The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-06-02

was sent 10 GON. flODcrtSOn TOT tfooPS,
and the Governor ordered Adjutant-
General Charles +. Barrett to take
" hatever measures were necessary for
the protection of life and property.
the Adjutant-Generalo ordered the three
Tulsa companies of the Oklahoma state
Guard to mobilize. and also sent out
calls to three nearby towns to have
their troops ready for entraining.
Guardsmen Held Back Mob.
1t was only a little after daybreak
that the first detachment of troops bes
gan to arrive and take up their posts
In front of the court house, where
crowds were still gathered under the
impression that the negro Rowland was
inside the county jail. The guardsmen
were not numerous enough 10 drive the
crowd away. but they did prevent the
mob from breaking through and enter
ing the court house. Other details or
troops were sent to the districts where
most of the sporting and hardware
stores were located with instructions
to guard these and confiscate all stocks
of firearms.
The break of dawn showed the dam
age which had been done In the night
by the opposing forces of blacks and
whites. Dead men lay In the negro
districts, houses throughout the sec
ton were on fire and all over TIC
city there hung clouds of black SMOKE
that rolled upward and over the town
from the flames in Little Africa.
During the fighting just before day
light five hundred white men and a
thousand negroes had faced across the
Frisco tracks, and when daylight came
the bodies of between six and ten
ha
the strip of mo Mans Land" Near
them were the bodies of three railway
switchmen and that of brakeman
who had been shot and killed because
they had refused to allow white men
and negroes to ride upon switch en-
CINE which passed back and forth across
mo Mans Land"
Airplanes Went sightseeinS.
Daylight showed also that between
sixty and seventy motor cars filled with
white men armed with rifles formed an
almost complete circle about the negro
district. Overhead was the whir of air.
planes, and the reports spread that the
authorities were using machine guns
and bombing planes to restore order.
1t was learned later, however, that the
machines were Sightseeing planes. But
many a former soldier to crouch ner-
vously behind the telephone post or the
railroad embanhment that he was using
as a cover. During this time there was
not much shooting. though there was a
great deal of shouting. Most of the fir
ing seemed to come from a point
where a squad Of white rifemen were
shooting at negroes as they emerged
from their burning houses. 1t was esti-
mated at daylight that there were at
least a thousand negroes under arms in
the black belt This was the figure
given by occupants of the last car to re-
turn from the district.
The first troops from out of the city
arrived here at o'clock. when detach-
ments came from Oklahoma City and
went on duty at once. The presence OF
the troops and the knowledge that the
Acknowledgement had ordered other
companies to proceed here eased the
situation, and shortly after they came
the city authorities said that they felt
the worst was over. At 10 o'clock this
morning whatever trouble was reported
seemed to be isolated and sporadic, and
there We're no indications Of a renewal
oil the general fighting which had made
the night such time Of terror.
During the morning reports that the
negroes of Muskogee had armed and
were marching to Tulsa to help the
members of their race in the fight with
the white men here caused considerable
excitement, and 1t was feared that II
would result in q renewal of the fight
ing. Motor cars filled with armed mer
were sent to guard the roads leading
into Tulsa, but later 1t was learned thai
the reports had no foundation. The
guards at the roads were brought bach
into fha city later In the afternoon.