The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-02
COUNTING UP
FEARFUL COST
Tulsa, Under Martial Law,
Sees $1,500,OO0 Ruins
After Race War
DEATHS IN STRUGGLE
MAY REACH 100
Thousands of Negroes,
Burned Out, Are
Helpless

martial law, Tulsa to-day began a sys
tematic stock-taking of the death anc
ruin which a few hours of race riotinl
spread in its path Tuesday night and
yesterday morning.
The military forces, headed by Ad
jutant General Barrett, started a
check up of the list of dead which un.
official estimates placed at somewhere
near 100, most of them negroes. Belief
was expressed by all officials that the
disturbance would not recur.
Eight white men were killed, so far
as check of the morgues disclosed.
Some OF the 35 whites injured are ex.
pected to die.
Military forces expected to find y
number of bodies in the burned negro
quarter This morning the bodies of 10
negroes lay in the morgue. Belief was
expressed by officials that the bodies of
all the negroes killed would not be
found, as it was thought that mum
ber 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 the city.
Military patrols and guards at every
principal street corner kept firm grip
on the situation to-day. Stores were
permitted 70 open at 6 o'clock
A sweeping investigation of the
causes leading up TO the rioting was
expected 20 get under way during To-
day
| Outside the horror of killing and
wouHdipg in the series of race battles,
the situation Of thousands Of homeless
negroes presents the most serious con-
dition and one which will give author
tiles the biggest problem for solution.
All that is left of the hundreds of ne
gro homes punched in the section fired
by white rioters is blackened waste.
a curling column of smoke here and
there and few shattered walls.
An idea of the extent of the destruc-
tion in the burned area is gained from
the statement that it is more than
mile square. Virtually no buildings es
capped. Many were cheap frame dwell |
ings, but more than score were sub |
stantial brick business houses. A ne |
gro church recently completed Mt a cost !
OF $4,000 was consumed by the flames !
The property loss according to real |
estate men, will well exceed 81 500 600 |
Five Thousand Negroes Camping Out.
Realizing that some measures must
be taken for the relief of the thou
sands of homeless negroes, officials set
at work to-day to devise a scheme for
providing them with shelter.
Five thousand negroes were camped
in the fairgrounds under protection of
the militia and thousands of Others
who fled out of the city came trickling
back.
Citizens were called upon to contrib
ute bedding and clothing for relief of
the refugees. A civilian committee
and the Red Cross provided food and
other comforts.
One suggestion was TO clear away
the debris in the old negro quarter and
erect tents there.
Since martial law was declared late
yesterday there has been no indication
Df further conflicts and observers ex-
pressed the belief that the flare Of
race feeling has died out.
Officials hope to clear up by the in
vestigation just what led to the first
shooting Tuesday night. A newspa-
DermRn who was at the court house
It the time. said about 25 white men =
gathered on the south side of the
Three Of the leaders entered
he courthouse. he said. On the top
loor, Dick Rowland, a negro, was be- I
ng held for an attack upon a white
'irl in an elevator of a downtown :,
building. Most Of the white men were :
Tot armed, according to the newspa- :
,er man.
Sheriff Mccullough met the men who {
ntered the building and warned them
way with the declaration that the ne n
no would be protected at any cost /,
The prisoner was in a cell az the top II
( a winding stairway, which coild n
ave easily been held by a few men II
gainst a mob. N
Meantime about thirty negroes. h
ONE armed, gathered in a little group a,
rest Of the court house. Barney Cleav- T
r. negro. a veteran peace officer. went "a
mong the gathering negroes and coun- N
1iiNN NhtM ~ t-lNA1f- ~ Ahts ttuit ~
here apparently was no concerted ac- al
on among the negroes. re
Most Of them started TO leave but
ere called back by a few leaders
vice again the majoIty Of the negro NJ
lob moved away. but each time they p,
'turned at the appeal Of the few who W
ere determined 10 stay. %
BY this time the white crowd had m
zen reinforced by curious persons. "a
hen some broke, running eastward n
routing. Lets get guns" vi
The negroes moved away and took 10
stand about three block away. The 81
hite, crowd remained near the court I'll
,use, however. receiving reinforce on
ents. Then aimed negroes appeared N
motor cars racing past the court IA
iuse. The white mob moved aRay sc
ON the court house and il was a sc
ush between skirmishers in an alley of
at prccipitated the general shooting 80
The two forces consolidated soon scl
terwards and the negroes were driv- ~
through the business disfrict back Ell
their quarters. They took up -
and across the 'Frsco railroad sh
lcss. about q thrusaud stronr and a ha
tile to6k place uben the utite rint e.
3 lined up behins huildinFs ~ the lik
her ss2e - ne railroad Fnailg =ei
es Wtre startes ~ ths whites ard thl
, negroes wsre disi1iged rsci