The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
MARTIAL LAW n
WASHINGTON MAY
Be RIOT OUTCOME
NATIONS CAPITAL CITY IN UP.
ROAR ALL LAST NIGHT FROM
RACE CLASHES
FIVE DEAD, MANY INJURED
Negroes Buy Hundreds OF Revolvers and
Some of Them Fire From Homes and
Street Cars-Black Girl Shoots Off.
Ger Through Heart-Cavairymen and
Marines Unable TO Cope With Situa.
tiOn.

Ger Through Heart--Cavalrymen and
Marines Unable to Cope with Situa.
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Washington, July 22-Congress was ,
asked to take notice of the race riots
and crime wave in the national capital
today and President Wilson was asked
to declare martial law and police the
city with troops. in resolutions intro.
duced in the house by Representatives
Clark, democrat, Florida and Vale. re.
publican, Colorado, respectively
Soon after noon, the nearest Official
estimate of last nights rioting stood at
five dead, 10 expected to die, scores OF
lesser wounded or injured, and the cases
of 175 rioters docketed in the police
courts.
Representative Clark's resolution was
n scathing arraignment of the local pc.
lice and the city government. 1t pro
posed that the speaker of the house APP
point a select committee to investigate
| the crime wave and the attacks on wom-
en- and report what changes may be
necessary in the police force or the city
government and determine what Off.
cias are responsible.
| At the same time Senator Harrison,
Mississippi, democrat, introduced a res-
olution to separate the whites and the
blacks on the street cars.
When some 175 cases of men arrested
during the rioting were called today in
the police courts, maximum sentences
of years Imprisonment and $500 fines
were imposed on all found carrying con-
cealed weapons, while those charged
only with disorderly conduct escaped ,
with s35 fines. In most cases jury trials
were demanded.
| Martial law may be necessary to end
race rioting here, which resulted last
night in the killing Of five persons
and the injury of at least Is others.
Several days of disorder. following
wave of attacks on white women, rob-
| berries and assaults by negroes, culmi-
mated in a series of race battles dur.
| ing the night hours with which the
| police We're unable to cope fully. de-
spite the aid of military provost guards.
Several of the injured were reported
| fatally hurt this morning, and at least
200 rioters We're under arrest.
The dead include Detective Sergeant
Harry Wilson, shot through the heart
by a negro girl, when he entered
house from which she was firing in.
discriminatory into the street.
Detective Bernard w. Thompson was
wounded seriously by a negress in the
same section of the city. Four negro
men are dead and several others are
believed to have been wounded fatally.
Three patrolmen are included in the
list of badly wounded.
Although two troops Of cavalry from
Fort Myer had been called out to pa
troll the streets and 400 marines from
Quantico and the Washington marine
barracks had been added to the provost
guard as a precauton against disor-
ders the situation at times last night
was more than the authorities could
cope with.
Reserve squads Of police and pro-
vost guards were being rushed through
the streets of the city all night in an
swer to riot calls. Army motor trucks
were stationed at the precinct head
quarters, with a squad of men armed
with automatic rifles assigned to each.
More than As riot calls We're turned |
hours of p. m and a. m, and 9TH
ers responded to almost an equal num-
ber.
Blacks Buy Many RevoIvers
While in the minor disorders Satur.
day and Sunday nights, crowds Of
white men assembled in the aggres.
slVe last nights rioting was marked by
general preparedness on the part of
the negroes, who during the day pur-
chased hundreds of revolvers. Early
In the evening they formed into crowds
III their own sections and attacked
white men wherever found. The first
casualty occurred when Patrolman J.
I. Bum, who was attempting to place
Il negro under arrest, was shot In the
shoulder. Bum is reported to be the
best shot on the local police force, and
has participated in u number of nation.
al matches.
Shorty after the patrolman was
wounded negro, riding on the back
platform or street car, opened fire
with an automatic revolver on a crowd
or white men, women and children.
wounding four of them, two seriously.
before he was himself feled by seven
bullets fired by an officer who sue.
ceeded in boarding the car close to
him. Although each bullet took effect
the negro was said to be not fatally
injured.
Later in another locality a negro
who flourished a revolver in an at.
tempt to hold up street car was
felled by marine using the butt end
of his gun and was shot fatally when
he got up and attempted to escape.
Two negroes later were fatally shot
in the northwest section of the city
after they had shot and seriously
wounded two white men.
Marines and Cavalrymen Shot
One of the most seriously wounded
in the list Of casualties was Private
Albert Luck, marine corps, who was
shot in the neck by a negro near the
treasury building. An unidentified
cavalryman was reported to have been
shot from his horse while patroling
the streets. A marine sergeant was
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