The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-24
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TOLL OF RIOT
BROUGHT ON
BY NEGROES
Black Regulars Terrorize
Houston-Search for Mu-
tineers Continues-One
Officer Killed.
QUIET IS RESTORED

HOUSTON. Aug. 24.-The death list
resulting from rioting of negro sol
diers of the Gath Infantry last night
reached seventeen when H. A. Thomp-
son, Of Hemstead, Texas, succumbed
to bullet wounds he received when
the negroes fired into his automobile.
The sixteenth victim was E. NJ.
Jones, jitney driver, whose body was
found near Camp Logan shortly be-
fore noon. His right arm was almost
severed by bayonet strokes. There
were numerous bullet wounds in his
body.
Three companies of coast artillery
regulars from F't Crockett REINFORCED
the 900 or more Illinois guardsmen
today and order which was restored
|early this morning is being maintained.
Roll call this morning by Major Snow
in command of the battalion of ne
groes developed 125 men were absent
Eighteen Give Up.
Eighteen Of these have surrendered
and others are being rounded up by
the military patrols as the search pro
crosses.
Under military law, It was stated.
soldiers may be shot for having rioted
and fired on their officers.
All street cars carry armed guards,
all shops selling ammunition are
guarded and saloons are closed.
Captain Mates, Illinois national
guard officer, who was slain by the
negroes, was mutilated almost beyond
recognition. Feeling among the Hi
nois troops is running high and reg
uIaE from Fort Crockett at Calves
ton have been rushed here.
He Tried To Quiet EN-.
He was shot to death while trying
to quiet the negro soldiers who were
firing on soldiers and civilians. He
was badly mutilated, his right arm be-
ing cut off and his scalp almost torn
away.
After the troops rounded up the ne
groes it was found about seventy OF
the riotous men were missing.
The Dead:
Ira D. Rainey, mounted police Of
ficer.
Rufe Daniels, mounted police Off
Ger.
Middle Aged Man, named Smith.
S. Satton. barber.
Capt J. w Mates. Battery A, Sec
ond Illinois Field Artillery.
E. J. Meinke, police officer.
Earl Finley.
A. R. Carstena, painter.
Manuel Garredo.
Fred E. Winkler.
BRYANT Watson, negro soldier COM
pany K. oath infantry.
NJ. D. Everton, member Of local ar
tiIlery battery.
c. w. Wright.
The Wounded:
William J. Drucks, condition criti-
cal.
w. H. Burkett, shot in left leg, SER
ious.
E. A. Thompson, Of Hampstead. shot
in leg.
J.E Richardson, shot in head
Asa Bland. shot over left eye.
Wylie Strong, negro private Co. I,
oath negro infantry, shot in right side
accidentally by another soldier OF his
company.
Horace Moody. mounted police.
wounded in left leg.
D. R. Patten. mounted police off,
Ger, six bullet wounds in hip, thigh.
leg and shoulder.
Samuel Foreman Of Livingston, Co.
F, fifth Texas Infantry, shot in leg.
James Edwin Lyon, shot in leg and
arm.
Unidentified negro soldier. shot
through abdomen.
Unidentified negro soldier, shot in
leg.
G. w Butcher, shot in chest
w. A. Thompson, shot through right
hip; condition serious.
City Detective T. A. Binford, shot in
knee.
Alma Reichart, white girl, shot in
stomach.
George Beavans, negro soldier
wounded in leg.
That the list Of dead and wounded
would grow as the daylight search
progressed, seemed certain.
The dead police officers were
among the first to reach the rioting
negroes. Rufe Daniels helped TO
make the arrests yesterday that led
directly to the riot.
Officers Daniels and Rainey were
killed and Moody, Wilson and Patton
were wounded a considerable time
after the outbreak started.
Patton and Long were mounted,
and Moody. Wilson, Carter and Dri-
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