The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-01
Ten BLOCKS OF
CITY is kFLAME
Casualty List Growing Hourly
Whites Have Control.
"LittIe Africa'' Set AfIame by
Enraged Mob.
ASSAULT CASE WAS CAUSE
Negro Resisted Arrest Shot and
Blacks Gathered.
Whites StOrmed Stores for Arms
and Ammunition.
NATIONAL GUARD is CALLED
Three Companies of Troops
Rushed to the Scene.
Thousands of Negroes Are Flee
ing From City.
NATIONAL GUARD is CALLED
Three Companies of Troops
Rushed to the Scene.
Thousands of Negroes Are Flee
ing From City.

Tulsa, June 1-Nine white men are
known to have been killed in the race
clash that broke out here last night
and ragged until noon today. with Chief
of Police Gustafson estimating the ne
gro dead at sixty-eight.
In addition scores of whites and ne
groes have been wounded and prac-
tically the entire negro quarter is a
mass of ruins, the result of fire. The
loss is expected to reach thousands of
dollars.
Major Charles w. Daley of the po-
lice force this afternoon estimated the
number of dead from the race clash
here at 175. He gave it as his opinion
that a number of negroes had burned
to death when their homes were swept
by fire.
The situation has quieted and no
further fighting has been reported
since 10 a. m.
Seven distinct engagements marked
the progress of the race war from its
outbreak at 10 o'clock last night un
til IL o'clock today. The first shot
was fired at 10 o'clock Tuesday night.
Martial law was declared in ef-
feet in this city and Tulsa county
about noon today by State Adju-
tant General c. f. Barrett follow
ing receipt of orders from Gov. ]. B.
A Robertson directing that the mill
tia take over the situation arising
from a race clash that broke out last
night and continued thruout the night
and early today.
All persons not deputized as special
officers are ordered t. disarm in a
proclamation issued shortly before
noon by Mayor T. D. Evans. Persons
carrying guns will be arrested under
the mayors orders.
Detachments of guardsmen were
scattered thruout the city, prepared to
meet all emergencies, with machine
guns ready for action. Guards sur
rounded the armory while others as
sisted in rounding up the negroes and
segregating them in the jail, conven-
ton hall, baseball park and other
places which had been turned into
prison camps.
At II a. m. police reports and check
of hospitals show thirty-two wounded
wounded in their own homes. Two
hundred blacks are believed by au-
thorities to have been wounded.
Hundreds Negro Homes Burned.
The entire negro section is still in
flames, hundreds of negro houses al
ready a charred mass. The flames
have eaten their way to the edge OF
the white belt, which threatens to de-
stroy hundreds of white homes on the
north side.
Fire Department Helpless.
The fire department was practically
helpless. Residents of the north side
were moving their household goods
most of them giving up hope of saving
their homes.
Three hundred and fifty national
guardmen under command of Adju.
tant General Barrett arrived at 9:OE
a. m. from Oklahoma City. A sec
ond troop train was due from the
capital at IL a. m. Companies A and
B of Tulsa have been on duty since
midnight. Two companies from Mus
kogee and one from Wagner have
been orded to entrain Immediately fol
Tulsa. it was announced by officials
At 10 a. m. a continuous stream oi
captured and surrendered negroes
men, women and children holding ur
white handkerchiefs were marched
from the black belt and automobile
load after load of them taken to Con
vention hall where approximately g..
GEO are now under guard; to Nc
Nulty baseball park where 1t is est
mated over 5000 are under guard, mer
being held on the ball field whil,
women and children are held in tht
grand stand; Sequoyah school is alst
Oe4ng filled with them.
VIII Judge Negroes Held.
A military commission composed o
seven city officials and business men
to pass upon the status of 5000 ne
groes held under guard in improviseC