The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-23

Wagner TO get nm away from 'he
sccnc of his crime fearing a lynch
lng. Just as the negro was utica
into the automobile the mob broke
loose and the negro was literally
rlddled with bullets. There were
probably fifty shots fired into his
body
\ state 1i terror existed in Coweta
Sunday night. The sherifs OF WaS.
oner, Muskogee and Tulsa counties
sent help to the town and every possi'
BILE means is being used to prevent
further outbreak, which the citizens
fear is inevitable. Negro emissarieS
have hurried out to surrounding ne
gro settlements swearing that they
will bring in enough negroes to wipe
the town OFF the map before morning.
They propose TO set it on fire.
Call in Negroes.
One negro woman set out for Red
Bird, declaring She would have all
Red Bird down on Coweta before
mornng.R .Reb Bird is an exclusively
negro town City Marshal Virgil Hurl
started after the woman as soon as he
found she had started to Red Bird,
hoping to arrest her before she reach
ed the town
The trouble started late Saturday
afternoon. A young man named SWa-
ger, telegraph operator for the Katy
railroad at Coweta, was walking along
the street with ayoung woman. \ ne
gro, Ed Ruse in passing pushed the
girl off the sidewalk into themud
Swazer Immediately struck at the ne.
gro, and another white man, whose
name is being kept secret, seized the
negro and Swazer gave him beating.
Sunda Ruse walked the streets
Of Coweta with long knife in his
pocket looking 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 Hurl and the latter
shot him. At that instant Ed Sud
deth ran out of house on the oppo'
site side of the street and opened fire
with an automatic revolver. ID. J.
Beavers was shot through the head
and died instantly. Oliver and Thomp.
son were shot through the body. All
! three were bystanders and had taken
no fart in the trouble.
General Riot Follows.
The shooting became general and
| forty or fifty shots were fired. Sud
! deth, who had shot three white men,
| fled to house and barricaded him
self A white posse opened fire on
! this house and set il on fire. Suddeth
ran out and was shot. but it is not
! believed fatally. He then was taken to
! about his neck and he was swung up.
1t was decided that to lynch him
would probably bring on an instant
war with the negro population of
Coweta, and he was cut down before
he was dead. He is being guarded 10.
night in vacant building,
Coweta is a town of 1900 One.third
of the population is negroes. 1t is To-
Gated in a section of Wagner county
largely populated with negroes. A
prominent business man IN Coweta
stated Sunday night over the phone
that if the negroes organized they
could have 1000 armed negroes in
Coweta before morning. He 'phoned ,
Muskogee TO state that the whites
were neither well organized or armed. I
They have shotguns and siXshooters,
but not enough Winchesters. They
also are short on ammunition.
We have been expecting to have
a fight for our lives now for two years
and tonight | believe it has come. -
said this man. He also stated that he
believed the night would bring a ne
gro attack upon the town and that
threats had been made that 1t would
be set on fire. The town has no fire
protection