The evening world., 1917-08-24
MORE THAN 100 NEGRO
SOLDIERS ROUNDED UP
FOR KILLING Is WHITES
Continued from First PaEsJ
many places with bayonets. The body
was almost unrecognizable.
MEN BEYOND CONTROL AZ
MAJOR TRIED TO CURE THEM.

MEN BEYOND CONTROL As
MAJOR TRIED TO CURB THEM.
Major X. 4. Snow. comma nding the
negro troops guarding Camp Logan.
declared that he attempted 10 control
the men when he saw what was
about TO happen. but they were
beyond control and some $50 OF them
started 20 shoot promIscuousiy In the
camp and soon scattered in every
direction"
AN attempt was made to XIII me-"
he declared.
According 20 police report, the
origin OF the trouble was the arrest
Of negro woman in the downtown
section. A negro soldier asked that
the prisoner be turned over to him
and a refusal led TO to an argument,
tho soldier finally being taken TO
Police Headquarters.
A little later another negro soldier
approached the policemen and asked
concerning the first man. When told
that the negro was at Headquarters
more words followed. and this negro
also was sent to Headquarters.
Previously the negroes had re-
ported the happening TO their officers.
A conference followed between Police
Superintendent Brock and army Of
Ulcers. which led to an order being
issued to the effect that tho negro
a. IL.
troops by members of the Police De-
partment
Evidence Of tho brewing riot be-
came apparent in the evening and
Major Snow. IN command OF the
troops, received word that the negroes
had entered the ammunition tents and
armed themselves
He attempted to quell the negroes.
but they were already beyond control
and had begun to shoot at random
while marching toward the city.
FIFTEEN-YEAR-oLD GIRL THE
FIRST VICTIM.
II was not until the negroes reached
the Reichert store at Washington
Avenue and Sandman Road that the
taking of life began. Alma Reichert.
ffteen years old. the first victim, was
shot by a stray bullet. II is believed.
She had sought safety in her fathers
store.
A block further south Fred Win
kler was killed and w. ]. Drucks seri-
ously injured.
Sixteen truckloads OF Federallzed
National Guardsmen were rushed to
the seat OF the trouble, and all the
streets were put under heavy patrol.
More than 100 armed negro SOL
diers were said to have hid under
buildings in the vicinity Of West End
Baseball Park and with their high
powered army rines pursued sniping
tactics for a time.
After the troops rounded up the
negroes II was found that seventy OF
the riotous mon were missing.
The dead are Ira d. Rainey, mount
ed police officer; Rufe Daniels. mount
cd police officer. Horace Moody.
mounted policeman. a middle-aged
man named Smith; S. Satton, barber;
Capt. ]. w, Mates, Battery A, Sec
ond Illinois Field Artillery; II. j.
Meinke, police ofiiceT; Earl Finley,
A. II. Carstens, painter; Manuel Gar
redo. Fred f. Winkler. Bryant Wat
son. negro soldier OF Company X
Thirty-fourth Infantry; NJ. d, Ever
ton. member OF local artillery bat
tery, and G. w. Wright
The wounded are: William ]
Drucks, condition critical; w II. Bur.
kett, shot in left leg. serious: e. A
Thompson, Hampstead, shot In leg;
Il. Richardson. shot in head: Ass
Bland. shot over left eye; wyllt
Strong, negro private, Company I
Twenty-fourth Infantry, shot in righ
side accidentally by another soldier o.
his company, not serious; ID. II. Pat.
! ton, mounted police officer, sll
bullet wounds In hip. thigh, lel
1 and shoulder; Samuel Foreman o
I Livingston, Company +, Fifth Texas
Infantry, shot in leg; James Edwin
Lyon, shot in leg and arm: unident!
fled negro soldier shot through abdo
men; unidentified negro soldier, sho
in leg; q, w. Butcher, shot in chest
w. A. Thompson, shot through righ
hip, serious; City Detective Il. A. Bin
II ford, shot In knee; Alma Reichert
a. white girl, shot in stomach: Georg
y. Beavens, negro soldier, wounded in lce
N LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED
"a "a EXPECTED TO GROW.
n That the list OF dead and wounde
.e would grow as the daylight scare
y progressed seemed certain.