The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-02
TULSA is QUIET
after "a HOURS
OF RACE RIOTS
Work Is Started Checking Up
on Casualty List.
Ten Known Whites Dead
Ninety Negroes Killed.
SEARCH FIRE RUINED AREA
Believed Many Blacks PeriShed
in the Flames.
Injured and Wounded VIII
Total Over 800.
SEARCH FIRE RUINED AREA
Believed Many Blacks Perished
in the Flames.
Injured and Wounded viii
Total Over 800.

were arrested by national guardsmen
in the negro quarter today and sent
to the city Jail for investigation. It
was said all men had in their posses
sion property which apparently had
been taken from houses which the
flames did not reach but from which
the negro occupants fled in fear.
Many such houses were entered by
guardsmen and trunks and cabinets
found broken open.
Tulsa. Okla, June Race hatred,
which flared up for twenty-four hours
in the oil metropolis of the south
west, costing nearly 100 lives and ST.
100000 property damage, was burned
out today.
Whites, who fought a furious bat
tie with practically the entire male
black population, centered their ef-
forts to finding shelter for the 10, 900
negroes whose homes were destroyed
when the torch was applied.
Altho rumors flooded the city thru
out the night of negroes congregating
in the outskirts to make a massed
drive to liberate their prisoners in
VestigatiOn by state troops proved the
reports unfounded.
NtSIOtS 10 Olly.
Negroes, who fled the city when
the rioting began Tuesday night,
drifted back into town today with pitt
full stories of how they stayed hidden
in the woods northeast of the city
nearly two days.
Practically the entire negro popu-
lation spent the night under guard.
Ien, women and children were herded
together in public buildings. Four
thousand blacks spent the night at
the fair grounds.
Thruout the night. big motor
trucks, on which dangerous looking
Guns were mounted. patrolled the
empty streets. The streets were or
dered cleared of civilians at p. m.
A campaign to raise money for re-
der way today. Several thousand dol
lars had already been subscribed.
Guardsmen on Patrol
Up and down the center of the
street, National Guardsmen walked
slowly, challenging all who passed
and granting permission to pass on
when these challenges were properly
met
Not an incident of any consequence
was called to the attention of the
guardsmen who were patrolling the
city and enforcing the martial law in
stituted by Governor ]. B. A. Robert
son thru -tdjutant General Charles F
Barrett. /
While official figures are not avail
able. it is believed the dead list will
show ten white and ninety negro
dead. The injured list is expected tC
show 100 white and 200 negro
wounded
The difficulty of determining tn,
number of dead negroes is caused b!
the fact that the bodies were appar
emily not handled in a systematic man
ner Byron Kirkpatrick aide to Ad
jutant General Barrett, said last nigh
that none of the bodies had been han
died by guardsmen, but that it wa
reported number of bodies were re
moved in motor trucks operated b.
citizens kirkpatrick said he does no
know where they were taken-wheth
er they were placed at some spe
ctfic point for later attention, if the,
we're dumped into a large hole. o
thrown into the Arkansas river.
Check Over Death List.
Fifteen bodies of blacks are in
local undertaking establishment. Re
ports heard over the city indicate tina
five to eight times that number O
negroes were killed during the riots
A careful check of the dead is to b
taken by the adjutant general Thurs
day, according to kirkpatrick. to de
termine the exact number of lives lost
1t is possible that some negroes VIII
were mortally wounded were take
from the city by those who fled t
other towns early Wednesday morn
ing.
There were thirty-five injured whit
persons still in hospitals last night. o
this number. six are believed by hos
pital attendants to be in a critica
condition.
The number Of injured negroes wi
probably reach into the hundred.
Sixtv-eiFht were treated at one hos
pital. First aid treatment was give
at National Guard armory and at viz