Arizona republican., 1921-06-02
POLICE ESTIMATE NEGRO
 DEATH LIST WILL REACH .175: PROPERTY LOSS IS
 PLACED AT $1,500, 900
Thousand. Of Nesroe. Homeless When Mob Of Whites Fires Entire Colored District; Arrest Of Negro Fol lowing Attack On Orphan Girl Supposed To Have Originated Tulsa Riotng
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TULSA. Okla. June l. - Possibly 100 persons dead. hundreds wounded and property damage estimated at s1 100000 were outstanding results tonight of race disorders which broke out here last night following the arrest of a negro accused of at tacking a white girl and which con- tinued sporadicaily today
 This evening Tulsa was quiet with the city under martial law and its streets patrolled by troops of the Oklahoma national guard sent here at the direction of Governor J. R A Robertson Officials were hopeful passed and that the coming of dawn would find normal conditions re stored.
 However. they did not relax their vigilance and it was stated all was prepared for any situation Civil of- ficers were cooperating with Ad- jutant General C. F. Barrett who came this morning with additional troops
 No accurate check of the dead had beer made late tonight and official estimates run from the known list of ten whites and 70 negroes dead 10 an opinion of Police Inspector Charles Daley second in command of the po- lice force. that the IisO would reach i75-
 The exact total. officers said. would probably never be known. as a number of negroes perished in the flames. which consumed the entire negro district. which formerly housed about 13.eo0 negroes
 The razed area begins near a sta ton of the St. Louis and San Fran cisco railroad at Boston avenue. scene of the heaviest of the fighting | today. continuing east along the railroad the district extends to Pearl avenue. north along Pearl to a point half a mile outside the city limits. west to Cincinnati avenue. south on Cincinnati to Lowell. a short distance west on Lowell to Boston. and then south on Boston The area covers a space in the shape of an L.
 Theusands Flee City
 A few feeble flames lighted sections of the burned waste tonight, while a few walls rise against a background of smouldering debris
 Thousands of the negroes and their families however. fled the city and il is reported some have taken refuge in Bartlesville. Okla
 II We have the situation well under control" Adjutant General Barrett said tonight We don't anticipate further rioting. although nothing has been ONeIlOOktQ as a pItlautltA ! against its recurrence. With Tulsa under martial law we expect 10 see a I rapid readjustment of conditions
 About 5000 negroes were herded tonight in the fair grounds, east of the city. under protection of national guardsmen- They were gathered there from all points in the city where they sought refuge Hundreds of homeless negroes who fled to the country were drifting : back tonight. They came afoot and
 in wagons carrying what few house
 hold possessions they could escape with. Crowds of several hundred. re- ? sembling refugees in the war gone in ] France. could be seen trudging back
 toward Tulsa
 The negroes at the fair grounds l were being cared for and fed under 5 the direction of a committee com posed of prominent citizens The
 body also was charged with invcsti-
 gatiug the riots and fixing responsi-
 bility. At a meeting today several , members voiced citicism of the ac- ] tion of white men who wilfully de- . stroyeo property owned by negroes
 and rendered thousands homeless Scene of Wild Disorder , From shortly before 10 o'clock last
 night when the first firing began
 near the court house, until late this