The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-02
$1,5OO,0OO
LOSS, RESULT
RACE RIOTS
Virtually Entire Negro Quar-
ter Destroyed-Death List
Dwindles to Nine Slain
Whites, "a Negroes.
REDUCE MILITIA FORCE

TULSA, Okla, June 2-Outwardly
today except for the presence under a
martial law proclamation of approx
mately 500 Oklahoma national guards
men sent here after many hours of
rioting between negroes and white
men including a night of incendiarism
in which virtually the entire negro
quarter was destroyed with a loss of
$500, 900
Shortly after 10 o'clock Adjutant
General Barrett announced that the
number of state troops here would be
reduced today to $50 with the lifting
Of martial law depending upon the ap-
parent ability Of city and county au-
thorities to cope with conditions.
AS the situation rapidly quieted
down today the estimates of killed and
wounded dwindled. Nine white men
had been identified today and Is ne
groes were accounted for. Bases for
estimates that still ranged as high as
40 negroes was the possibility of an
unknown number of bodies having
been destroyed when the torch was
applied to the negro residence district.
Bodies Not Found
Belief was expressed by officials
that the bodies of all the negroes
killed would not be found. as it was
thought that 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 ne
groes at hospitals said a score could
not recover.
Military patrols and guards at ev-
cry principal street corner kept a firm
grip on the situation today. Business
was virtually suspended last night
under a general order issued by Adult
ant General Barrett, but stores were
permitted to open at 6 o'clock this
morning.
s1,5oo,ooo Loss.
The property loss, according to real
estate men will total well over
$780, 900.
Oficials realizing that some hasty
measures must be taken for the relief
of the thousands of homeless negroes,
set at work today TO devise a scheme
for providing them with shelter.
Five thousand negroes were campcd
in the fair grounds, under protection
Of the militia and thousands Of others
who fed out of the city come trickling
back.
Citizens were called upon to con-
tribute bedding and clothing for relief
of the refugees. A civilian committee
and the Red Cross provided food and
other comforts.
Suggest Tents.
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
Of further conflict. and observers ex
pressed the belief that the flare of race
feeling had died out. There were un
substantiated rumors at various times
of sporadic trouble but investigation
proved them untrue
The matter of collecting insurance
on the properties in the negro quar-
ter, destroyed by fire in the fighting
between negroes and white Tuesday
today was in dispute. the insurance
men holding that their policies on the
approximately $1.500,000 worth oi
buildings destroyed did not recognize
mob violence as a destructive agent
1t was regarded possible that some Of
the negroes might seek to recover
from the city of Tulsa, seeking to es
tablish that the city was negligent in
not having provided sufficient protec
tion and therefore was responsible.