Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-01
Casualty List SweIIs in Race
War When Negroes Resist
Attempts Of Soldiers to
Search Them for Arms.
OFFICER-GUARDSMAN
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
Rifles Stored at University
Arsenal Removed Following
Rumor That Blacks Con-
tempIated Their Seizure.

Knoxville. Tenn, Aug. Shy
The Associated Press. .)-Minor dis
orders occurred in Knoxville tonight
following the race riots Saturday
night and early Sunday which were
the sequel to the storming> of the
county Jail by mob intent upon
lynching Maurice Mayes, a negro ac-
cused of the murder of Mrs. BERTHE
Lindsey, a white woman.
The casualty list was Increased
today by four negroes who resisted
attempts to search them for arms.
All were wounded by national
guardsmen, two being shot and the
other two stabbed with bayonets.
Eleven hundred guardsmen of the
Fourth Tennessee infantry, supple
mented by 200 special policemen and
Is special deputy sheriffs, patrolled
the city, dispensing crowds and
searching all negroes.
The guardsmen, who were in camp
near the city for annual target prac-
tice, also searched all negroes ar
irving on trains and have estab-
lished barred zone in the heart of
the negro district, where the worst
of the rioting early today occurred.
Four machine guns are mounted at
a commanding point in, this district
and other machine guns have been
mounted on motor trucks ready for
eventualities. + .s>
Call Of Labor Day Parade.
Union leaders today called off the
Labor day parade Scheduled for
Monday.
There has been shooting in vari-
Gus sections of the city all day and
this continued tonight, causing doz-
ems of riot calls.
Some sections in which the most.
serious clashes occurred have not
been searched thoroughly and re-
ports conflict as to the number OF
casualties which may be concealed
there. Two men are known to have
been killed, IA others, eight whites
and six negroes, are in hospitals. OF
these, four, two whites and two
negroes, are not expected to recover.
Sixteen wounded white men had their
slight wounds dressed at one hos
pital.
FIRST LIEUT.. JAMES w
PAYNE, Madisonville, KY, regu-
Ian army.
JOE ETTER, negro.
The injured include Pvt. E. V.
Henderson of the Tennessee Ma
.tional guard, who may die.
Accidentally Killed.
Lieutenant Payne was killed ac-
cidentally early today by machine
gun bullets. He was 200 yards
from the machine gunners with sew
eral other officers when the party
was fired upon by negroes from
a second-story window. Payne and
his companions replied with their
automatic rifles and sought cover.
Just as Lieutenant Payne stepped
behind telephone pole for protec-
ton, the crew of a machine gun
farther up the street opened fire upon
a crowd of advancing blacks. Lieu
tenant Payne fell into the arms of
Capt. A. c. Parker of Memphis, with
a dozen wounds in his legs and
body. He died in an ambulance.
At least three negroes were more
or less seriously injured by n1em-
bers of Company D. Fourth Ten
nessee, between daylight and noon,
according to statements of SOL
diers.
Hotels and restaurants in the~city
operated at a handicap today as
few negro employees made their ap-
pearance for work.
Several hundred rifles stored at
the University of Tennessee arsenal
were removed tonight by military
authorities after rumors that 4
crowd of negroes was forming in
the outskirts expecting to arm
themselves with this supply.