Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-25
PROMISE TO OMOvE
NEGRO SOLDIERS
QU|ETS HOUSTON
Day of Unrest Follows Night
OF Rioting in Which
II Are Killed.
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
FOR CITY AND COUNTY
Major-General Bell Will Arrive
To-Day to Take Charge
of Situation.
MOST OF BLACKS ROUNDED UP
Indignation Aroused by Savageness
Displayed Toward Slain Po-
lice Officers.
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
FOR CITY AND COUNTY
MOST OF BLACKS ROUNDED UP
Indignation Aroused by Savageness
Displayed Toward Slain Po-
lice Officers.
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HOUSTON. TEX. August 24.-An-
nouncement that General Parker had
ordered the removal Of negro soldiers
OF the Twenty-fourth Infantry from
houston to Columbus. n. NJ, served
materially to restore a spirit of quiet
tonight. after day Of unrest follow
Ing the racc-rioting last night which
resulted In the death Of seventeen per-
sons and the woundng Of many more.
!. Coming as the climax to series Of
minor troubles between city police and
negro military police guarding Camp
= Logan. Houston's mobilization site for
tho Illinois division of the National
Guard. Thursdays outbreak created a
reign OF terror for many hours. or the
l25 negroes to leave their camp Thurs
day with stolen ammunition for a raid
upon the city. all but eight were ac-
counted for early tonight The re-
naming fugitives are expected to be
rounded UP early tonight, scores Of
civilian and military patrols being in
the field hunting for them.
Major-General George Bell. Jr. will
arrive tomorrow to take over the sit
uation from General John A. Hulen. OF
the Texas National Guard. who was ap-
county were placed under martial law.
NEGRO TROOPS INFLAMED
AGAINST WHITE POLICE
The rioting Thursday night started
at o'clock. During the day the negro
troops became infiamed against the white
po.icc OF Houston because Of the re-
ported shooting OF a negro sergeant by
q q police officer. Stealing company am
munition. about l25 OF the negroes
seized rifles and left camp. starting to-
ward the city and shooting indisorini-
nately. Warning was immediately
given. and mounted police officers
sought to halt the mob, surrcnderinG
THAR lives In vain efforts to drive the
soldiers back. Illinois guardsmen en-
camped at Camp Logan soon arrived
IN the scene. but only In time to throw
Gordon between the negroes and great
4rowds OF Houston citizens who armed
themselves and quickly gathered to op-
pose the raiders. The negroes then fed
to tho open country. some returning to
camp. where they were placed under
guard. and others hiding in tho fields
and bitches along nearby roads.
Thirty-two guards OF armed citizens.
sworn in as deputy shnrffs. aided the
military forces during the day in the
search Of the San Felipe district for
stragglers from the rioting negro band.
AS fast as a negro soldier was found
he was Immediately placed in custody
Of either the civilian authorities or
under guard at Camp Logan.
AUTOMOBILE PATROLS
ALSO TRAVERSE ROADS
Automobile patrols also traversed
tho roads radiating from the city in
all directions.
While the armed forces devoted the
daylight hours to this work. command
Ing officers under General Hulen were
engaged in planning for the protection
Of the camp through the coming night
The additional force OF Approximately
500 men from Fort Sam Houston. de-
tailed from the Nineteenth Infantry
arrived during the afternoon
Earlier in the day a detachment OF
coast guard artillery from Fort
Crockett. Galveston. arrived and re-
lieved the Illinois national guardsmen
who had been on patrol duty through
out the night without rest, and these
with the frsh troops from San An
tonic. assumed full control during the
afternoon.
Sentries placed on street corners in
the business district during the morn
ing were gradually withdrawn. until
only a few streets. whore trouble might
tevelop, were under guard. Much OF
this sentry duty during the early hours
OF the day had been left to Texas ma.
tional guardsmen. who. lacking arms
were supplied with shotguns and rifles
from the stocks of hardware stores.
BUSINESS UNDER ORDERS
ISSUED by HULEN
Business In the city proceeded during
the day in accordance with orders is
sued by General Hulen. Saloons were
closed and all clubs were obliged tc
observe the military order against the
sale Of liquor
indignation over the outbreak was
particularly expressed because Of the
/. savageness displayed by the negroes
toward tn, white police officers who
were slain, and whose bodies in nearly
every instance had been hacked with
bayonets, Among the Illinois guards.
men also much feeling was evidenced
because of the mutilation of Captain
Joseph Mates. ono Of the first to be
slain by the rioters.
Because Of this feeling, Genera
Hulen at noon ordered the public
morgue. In which the bodies were held
to close their doors to all except i'm.
\ mediate relatives OF the victims.
Funeral arrangements for the vic.
:, Tins of the riot were made during the
afternoon. The four police officers wht
died fighting will be given fitting pub.
lie funeral Sunday afternoon. TIVE
youths slain--Earl Fender and Fred
erick winkleF--will be buried satur.
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