Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-06-03
RACE RIOT In OKLAHOMA
More Than Eighty People Killed at
Tulsa. .
CITY is NOW UNDER MARTIAL LAW
Negro Attacked White Girl and After
He Was Arrested Other Negroes At
tempted to Rescue Him From the
Officers of the Laws


Tulsa, Okla, June 1.-Race riots to-
day resulted in the death of 80 or more
persons, including .atSleast nine white
men and the injury OF. scores, accord
ing to estimates by the police, and in
the destruction of ten blocks of homes
in the negro quarter. Despite the
placing Of the city under martial law
today. desultory firing continued dur
ing the afternoon, but the city this
evening was comparatively quiet. -Four
companies Of the national guard under
Adjutant General Barrett are on duty.
The reported death list grew all day.
At noon the chief Of police notified
Governor Robertson OF Oklahoma City
that the total was rs. In one statement
Mai. Charles w. Daley Of the police
department put the figure at IT'S, say
ing lie believed many negroes had been
burned to death in their bones. OF
the nine white men known to have
been killtd, five have been identified
as follows:
Homer Cline. II. Tulsa: Cleo Shu-
mate, "a Tulsa; Emmett Buckley, 35,
Leroy, y. Y; Carl D. Lotspiech, Ran
dali, KAN; man previously identified
as f. NJ. Baker. Haviland, Kan, be-
lieved to be Norman Gillard. Tulsa.
Late this evening, police; headquar-
ters had reports that conservative
estimates of the dead would be about
% white persons and GO negroes.
The trouble is declared to have start
cd last night from the arrest of a
negro charged with attacking white
girl and subsequent attempts OF
negroes to rescue the arrested man.
Comparative quiet prevailed in the
later hours of the night. but at day
break Il group Of negro houses were
set atire and the city firemen were
prevented from fighting the flames.
Armed white men then formed a circle
about negro sections. For several
hours during the morning parties OF
negroes and whites faced. each other
across railroad tracks; on which could
be seen number OF slain negroes.
With the arrival of Adjutant Cen
eral Barrett and a machine gun COM
plny from Oklahoma City, sem
blance Of order was restored. Several
thousand negroes were assembled I'M
der guard ut convention hall, the base
ball park and the police station. Orders
E., 6iSo rr11in nf :ill
persons not belonging to the guard or
especially deputized.
Detachments Of the national guard
were scattered about the city at stIate-
gic points, especially about negro
quarters. where 10000 or 13O00
negroes, il is estimated, reside. Nearly
half that number alt under guard.
Dick Rowland, the negro whose ar
rest led to the disturbance was rem"V-
cd from the city to an unnamed desti-
nation. Officers declared he would bc
given an early trial.
Prompt medical attention was given
the wounded.
Civic organizations and citizens VINO
volunteered their services cared 1or
the negro refugees, to whom ice water
and sandwiches were served through
out the day Special care was given
to the aged and infirm and call was
sent 10 nearby towns for available
nurses.
After the firing of the first shot last
night at Sixth and Boulder streets the
fighting spread to various parts or the
city including the business section. Al
one time 1000 armed white men were