New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-09-26
new ULM NAN HAS
AN EXCITING TINE
JOHN TEIcHRoW WRITES FROM
CAMP LOGAN, OF RACE RIOT
IN TEXAS.
NORTHERN NEGRO SOLDIERS ON
RAMPAGE. AND NUMBER OF
MEN ARE KILLED.

AAAAASSA SoeAAAS AC1GS1 W NSO1SS n. DTOlIllGy
of the Eagle Mill Office staff, from
which The Review is permitted to make
a number of extracts. It is believed
that all of Jacks" friends in New
Ulm, and there are lot of them, will be
interested in what he has to say. Mr..
Teichrow is now stationed at the Base
Hospital, attached to Camp Logan
Houston, Tex.
The letter was written couple of
weeks ago, and Mr.. Teichrow said it
was decidedly hot in Texas about that
time, the thermometer registering at
115 degrees in the shade, but he adds
that is not so noticible as IS degrees in
Minnesota.
There have been some exciting times in
and around Camp Logan since Mr..
Teichrow's arrival there, as the following
extract from his letter will testify:
Hot Time In Old Town.
We've had little touch Of excite
ment since our arrival here. It was a
race riot, and say, it was exciting,
especially for us fellows from the quiet
section of the north.
The camp is on $500 acre reserva-
ton, lying about three and half miles
west of Houston. Street cars run out on
a Well-populated street to within about
a mile of the corner Of the reservation.
There are all kinds of buildings along
Ihat STREET, from dwellings to baudy-
houses but mostly little nushrSom
ssoft-drink and lunch places, to take the
soldiers money away from him. Ou1
Base Hospital camp is in the corner Of
the reservation, nearest to town. The
trouble started right there Thurs
day night. The Twenty-fourth
Illinois Infantry is composed Of
negroes, and they We're sent down here
about three weeks ago. Being from the
North, they didn't quite grasp the idea
OF their proper place, when in this part
OF the country, and started making
themselves obnoxious, which is one
thing your Southerner will not stand
for in niger They got themselves
in bad the first thing by tearing the
Jim Crow signs out Of the street cars,
and sitting in the seats reserved for
whites. But the trouble started when
the police arrested a colored woman for
giving liquor to the negro soldiers. When
! policeman arrested her negro infantry
man went over and tried to buster him;
wanted to known what she was .pinched'
for and abused the officer. He got a
busted head for his pains and was him
self pinched. Another negro soldier
went over and tried the same thing, and
was also arrested.
Raid Quartermaster's Stores.
well, the other negroes Of the
Twenty-fourth evidently got together
and quietly planned retaliation. Thurs
day night they raided the quartermaster's
stores, got all the ammunition they could
find and started for town. The firing
began about $40, right at our corner Of
the camp, and spread all over town in
less than an hour. It lasted all night.
If you have ever heard or seen sham
battle, you can get an idea of the scrap
by multiplying your sham battle by ten.
At first thot it was sham battle,
We had gone to sleep out in a shower
bath house. on account Of rain that
night, and had just undressed when
things broke loose. There were eight
of us in there, about two blocks from
the mess house, where the others slept.
We were only a hundred yards from
where the firing was going On. For q
long time we laid there listening and
joshing, when all of a sudden we heard
yelling and screaming; then couple 81
negroes crashed thru the underbrush,
beside the bath house, trailing theii
guns and running for tall timber, literal.
". just then couple Of bullets came
thru the wall Of the house. We all had
a sudden inspiration al at cnce, and we
acted on it just about as quickly as we
#thot of it. We left the bath house
We'd no more than gotten outside wher
we met the camp guard hiking out tc
tell us we were ordered to report at
adquarters. We beat him in. II
fact one of the fellows said he heard The
same bullet-once when it passed him
and then about a block further when