sunday night. and Sheriff
James Long. Of Wagner county, have
called upon the state militia for pro-
lection for the town. Captain W. Al.
Green Of company r, Muskogee, as
sembled the company at the armory
here and took out fifty men at II
O'Clock.
| The trouble started late Saturday
afternoon. A young man named
swazer. telegraph operator for the
Katy railroad at Coweta, was walking
along the street with young woman.
! A negro, Ed Ruse, in passing pushed
the girl off the sidewalk into the
mud. swazer Immediately struck at
the negro and another white man.
whose name is being kept secrets
seized the negro and swazer gave him
beating.
On Sunday Ruse was walking the
streets of Coweta with long knife
in his pocket lsDking for the man
who held him. City Marshal Hurl
went to the negro in the afternoon and
ordered him to give up the knife. The
negro started to attack HufI and the
latter shot MIN. At that instant Ed
suddeth ran out Of house on the 0p-
posite side Of the street and opened
fire with an automatic revolver. d
J. Beavers was shot through the head
and died instantly Oliver and Thomp
son we're shot through the body All
three were bystanders and had taken
no part in the trouble.
The shooting became general and
forty or fifty shots were fired.