The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-22
SOLDIERS USED
TO QUELL RACE
RIOTS IN EAST
Five Dead, Ten Wounded in
Fighting Between Negroes
and Whites in Washington.
(By Associated Press)


WASHINGTON. July o. Another
night of race rioting found the national
capital today counting the largest cas-
uality list 1t has had since soldiers,
sailors, marines and civilians began
retaliating on the negro population
for the long list of daylight hold-ups
and attacks on white women which
has alarmed the city.
Although reinforced with provost
guards Of troops, and sQuadrons of
cavalry patrolling Pennsylvania ave-
nue. the police apparently we're as un-
able to cope with the situation as they
were when during the celebration dem
onstration Of March 3, 1913, when the
crowd completely overran them and
all but mobbed the suffragists parad-
ing on Pennsylvania avenue.
Shoot Into Crowd.
The score of casualties in last
nights fighting was largely in favor of
the negroes. who, when the extra
strong Gordon Of police and troops
quieted Pennsylvania avenue and the
downtown section transferred their ac-
tivities to the lesser guarded districts.
From trolley cars and swiftly NOV
ing automobiles negro desperadoes in
parties, singly and in pairs rained re-
volver shots into groups Of whites
whenever they found them, and all
night there was scattered firing from
houses in which negroes, terror strick-
en-, but not quelled, had barricaded
themselves.
Proclamation of martial law may be
necessary to end the rioting
While in the minor disorders of Sat
urday and Monday night crowds of
white men assumed the aggressive,
last nights rioting was marked by a
general preparedness on the part of
the negroes who during the day pur-
chased hundreds of revolvers. Early
in the evening negroes formed into
crowds in their own sections and at
tackled white men wherever found.
The first casualty occurred when pa
trolman J. c. Bum, who was attempt
ing to place a negro under arrest, was
shot in the shoulder. Bum is reputed
to be the best shot on the local po-
lice force and has participated in a
number of national matches.
Marine Is Wounded.
Shortly after the patrolman was
wounded. a negro. riding on the back
platform of a street car, opened fire
with an automatic revolver on a crowd
of white men, women and children
wounding four of them. two seriously
before he was himself felled by seven
bullets fired by an officer who sue
ceeded in boarding the car close tt
him. Although each bullet took eff
| feet the negro was said to be not
! fatally injured.
Later in another locality, a negro
who flourished a revolver in an at
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felled by a marine using the butt end
of his gun and was fatally shot wher
he got up and attempted to escape
Two negroes were later fatally shot
in the northwest section of the city
one after he had shot and seriously
wounded two white men.
One of the most seriously wounded
in the list of casualties was private
Albert Luck, Marine corps, who wa!
shot in the neck by negro near the
Treasury building An unidentified
cavalry man was reported to have
been shot from his horse while patrol
ling the street. A marine sergean
was shot in the neck by negro. ant
Patrolman Herman Glassman wa
wounded in the leg by negroes speed
ing by in an automobile.
Late in the night the negroes dis
persed as mobs and numbers of then
took possession of high powered auto
mobiles in which they raced througl
the streets, pumping bullets from au
tomato weapons at all whites VIII
happened within range.
Asks Martial Rule.
Congress was asked to take motto
of the race riots and crime wave i
the national capitol and President
Wilson was asked to declare MARTA
law and police the city with troops, i
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