The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-24
is ARE DEAD
IN BIC RIOT AT
HOUSTON, TEX.
Negro Troopers on Rampage
Over Police Discipline.
OF Killed, 13 Are Whites; IS
Victims Wounded.
125 RIOTERS CAPTURED TODAY
Rush $50 Coast Guards and
Regulars to Houston.
Camp Under Heavy Guard;
Quiet Now Prevails.
FEELING HIGH AMONG GUARDS
Illinois Soldiers Incensed Over
Staying of Captain
White Officers Body Mutilated
by RiOtOus Negroes.
Illinois Soldiers Incensed Over
Staying of Captain
White Officers Body Mutilated
by RiOtOus Negroes.
HOUSTON UNDER MILITARY LAW
$50 Negro Soldiers Run Amuck
and Shoot Up City.
Claim Abusive Police Aroused
Black L. $. Troopers.

Houston, Tex. Aug. 24.-By one
O'Clock today twenty-five of he negro
rioters had been placed in the Harris
county Jail here.
One Of this number who gave his
name as James Divine, of the Twen-
ty-fourtb United States infantry, had
$50 rounds of ammunition in his pos
session.
At least one hundred more negro
soldiers have been rounded up by
military forces, it was stated.
Sixteen are known to be dead, and
eighteen wounded, some probe bly,
fatally. as the result of last nights
negro troop rioting. latest figures up
to noon showed today. OF the sixteen
dead. thirteen are whites two are
negro troopers of the Twenty-fourth
United States infantry, and one
Mexican.
Captain J. w Mates, battery A.
Second Illinois field artillery, was the
only member of the Illinois National
Guard. stationed at Camp Logan, near
here. that was killed.
Find Jitney Driver Dead.
The rioting, according to best ac-
counts available, was caused by i'll
feeling bred among the negroes thru
the treatment accorded some of them
by city police Officers AS military
police, the negroes patrolled the en-
virons of the city when members
of the battalion were released from
the camp on pass. Several minor
clashes occurred between the white
p. eceding the riot resulting in the
arrest of two negro troopers for in
terfering when white police officer
arrested a negro woman.
The sixteenth victim was E. NJ.
Jones, jitney driver, whose body was
found near Camp Logan shortly be-
fore noon His fight arm was almost
severed by sabre strokes. There were
numerous bullet wounds in his body.
Houston. Aug. "a The revised list
of dead totals / 6 men instead of IL as
carrier reported. included, is Il negro
sergeant, Vida Henry. belieN ed TO have
been the ringleader in r. uprising.
His body was found riddled with buck
shot. about quarter of mile from
the camp limits.
Horace Moody. one of the wounded
police officers who suffe d amputa-
tiOn of the leg, died this morning.
T.. ]. Meineke. another pc ice officer,
is the fifteenth victim reported dead
today.
Houston. Aug. pat o'clock this
morning Houston was quiet, no fur
Their outbreaks having been reported
since the rounding up of mutinous
negro soldiers who last night killed
at least IA persons and wounded
eighteen. All street cars carry armed
guards, all ammunition houses are
guarded and saloons are closed.
Captain Mates. Illinois national
guard officer who was slain by the
negroes, was mutilated almost be-
yond recognition. Feeling among
the Illinois troops is running high
and regulars from Fort Crockett at
Galveston have been rushed here to
aid in preserving quiet.
At least IS white men are dead
here today. as the result of the out
break of / so negro members of the
Twenty-fourth L. S. infantry here
last right. Early today it was known
two of the negro participants had
been killed but it was said that posi-
bly, some would be found on the
prairie around Camp Logan which
the negro soldiers were sent here t.
guard while ii was being prepared as
rendezvous for national guard
troops.
Eighteen persons, including two
young white girls and three of the
riotous negroes were wounded. some
of them seriously.
Martial law was declared by Gov
ernor James f. Ferguson, effective ir
Houston and vicinity at l o'clock this
morning; All Texas guardsmen have
been federalized. however. and none
now is at his direct command.
Shot Out Lights I'm Houses.
The trouble is said to have been
begun late yesterday after some OF
the negro soldiers had complained OF
treatment accorded them by members
OF the Houston police force. About .
O'Clock last night some eighty negroes
formed at their camp and began q
march toward the business section OF
Houston. Lights in residences along
the way were shot out and a number
OF persons wounded as they sat inside
their houses. The first shooting, how
ever. is said to have been done within
the camp.
Crowds of Houston men with un.
med Texas guardsmen here started
'r he camp. but Stopped when al