Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-25

from the city in all directions, in
quest of fugitives, in several instances
with successful results. While the
armed forces devoted the daylight
hours to this work, commanding Of
ficers under General Hulen were en-
gagged in planning for the protection
or the camp thru the coming night.
The additional force OF Approximately
six hundred men from Fort Sam
Houston detailed from the Nine
teenth infantry, arrived during the
afternoon and was Immediately dis
posed to best advantage.
ArtilIcrymcn Relieve Guard.
Earlier in the day "a detachment Of
coast guard artillery from Fort
Crockett, Galveston, arrived and re-
lieVed the Illinois national guards
men who had been on patrol duty
thruout the night without rest and
these, with the fresh troops from san
Antonio, assumed full control during
the afternoon.
Scntres placed on street corners in
the business district during the morn
ing We're gradually withdrawn until
only few streets, where racial trouble
might develop. were under guard.
Much Of this sentry duty during the
early hours of the day had been left
TO Texas national guardsmcn who,
lacking arms, were supplied with shot
guns and rifles from the stocks Of
hardware stores
Business in the city proceeded dur
ing the day in accordance with orders
issued by General$IIulcn for all save
authorized officers to go unarmed and
TO avoid gathering in groups in the
streets to discuss the riot. Saloons
were closed and all clubs obliged to
observe the military order against the
sale of liquor.
AT Camp Logan building activities
were 1T a standStill. Workmen being
refused admission thru the guard
lines established around the camp In
the residence district Immediately ad-
iacent TO the camp site many homes
were deserted during the afternoon.
Negroes Savage In Mutilatine.
Indignation over the outbreak was
particularly expressed because OF the
savageness displayed by the negroes
toward the white police officers VINO
We're slain and whose bodies in near
ly every instance had been hacKeu
with bayonets. Among the Illinois
guardsmen also much feeling was
evident because of the mutilation Of
Capt. Joseph Mates, one OF the first
to be slain by the rioters.
because of this feeling. Genera
at HOOU lii' pu'H'
morgues in which the bodies were
held, to close their doors to all eX-
cept immediate relatives of the vie
Tins
Funeral arrangements for the vIc-
tins OF the riot were made during the
afternoon. The four police officers
who died fighting, will be giving a fit
ting public funeral Sunday afternoon.
Two youths slain-Earl Fender anu
Frederick Winkler-will be burieu
Saturday. and arrangements for the
interment of the IA other dead are yet
to be announced.
Chief of Police Brock during the
day issued a statement concerning the
cause of the riot. in which he asserted
that both he and Lieutenant Sheker-
gian of the Twenty-fourth Infantry
had conferred for two hours Thursday
afternoon regarding the possibility Of
nn outbreak and preventative meas
ures TO be taken. Neither however, be-
lieved the trouble would reach crisis
so quickly, the chief asserting fear
only that a dispute between one Of his
officers and a negro sergeant might
prove the spark to start a conflagra-
ton