Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24

Houston, Tex, Aug. 24.-With the
city and enyirons quiet under rigid
martial law Houston today counted the
toll Of dead and injured as the result
10f IN outbreak Of $50 negro members
q the Twenty fourth United States
2infantly here last night,
K6listssn white men and ono negro
'ssoidis ths lsttsr believed TO have been
me sinsisadsr Ia the uprising, com-
priced the death list today, while
eighteen persons, including osae youns
white giri and three Of the riotous
negroes are wounded, some seriously.
II was said that possibly some addi-
tional negro dead would be found on
7 the prairie around Camp Logan, which
the negro soldiers were sent here to
guard while it was being prepared as
: rendezvous for national guardsmen.
Shoot Up City.
The trouble Is said to have started
Z late yesterday after some negro soldiers
had complained Of treatment accord
ed them by several Houston policemen
About o'clock last night some eighty
negroes. later reinforced to total
OF $50, formed at their camp and began
bloody march toward downtown
Houston.
Light. Il residences along the way
were shot out and number OF persons
wounded O. they aat inside their homes
while other persons along the streets
became targets for the fire of the
rampant Rsgroes.
4. MAI. Il. 8. Snow, commanding the
negro troops guarding Camp Logan,
{today declared that he attempted to
control the men when he saw what was
about to happen but @they were be-
yond control and some $50 Of them
started to shoot promiscuously In the
camp and soon scattered In every d.
rection."
Martial Law Declared.
Martial law was declared by Gov
ernor-James e. Ferguson, effective IN
Houston and vicinity at o'clock this
1 morning.
Today nearly all the negro troops
we're IN their camp under q heavy
xuard. Seventy still were unaccount-
Cd for early today. Those in bar
racks, however, were said by one Of
their higher officers 70 De in an ugly
Il Orders were given today to soldiers
IN s,aard to watch all incoming trains
ana not to permit armed men to on
tor the city
Reports hsd reached the city short
~ after midnight that armed men were
I likely to aock into Houston from some
II tho adjoining counties. u
Nsarsss Starts Trouble.
4 negro sergeant, Vida Henry, be-
lieved 20 have led the uprising, today
was found dead, bis body riddled with
buckShot about quarter Of q mile
Z s6istantfrom the camp limits.
According to police repoTt tse
I, trouble arose when q negress was ar
rested insa principal section. A negro
soldier asked that the prisoner be
turned over to him. A refusal led to
4 N arxumont and the soldier was sub
dued ana taken to headquarters.
Al little later another negro soldier
ssnproached the policeman and asked
concernin4 the first man.
when told that the negro was at
HEADQUARTERS more words followed and
\ this negro was sent to Headquarters
after the policeman had dubbed him
with q pistol.
From every source Thursday night
t,srne reports that this treatment Of the
seadier led to the riot
Nepross Arm Themselves.
evidences Of the brewing riot be-
! came apparent as early as Z: 80 o'clock
ssIast nieht. Major Snow said he no-
tjcsd the troops wsrs wrought UP over