Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-03
NEGROES KILLED BY
SCORES IN ST. LOUIS
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was wounded. Jay Long a white man.
was wounded in an earlier attack.
Police rainforcements early this
morning dispersed the mob of ne
groes and shortly after 3 "a. m. Mayor
Mollman asked Governor Lowden to
send national guardsmen here to pre-
serve order.
Two companies OF the guard-ono
from Effingham and one from Car
tondale-arrived about $3.50 and were
assigned 10 duty in the negro quarter.
Up 10 that hour the streets were
quiet and it seemed that the day
would pass without n renewal Of the
rloting The saloons, however, were
open.
Agitators Stir Up Trouble.
AS the morning wore on crowds be-
gan to consreglte In the streets and.
encouraged by the absence Of troops
from the downtown section, agitators
began their work of inflaming the
mob.
The first trouble occurred when a
negro appeared AT Broadway and
C0llinsv,lle avenue. one of the busiest
corners In the city. and an important
street car transfer point White men
struck the negro in the face and
others in the crowd knocked him
down and kicked him. AS ne lay in
the streets a white man coClly APP
proached and fired at him five times.
Two of the shots took effect one in
the arm and one in the leg. AS the
crowd. thinking the negro was dead,
fell back. he jumped up and ran. This
negro said he had had no part in pre-
Nlous race troubles.
BY this time four companies of the
Illinois national guard were patroling
the gF nnnnranfl.s with tiff1p Z
feet on the mob. Fred Thayer. a
white man, was sitting in a second
story window when he was hit by a
stray bullet.
As the mob seemed further than
ever from control orders were given
TO hurry as many negroes as possible
out OF the city Auto trucks were
packed and the exodus began.
\ little later a white man standing in
front OF the lllmo hotel fired at a
negro but missed him and wounded
a white man, Louis Haege, aged 65,
in the groin.
The man was arrested but the mob
forced his release. Later the same
man, the police say. was found haran-
guing a street crowd and this time
was locked up.
Casualty List Grows Rapidly.
White men stopped street cars.
dragged off negroes and pelted them
with stones and paving bricks by
/ o'clock eight negroes were in hos
pitfalls and the police AID guardspen
seemed completely to have lost cOn-
troll No accurate account OF the
number OF negroes attacked was OBJ
tainable, many escaping with slight
injuries.
At 1870 the rioting grew more Sc
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street car, beaten and kicked. and
then shot. He died in an ambulance,
While this disturbance was raging
another car was halted White women
and white girls boarded it and
seiZing shrieking negro women
dragged them into the street, where
they were pounded and kicked.
A few minutes later negro was
shot in the head. The crowd cheered
as policemen put him In an ambu-
lance. National guardsmen witnessed
this scene. but did nothing to disperst
the mob.
As the attacks continued. under
takers Aimed their wagons along the
curbs ready to haul away the bodie:
OF those who might be slain.
one negro man taken from the cal
by women rioters first invaded wa:
beaten on the head with heavy club
| He died in an ambulance.
White Oniookcr Killed.
Some OF the men in the mob begar
[ to shoot as the negroes We're dragged
from the cars. William Keyser.
hardware merchant, standing in from
OF his store observing the rioting, wa.
/ hit by stray bullet and died on tn,
way TO the hospital.
Late in the afternoon the mol
seemed more determined than ever I,
beat up every negro on whom hand,
could he laid. An old negro alighteC
from a street car, walked block anC
was noticed by crowd of whites
II guess the old man doesn't know
what the trouble is about over here,
said n white man. 81 will so and tel
him"
Hailing the old negro. the white mar
Went over 10 him and began conver
sation. The white crowd gathered
around the two and within a few min
utes the negro had received sever,
beating.
Laugh at Lynching.
The mob obtained ghastly amuse
ment in the lynching of one negro
Two white men tied a rope around tn,
neck Of the black and started to pul
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the two white men fell flat on ltheil
backs. The crowd laughed. The ne
/ gro dropped TO the ground dead.
AS three negroes were trying q
escape from n burning building 8
mob spied them. One negro wa
hanged to telephone pole and IN,
other two were shot The three deaC
bodies were left lying In the streets.
At $3.50 O'Clock tonight a mob o
three hundred armed men charged
into a neeTo district on Third street
Nearly every member Of the mob car,
ried flaming torch. Before they
could start a new blaze. however. tive
! hundred guardsmen charged witt
fixed bayonets. The troops fired {
volley over the head OF the mob
which then dispersed.
A battle between whites and blacks
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