Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-02
RACE WAR DEAD LIST
REACHES ABOUT 100,
TULSA QUIET TODAY
Many of the Scores of Wounded
Are Reported to be Nor
tally Hurt.
FIRE LOSSES $500, 900
Square Mile of Negroes Homes
Burned by Frenzied White
Mob.
TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN
Worst of Fighting Thought to
be Over; People Aiding Hun
dreds of Homeless Blacks.
TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN

By Associated Press TO Every Evening
Tulsa. Okla. June 2. p. m.
Acknowledgement Barrett conn
manding the state militia force IN
Tulsa county under martial law
proclamation. has Just announced
that 25h of the $50 nuardsnen
here win be sent home this after
noon.
Tulsa. Okla. June with day
break today. this city under the con-
troll of strict martial Law began q
systematic stotk-taking Of the death
and ruin which a few hours Of race
rioting spread IN It's path Tuesday
night and yesterday morning.
The military forces. headed By Ad-
iutant-General Barrett, started to
cheek UP the list of dead which un-
official estimate placed at somewhere
near 100. most Of them Negroes.
Scores are reported to have been
wounded Belief was expressed by all
officials that the disturbance would not
rocur.
Eight white men were killed so far
as a check of the norgues disclosed
Some Of the 35 whites injured IN hos
pitfalls are expected to die
When the military forces search
the burned Negro quarter a number
OF Negro bodies are expected TO be
found. This morning the bodies OF is
Negroes lay In the morgues.
Many Bodies burned Is Belief.
Belief was expressed by officials
that the bodies Of all the Negroes
killed would not be found, as 1t was
though that a number were burned In
their homes. Then. too. reports were
received at military headquarters that
A number Of Negro bodies had been
thrown into the river and Others
buried outside of the city Physicians,
treating Wounded Negroes al hnss1i~
tails said a score could not recover.
Military patrols and guards at
every principal street corner kept a
firm grip on the situation today. Busi-
ness was virtually suspended last
night under a general order issued By
Acknowledgement Barrett but stores
were permitted 10 open at six o'clock
this morning.
Square Mile of Homes in Ashes.
Outside the horror of killing and
wounding in the series of race bat
AtFSs AAtf S4tldAE0it oA NflOI<ttlQS 0A
Negroes presented the most
serious condition. All that was left
this morning of the hundreds of
Negro homes punched in the section
fired by white rioters was a blackened
waSte. The burned area is more than
1 mile square, and virtually no build
ngs escaped. Many were cheap frame
dwellings,. but more than a score OF
them were substantial brick business
houses. ~ Negro church recently
cost of 1900 was con-
sumed by the iames. The property
oss Will total well over s1.5o0, 600.
Five thousand Negroes We're camped
n the fair grounds under protection OF
he militia and thousands of others
xho fled from the city came trickling
3ack. Citizens were called upon to
contribute bedding and clothing for
'elief of the refugees. 4 civilian COM
nittee. and the Red Cross provided
ood and other comforts.
Since martial law was declared yes
erday there has. been no indication of |
urther conflicts and observers ex-
PRESSED the belief that the flare of race
ceiling had died out.