The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-06-02
Negroes Start Shooting at
Jail When They Attempt
to Take Accused Man
Away From Officers.
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
Fierce Attacks Made on Little
Africa When Report Spreads
White Women Are Being
Dragged Into Dens.

TULSA, Okla, June 1.-The hospi-
tails Of Tulsa are filled with wounded
and dying men tonight, and the
morgues are crowded with dead after
twenty-four hours of rioting between
white men and negroes which began
when several hundred armed blacks
poured out Of Little Africa in an
attempt to rescue Dick Rowland,
negro, who was locked up yesterday
charged with attacking q seventeen
year-old white girl.
Clouds of smoke are still rolling
upward from the negro section,
where ten blocks Of homes and
stores. fired by the mob, are In ruins.
but beneath the smoke the city Is
patrolled by troops of the Oklahoma
National Guard. while machine gun
companies have mounted their guns
at points where the muzzles sweep
wide stretches of the territory over
which the lighting occurred.
All Of Tulsa county was placed
under martial law at IL o'clock this
morning by Gov. J. B. A. Robertson,
and the military will rule until there
is no longer any danger of renewal
of the rioting.
It is not yet possible to state def
nitely the number of dead and
wounded II Is known. however, that
az least eighty-five white men and
| negroes have been killed, and IL Is
| believed that when the city is en-
tirely quiet and the police have been
able to search all the points where
shooting occurred this number will
be largely increased
May he 200 wounded.
Some estimates have placed the
number OF dead as high as IT'S. but
so far there does not seem to be am
basis for such large figures. Eighty
five is the number given out late to-
night at Police Headquarters as
conservative estimate The number
of wounded is greatly in excess o,
that number and may reach as high
as 200, among them at least one white
woman, who was shot by a negro
as she stood on her front porch.
At least 100 wounded. many of
them seriously hurt and some OF
whom will die. are being cared for
in the city hospitals. The majority
o: these are negroes. as the major
ity OF the dead are negroes. The po-
lice estimates give the dead white
men at twenty-five and the dead ne
groes at sixty
A check OF the morgues tonight
showed eight known white dead.
They were:
Walter Daggs, local manager OF
the Pierce Oil Corporation. formerly
OF Leroy. n. Y.
Arthur James. Wynons. Okla.
Cleo Shumate. "a. Tulsa.
Carl d. Lotspoich. rs. Tulsa.
Man identified as r. NJ. Barker.
Haviland. Kan. who carried an iden-
LITIGATION card with the name OF Nor
man Gillard, Tulsa.
Homer S. Clyne, 16, Tulsa
s. U. withrow. 10. Tulsa.
Unidentified man. about 40.
No effort has been made to est.
mate the property damage caused BY
the mobs OF blacks and whites who
swept through the streets OF the city
all night and during the most Of this
morning. The ten blocks Of the
negro section which are In ruins
we're crowded with wooden shacks
and two story buildings. These ara
gone. and several larger and more
substantial buildings on the out
skirts of the negro district also were
destroyed.
During the height OF the ightius
and in the early parts Of IL, when the
whites we're not armed. great damage
was done TO stores In the districr
surrounding the Court House, into
which the white men smashed their
way TO obtain weapons. These stsrss
have broken windows. smashed and
wrecked counters and looted stocka
Troops Guard District.
Tonight the stores are being
guarded by attachments OF soldiers,
with other detachments guarding
what is left OF the negro district.
which until last night housed almost
all OF the $4,000 blacks in Tulsa.
The city is comparatively quiet
now. although now and then there