New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
Detachment of l5O From Fort Logan S,Ne Into City, Deliberately Staying All Bel Them---White Officer Mutilated---Attel Made to Assassinate Major Snow
ANNOUNCES PATH NFANTRY
 WILL BE WITHDRAW FROM THE ST

[ officer; Early Finely; A. R. Ger painter; Manuel Garredo, Ell Winkler. Bryant Watson, negTNN diers company K 24th. tnfantz D. Everton, member of a local cry battery; c. w. Wright. The wounded: William T. l condition critical; w. H. Burkct4 in left leg, serious; B. A ThoM Hempstead, shot in leg; J. E. RtG son, shot in head;. Aza Bland over left eye; Wylie Strone, private. Company I, 24th. Ina shot in right side, accidentally other soldier of his compAnXs serious;; Horace Moody. m police officer, six bullet woundAst thight, leg and shoulder; Foreman of Lioingston, Compa Fifth Texas infantry, shot in James Edwin Lyon, shot in le91 arm; unidentified negro soldtoEs through abdomen; unidenti1Nd soldier, shot in leg; G. w. FL shot in chest; w. A. Thompso through right hip, seriou9;; Detective T. A. Binford, shot IF Anna Reichert, white girl, a6d stomach; George Beavens. neQ1 dier wounded in leg. That tho the dead and wounded would III the daylight search 'progrsssod certain. The dead police officers were the first to reach the riottng n1 Rufe Daniels helped to make rests yesterday that led dirsctlyE4 riot and officers Daniels and were killed and Moody, WiTs6& Patton were wounded a contid time after the outbreak starteds M Negroes Open Fire Without WI Patton and Long were mn and Moody, Carson, Carter au4 driver and one were in an a1
 bile slightly behind them, ," sAt6 Sergeant Wilson. At the cof3
 San Felipe and Wilson str36 l suddenly met the riotefs tlie4SS. f have been .set least 50 sQf thssrKss open1 but M A{ur al6 ton Was sQ& hro sh stifA ArT2I Longs horse #hs killed. The 6 threw themselves to the ground opened fire. Then the negroes d8 around the corner and when Daniels went around the corner opened fire on him.
 He killed one negro but they4 him several times as he lay nda ground. He took to cover 1 turned the fire. Moodyss laifSs Ss broken. Patton was shot thrat lIl leg and got q slight wound M leg" @3l ,5 sSsE
 Company c. Eight Illinois inf was not involved in this troubIi any way. They were kept In camp by their officers and not oli them was seen on the camp straG1
 Congressman J. Eagle of T listened to all the reports which q in and today sent this telegram:
 Houston, Tex, midnight, Thur,
 day. Aug, 23.-"Secretary of WI
 Washington, D. C.. As Congroal
 man from this district I ,repd,
 death and wound1ng of sevGsl
 persons, result of sending neGl1
 soldiers here. Without stslt1
 who Is to blame, 1t Is cleeE4y
 race riot and is 2 tragedy su11d
 ent to compel tho statement tl
 1t is tragic blunder to ae
 negro troops to southern oanaG
 I protest vigorously aSaansE t
 Illinois negro sodieSs o1despd
 Houston being sent. By Ill mea
 order them to northern traaHt11
 camps and promptly order n
 Vyh A
 here sent elsewhere"
 (signed)
 "JOE H. mAGLM1
 Martial Daw Deolared.
 Houston and environs azo tod 1ndsr martial law with Bpten General John A. Hullen in comnaa rhis action was taken by Gova Ferguson upon request Of " Mayor Moody, about 13:8o thas IT. ng and 1t later was followod hys order by Major General James Hst General Hullen n thas0( n command. General Hulen IF rave orders for the disporuin9 x :rowu who still thronged the st{ hat hour, for the, prompt arS uch of the negro soldiers as W08 n camp under guard, and for dosing of all saloons and driu1&I places until such time as he may ect.
 G. w. Hahl was shot at rcpeatet IS he lay prone with a wounded l iceman at his side. The officer W hot second time, but MT. Hahl " anly burned" by bullet across 'ack s T saw one policeman drop and mounted officers horse fall" sa Iohl. Being unarmed I got behil he car and then dodged to t hadow of a building on the corna 'here was a policeman already thei hot in his gun arm and disabled. "The negroes deliberately shot doy very white man in sight Then tn anne up the street toward us. I'll Tere walking and shooting coollv ., -ith deliberation, ha1ting to take Al, we f1attened ourselves on round next to the building in x
 (Continued on Fifth PaEN.