The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-01
Knoxville, Tenn, Under Martial
Law After Race Riots.
Seven Dead, Scores Injured,
, Toll of Two Days Fighting.
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION
VIII Try Mayes, Negro Accused
of Killing White Woman.
Citizens Are Sticking Close to
Home TOdayJ Cancel Parades.

Knoxville. Tenn. Sept. Twelve
hundred Tennessee national guards
were patrolling the streets here today
ready to quell any renewed attempts
at race rlotinE. which resulted in the
death OF seven and the wounding of
scores during Saturday night and Sun
day.
Troops are distributed at eighteen
points turnout the city and machine
guns have been placed in positions
where they could rake streets should
II become necessary.
The rioting followed the storlninS
OF the jail by a mob which was after
n negro charged with numbering Mrs.
Berthe Lindsay.
Were Renewed Sunday.
Hardware stores and pawn shops
were looted of fire arms Windows
were smashed. doors demolished and
the place ransacked. The Jail and
sheriff's residence were stormed by
mob about a thousand strong Saturday
night. Sporadic disorders broke out
again yesterday and continued for sew
eral hours. Two negroes and one
white man were wounded yesterday in
renewal of the rioting.
Special police and deputies under
Police Chief Haynes. supplemented by
reserves, were cooperating with the
soldiers.
Today's parade of union labor was
called OH. All candidates city OF
fices who have been campaigning dur
ing the past few weeks have cancelled
their speaking engagements for today.
Police are computing an accurate list
of dead and injured. Lieut.. James w.
Payne OF Providence, Ky. who direct
ed the machine gun fire early Sunday
morning. and Pvt. Jete Henderson
were among those killed.
Quiet prevailed thruout the city and
suburbs this morning.
4, H.. fzft TTfn
ordered off the streets everywhere in
the city 1t 10 o'clock last night.
Groups Broken Up.
Despite the fact that today is a holi-
day, expected crowds had not APP
peared on the streets during the
morning. Groups OF men were not
permitted to gather, the move on
order being enforced by police and
militia patrols. Negroes were
searched for fire arms and other
weapons.
Bishop S. J. Hargrave. colored. a
leading ministerial worker. among the
colored people Of the city, Issued an
appeal 10 the men and women of his
race, in which he urged members OF
his race TO refrain from disorder, as
sured them that the white people were
their friends and asserted that the
trouble of Saturday night and Sunday
was due to the lowest types of blacks
and white and not to the better ele-
ment of either race, who have to SUI
fer the consequences.
Maurice Mayes. the negro accused
of killing a white woman here Fri
day. for whom the crowd which
stormed the jail was searching, issued
n statement from the jail at Chat
, tanooga, where he was taken for safe
keeping before the mob appeared, In
(Which he denied implication in the
crime and asserted that Friday after
noon ~, doing "a rnnnign work for
one Of the candidates for mayor. The
election will be held Saturday. Several
mass meetings which were to have
been held this week preliminary to the
election have been Cancelled.
The county work house and jail
committee today ordered repairs to the
Jail be made Immediately. 1t was es-
timated that the damage to the prison
will reach about $4,000. Officers de-
clare that the bars in the window thru
which the mob obtained entrance were
dyuamited after a battering ram failed
TO displace the barriers.
Grand Jury Sits wednesday
Tn criminal court grand jury will
meet wednesday TO investigate thu
charge against Mayes It was stated
that the grand jury also will inves
tiEate the rioting. No effort was ma d.
by members of the mob to concea
their identity and X Is understood e
uAnDeI were ItNoBAAANSN " buaAuo Il
the Jail. A heEira Of negroes from
the city, which began yesterday, con
tinued today.
Officers assert the situation un
doubtedy Is well IN hand and that /
today passes without further unto
ward developments there is little like
lihood of n renewal OF outbreaks. Pa
trois will be maintained. however. ant
the most rigid surveillance will be en-
forced.
A stay at home night" appea 1
being made in the hope that this viii
prevent crowds gathering. The hap
penings OF the past two days ar
deprecated by all the better element
OF the city. OF both white and colore'
races.