The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-24

Horace Moody mounted officer
wounded in left leg.
d. r. Patton. mounted police officer
received five or six wounds in hip thigh
leg and shoulder
Sammie Foreman, Of Livingston, Com
pany f, Fifth Texas infantry shot in
leg
James Edwin Lyon, shot in leg and
arm
Unidentified negro trooper shot
through abdomen.
Unidentified negro trooper shot in
leg with buckshot
c. w. Butcher, Cottage Grove, shot in
left chest and right loin; seriously
wounded.
W. \. Thompson shot through right
hip; condition serious.
Wiley Strong, negro soldier. oath in.
fantry.
City Detective T. A. Binford, shot in
knee.
Sam Salensky, badly hurt in automo-
bile accident going to camp.
Alma Richert. white girl, shot in stom-
ach.
George Beavers, negro soldier, wound
ed in leg.
Congressman Eagle Protests.
Congressman Eagle at midnight sent
this telegram to Secretary of War Bak-
er:
"As congressman from this district
a report death and wounding of several
persons. result of sending negro soldiers
here. without stating who is to blame,
1t is clearly race riot and is a tragedy
sufficient to compel the statement that
it is a tragic blunder to send negro
troops to southern camps. l protest
vigorously against the Illinois negro
soldiers ordered TO Houston being sent
here. By all means order them to
northern training camps and promtly
order the negro troops who are already
here sent elsewhere.
(Signe0 JOE II. EAGLE"
Major Blames Police.
Major l.. $. Snow, commanding the
battallon<bf negroes. made a sta stement
OF two alleged occurrences Thursday
that he claims crystallized feeling
among negro soldiers of his command
that had been increasing since the bat.
talon was sent here from Deming. N.
NJ. three weeks ago for guard duty.
Thursday morning a Houston police
officer arrested a negro woman on or
near San Felipe street and doing so. l
am informed slapped her face. A soldier
Of the Twenty-fourth. who had been
drinking. demonstrated with the patrol.
man for what he considered his un.
necessary violence in striking her. The
officer then began beating the soldier
with his pistol.
The mans face and head were bad.
ly cut by the pistol butt. He was ar.
rested by the same officer and taken
to the station where he is now held.
Thursday afternoon. according to
| reports made to me by Corporal Balti
more Of my military police force. sol.
| der Of my command was arrested by
an officer. Corporal Baltimore who
was nearby, wearing his military police
badge, asked the policeman, purely for
information he says, why the man was
/ arrested.
The policeman told him it was none
( Of his business. The policeman then,
Corporal Baltimore and the arrested sol
der both state hit Baltimore over the
head with his pistol butt. Corporal
Baltimore ran along the street. the DO.
iceman firing at him as he fled He
took refuge in a house under a bed
The policeman followed dragged him
out. used further abusive language to
him and struck him two more blows
with the pistol
when the men in camp heard OF
these occurrences, Thursday afternoon
it excited them greatly and they made
open threats Of retaliation"
Negroes Take Ammunition.
Evidences Of the riot became appar
ent as early as 1880 o'clock Thursday
night. A little later, word came to
him that the negroes had entered the
ammunition tent and armed themselves.
The commanding officer rushed to
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