The Washington herald., 1917-08-24
NEGRO TROOPS MUTINY
KILLING AND WOUNDING
GUARDSMEN IN BATTLE
White q 0pardsmen Surround
COloAd Regulars at
Texas Camp.
MEMBERS OF z4TH INFANTRY
WITH PERSHING IN MEXICO
Houston. Texas, Thrown in Panic
by Reports of MObs Moving on
Business District.


Business District.
(By the International News seryfes1
Houston. Tex. Aug. 23.-Racs
feeling that led to frequent clashes
between the police and men of the
Iwenty-fourth United States In
fantry who went with Pershing in
Mexico, flared up in a not tonight.
One man Is known to be dead
and nine injured. including two
white girls. All live in or near
Houston.
How many others are lying dead
or wounded about the negro camp
is unknown.
Dead and wounded.
Known dead:
Patrolrnan Rufus Edwards, shot in
back died in Baptist SsnitariurnL
Known injured:
At st. Joseph's Infrmary-C. w.
White. engineer. Houston, shot ana
seriously wounded.
w. A. Thompson. shot. condition se-
rious.
Wiley Strong. negro, Twenty-tourth
Infantry, wounded.
Al Noteworthy Sanitariun-Cfty De-
tective Bindford. shot in the knee
AT Baptist Sanitarium-Sam salem
sky.
stomach. '
Unidentified white girl, in operating
room, condition critical
". J. Chapener. street car motor
man, shot through stomach,
Undermined white man. wounded IN
thigh and arm.
Surround Camp.
At II O'Clock tonight Mai I. &
snow commanding the Twenty-fourtb-
notlhed Brig. Gen. J. A. HuIen. Of tn.
LeNss National Guard, that several
hunored negro troopers were surround-
60 IN the camp and apparently q,
coI,Tol, but 10 others escsped "a.
ehcirehng soldiers and civilians ara
neo INT" the Ssn Felipe district q
negro quarter.
Houston is aroused 10 fever plteh
.-.o oNos are standing on many down
Nh Ig corners. In front Of the Rice
-Ioi more than loo men gathered
49, Nholy excited man brought a
the riot. SSne OF
Crowds Cheer.
Two hundred National Gus-5.-,.-
nave arrived from Galveston In y,ofo-
= achs. In long line, each tr,,rt,
orlstnnS with loaded rifles and sIss,.N
ing oayonets. sped through the dos
own section through wildly cbee-inz
me trouble started this afternoo,
,.I ,len fohceman Rufus Daniels 49,
.tsl iIlpleo TO arrest a negro woman nes,
.le camp or the Twenty-fourtb ~
@ as Hreo upon. Later white r-Dsp ~
M. NJ near the camp were also fre5
Other persons, some say as high as
twenty, are known to have been
wounded, but their names are not yet
available. 1t is persistently reported.
but Unverifed, that several have been
killed.
Rush To Scene.
Rifles and revolvers are being
used. Dozens Of automobiles load
cd with white men armed with shot
guns, rifles and revolvers are rush
ing toward the camp at fifty miles
an hour.
The Chicago and other Illinois SOL
diers stationed at Camp Logan were
in their camps when the reports Of
rifles reached them. Capt L A
Tuggle, commander of the camp. in
vestigated and rushed back with or
ders to get out every man under arms-
There was scarcely any ammunition
in the camp. but the soldiers innSe-
diately answered the call and many
of them are now in a wide circle
around the negro camp.
Houston in Panic.
Several hundred soldiers were down
town when the report reached them.
They gathered in excited groups and
one after another, without arms. hur-
ried in automobiles or ran toward the
scene OF the mutiny.
Houston's downtown district was
thrown into a panic. II is reported
that a body of negroes is moving
toward the business district. Soldiers
guarding the danger zone have this
report. but il cannot be confirmed &C
this minute because OF the heavy
guard.
Autos Rush To Scene.
Automobiles carrying guard officers
from fashionable hotels and private
dinner parties are speeding out to-
ward the camp with sirens screaming.
More groups Of armed citizens are
being gathered momentariIy.
II is reported that a Texas Guards
man has been killed by negro soldiers
whom he was attempting to errest
Reports state that the dead number
from four TO ten persons, but these
reports are without verification. The
known dead at present is only ons
man.