Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-02
TWO WHITES, SEVEN NEGROES ARE
 SLAIN INRACE RIOT NEAR HELENA:
 800 TROOPS, 7 ROM PIKE, ON WAY

LAhLD ID UT Y H. C1k- Negroes Are Said to Have Fired or Steel Gondola Loaded With Women and Children Flee ing from Town.
 Little Rock, Oct. 1.-The special pulled out for Helena at
 1920 with 500 troops aboard. Little Rock, Ark, Oct. l.-- Although Secretary of War
 Baker, and General March, chief of staff, of the United States army, were said to have author
 ized the sending of troops to
 Elaine, Phillips county, scene of tOday's race riot, the soldiers
 had not left Camp Pike at II
 o'clock tonight. It was report ed that Major General Samuel D. Sturgis, commander of Camp Pike, refused to send the troops
 without orders from the war department. MJ.
 Governor Trough said that Secretary Baker told 4him over the long distance telephone this
 afternoon that Major SGeneral5 :
 Sturgis had authority, to send,
 the troops if he considered this 1,
 action advisable. The gOvernof2 :,
 said that he received telegraIG@
 from Senator's Robinson an6 Kirby, of Arkansas quotin&
 General March to the same effecE
 Helena, Ark, Oct. 1.-Two white men, Clinton Lee and J. A. Tappan, , of Helena, and seven negroes are known to be dead as a result of clashes at Elaine, near here today between posse searching for the fired upon and killed w. D. Adkins, railroad special agent, and negroes, according to reports reaching here tonight. A third white man, Ira Proctor, and number of negroes are known to have been wounded. Five hundred troops from Camp Pike, at Little Rock. have been asked for.
 The situation at Elaine is critical and growing worse, according to a telephone message received tonight by County Judge s. D. Moore here from Joseph c. Meyers, who is head- ing the posse. Meyers was quoted as saying he expected another clash at any moment and requested that a special train with endorsements be sent immediately.
 Tappan, who was a prominent business man here, succumbed in a local hospital late today to the wounds he received in this mornings fighting in the streets of Elaine. Proctor, who also was brought here, is not expected to live, acording to physicians. The body of Lee, who died, from his wounds at Elaine, also was brought to his home here.
 ! Lee is said to have been shot ac- cidentaly while Tappan and Proc tor were wounded during the fight ing. Charles Prattv, deputy sheriff, who was with Adkins when the lat ter was killed last night, was wound ed in the knee. Lee, Tappan and Proctor are members of the local post of the American Legion anr were deputized by Sheriff Kitchens with number of other civilians when he received word the situation at Elaine was getting out of con- trol.
 Train Reported Fired on.
 More than hundred negroes and white man who is alleged to have had in his possession quantity of questionable literature had been arr rested by posses onerating in Elaine and vicinity when he left, according fn ch A To IL arrived here late today. A number of the prisoners have been brought to Helena and others, according to Jarman, are on the way under heavy pnard. The white man is not among those already here. it is said.
 Women and children of Elaine and vicinity are being brought to Helena on a special train for safety, it is re- ported here.
 The local situation is tense, but no trouble has broken out here. Armed men are patrolling the streets.
 An engineer of the Missouri Pa cific railroad. who arrived in Hele- ma tonight. said he pulled steel pcndcla loaded with women and out of Elaine late today and tA,tC HIS SioII WdS tlICu tOOII UV IlC~ groes from trees along the track.
 The white prisoner was brought to this city late tonight with a group of fifteen negroes who were placed in the county iail. The white man is a'leged to have been the leader of the negroes who fought the sheriff's posses throughout the day. The jail IS under strong guard.
 Alleged Negro Plot.
 The trouble began with the discov- cry last night of an alleged negro plot to rise against the white residents of the southern part of Phillips coun- ty, when Deputy Pratt with Adkins and negro trusty were ambushed opposite negro church at Hoou Spur. two miles north of Elaine, while on their way to arrest members of tho Glenn family, who were said to be in- : J