Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-31
NEGROES ORDERED
FROM TEXAS AFTER
RIOT IN HOUSTON
Blacks Face Death Penalty for
Killing Seventeen Persons.
CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW
Majority of Blacks Who Murdered
Whites Have Been Captured
Troops Patrol Streets and
Quiet Is Restored.


San Antonio, Tex, Aug. 25.-Gen.
James Parker, commander of the
southern department, issued orders for
the return to their station at Colum-
bus, n. NJ, on the border, of the bat
States infantry at Houston and the
battalion at Waco. The movement is
to start as soon as transportation can
be furnished and the necessary ar
rangements made.
Houston an Armed Camp.
Houston has been transformed as a
result of a raid by a mob of negro
soldiers bent on slaughter of whites,
into an armed camp.
A soldier or a deputy sheriff is on
every street corner.
The rioting has ceased. The situa-
ton is in hand. The county is under
martial law, with all of the saloons
closed and all citizens, with the ex-
ception of authorized officials, dis
armed.
The mob, composed of members or
the various companies of the Twenty
fourth United States infantry (negro),
started on it's hunt for blood shortly
after eight o'clock at night
II Men Killed by Rioters.
Within a few hours 15 white men,
one Mexican and one negro had been
shot to death. All were citizens, with
the exception of Capt. ]. W. Mates,
commanding officer of Battery A of
the Second Illinois Field Artillery, and
the negro. The latest reports on the
wounded fix the number at 16.
Approximately 50 of the mutinous
members of the Twenty-fourth are
still at large. More than fifty were
captured during the day. OF this num-
ber there were fifteen or sixteen
dressed in civilian clothing, but wear
ing army shoes and with army issue un-
| derwear.
Negroes Are Disarmed.
Four were taken from under a porch
| One was hauled from the inside of a
closed trunk Others were found skulk-
ing in the woods or in the bottoms of
gullies or in cornfields.
AS fast as the negroes were cap
+ured they were taken to the camp
site of the Twenty-fourth and held un-
der heavy guard. They were stripped
of all arms, even pocketknives being
taken away.
Negroes Face Death Penalty.
A general court-martial consisting
of 13 officers, will be held as soon as
the evidence in the rioting can be got
| into shape for presentation.
The army regulations provide death
for mutiny. 1t is pointed out that the
negroes, who were captured outside of
the camp with ammunition on their
persons and with rifles that had been
fired, stand but little chance of escap-
ing the blank wall at sunrise.
1t is apparent that the attack on the
town was premeditated. There was no
intoxication, and from all signs it was
a carefully thought-out plan.
Known Dead.
Following is the casualty list, so far
as can be ascertained:
Capt J. w. Mates, Battery A, Sec
ond Illinois field artillery; Ira D
Rainey, mounted police officer; Rufe
Daniels, mounted police officer; mid
dle-aged man named Smith, S. Satton
E. J. Meinke, police officer; Earl Fend
Ter, A. r. Carstens, Manuel Garredo
Fred E. Winkler, Bryant Watson, ne
gro soldier, Company K, Twenty-fourtl
infantry; NJ. D. Everton, member of {
local artillery battery; E. NJ. Jones
, II. A. Thompson, G. w. Wright.
Angered by Police.
!, The rioting started about nint
.. O'Clock. During the day the negr'
troops became angered against tn,
city policemen of Houston because o
the reported shooting of a negro ser
geant by police officer.
Stealing company ammunition, abou
! 125 of the negroes seized their rife
and left the camp, starting toward tn
city, shooting indiscriminately.
Warning Immediately was given an
mounted police officers sought to hal
: the mob, surrendering their lives il
: vain efforts to drive the soldiers bacl
y, Illinois Guardsmen, encamped a
Camp Logan, soon arrived on th
: scene, but only in time to throw col
don between the negroes and crowd
of Houston citizens, who armed then
selves and quietly gathered to oppos
; the raiders.
The negroes then took to the ope
country in flight, some returning
camp, when they were placed unde
guard and others hiding in building
and bitches in nearby roads.
Indignation over the outbreak ws
particularly expressed because of tt
:, savageness displayed by the negrot
g 9 toward the white police officers WI
were slain and whose bodies in near
every instance had been hacked wit
bayonets. Among the Illinois Guard
: men also much feeling was evident b
cause of the mutilatiOn of Capt. j.
seph Mates, one of the first to
slain by the rioters.