Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24

started 10 shoot promisCuously in the
camp and soon scattered in every
direction.
Negroes Arm For Riot
Evidences OF the 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,
.ut they We're already beyond con-
troll and had begun to shoot at ran
com while marching toward the city.
II was not until the negroes reached
the Reichert store at Washington
avenue and Sandman road, that the
taking OF life began. Alma Reichert,
- years old. the first victim, was
shot by a stray bullet, it is believed,
as she had sought safety in her
fathers store
1t was a block further south. as the
negroes turned in that direction on
the Sandman road that Fred Wink
Ter was killed and W. j. Drucks Sc
riously injured.
Rush Guardsmen
Sixteen truCkloads of Federal Ma
tional Guardsmen were rushed to the
seat of the trouble, and all the streets
weer put under heavy patrol.
More than bne hundred armed
negro soldiers were said to have hid
under buildings in the vicinity of
West End baseball park and with
their high-powered army rifles, pur
sued sniping tactics for a time.
Among those killed was Captain
J. W. Mates, Battery A. Second IL
lionois field artillery. who arrived
here "a few days ago to prepare the
camp for the regiment which is still
in Chicago. He was shot to death
while trying TO quiet the negro SOL
dierS who We're firing on soldiers
and civilians. He was badly mutil-
ated, his right arm being cut off and
his scalp almost torn away.
After the troops rounded up the
| negroes il was found about seventy
( OF the riotous meme were missing.
The Dead
| The dead include:
Ira D. Rainey, mounted police Of
' fcer.
Rufe Daniels, mounted police Of
| ficer.
Middle aged man named Smith.
S. Satton, barber.
Captain J. w. Mates. Battery A,
Second Illinois field artillery.
f. J. Meinke, police officer.
Earl Finley.
A. r. Carstens, painter.
Manuel Garredo.
I Fred E. Winkler.
! Bryant Watson, negro soldier
( Company K, Twenty-fourth infantry.
NJ. D. Everton, member OF a local
artillery battery.
c. W. Wright.
The Wounded
Among the wounded are:
William J. Drucks, condition crit
/ iCal.
W. H. Burkett, shot in left leg,
/ serious.
E. A. Thompson, of Hampstead. shot
sn leg.
4 ]. L. Richardson, shot in head.
/ Asa Bland, shot ever left eye.
4 Wyhe Strong negro private Com
pany l, Twenty Infantry,
shot in right side accidentally by an
other soldier of his company, not
serious.
Horace Moody, mounted police Of
/ ficer, wounded in left leg.
d. r. Patton, mounted police Of
/ ficer. six bullet wounds in hip, thigh,
leg and shoulder
Samuel Foreman, of Livingston,
Company F. Fifth Texas Infantry.
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 Reichert, white girl, shot in
/ stomach.
George Beavens, negro soldier,
wounded in leg.
] That the list of the dead and
wounded would grow as the daylight
| search progressed. seemed certain.
! Mutilate Captain
The killing of Captain Joseph w.
| Mates, of the Illinois Second Field
Artillery, was accompanied by ex-
| ports.
Wounded by rifle bullet, Captain
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