The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-06-02

block away they recovered their nerve
and. led by the negro who had shot at
Mcqueen. they went more slowly. The
whites followed an the negroes went UP
Boulder street and turned into the alley
back of the court house. both sides
firing and using whatever cover was
afforded by the telephone posts and the
corners of buildings A group of men
who apparently bad served In the army
dropped flat and made their way toward
the negroes in short rushes, exactly as
they had attacked machine gun posi-
tions.
These men dislodged the negroes from
their positions in the mouth of the alley
and they fled into Boston street. They
crossed Boston street and came into
Fourth street, where they again made
stand, but were once more driven back
by the whites Several negroes were
seriously hurt during this engagement
and two or three white men received
slight wounds
After leaving Fourth street the ne
groes divided into two groups. but ap-
parently with a plan to meet again, be-
cause when the whites came UP with
group Of them at Second and Cincin-
natl streets the remainder Of the blacks
appeared suddenly from side streets aud
presented their full strength. But their
stand there was brief. and after sew
eral men had been shot, but, so far as
can be learned, none killed, the negroes
retreated across the tracks Of the Frisco
railroad and made their way back to
their own quarters.
All Tulsa Aroused.
BY ais time all Tulsa was laboring
under tremendous excitement. BY tele-
phone and by messenger the word had
gone through the white districts tina.
the negroes had broken out and were
shooting white men and white women
wherever they could be found. The TRUTH
bad enough, was stretched and distorted
ir to stories that white women were
being taken from their homes and car
ried captives into the shacks and dens
of Little Africa. The fighting around
the Court House and down to the Frisco
tracks occupied more than an hour ard
half, and by the time men began
returning to the business section of the
city the streets were filled with white
men, many of them armed. others try
ing to break into stores to obtain
weapons. Deputies from Sheriff Nc
Cullough's Office, fearing an attempt
would be made to lynch Rowland
bundled the negro into an automobile.
hid him under q robe and hurried with
him out Of town. When q crowd did
come to the county jail to use the
negro as an instrument of Its revenge
he was gone and the Sheriff would not
reveal where he had been taken.
For some time the white men and the
negroes contented themselves with firing
at one another across the railroad tracks.
but at 1 80 this morning an attempt
was made to set fire to the negro quar-
ter. Two houses at Archer and Boston
streets. used as a garrison by more than
fifty negroes. most of them armed with
army rifles, were set afire at that time
and an alarm was turned in. But the
efforts of the fire department to lay hose
were stopped by a crowd of white men.
who told the captain of the fire company
his men would be killed If they tried to
put out the fire and the firemen returned
to their station. The white men stood
In the shadows and fired at the negroes
as, terribly frightened and with their
guns abandoned. they ran from the burn
ing buildings. Several are believed to
have been killed.
Poured Gasoline ON Houses.
Five hours later the mob made a sec
ond and successful attempt to fire the
negro quarter. Detachments OF men OPP
Grating Independently rrawled along the
kldeWdlkS anu poured heTOsete dhu 6o-o'
| lene on the doors and windows and stoops
| Of the buildings; several which were
| vacant were entered and fired and al
most simultaneously flames began to
burst from the frame shacks that hud-
| died together the entire length OF Archer
| street.
Crowds of armed white men stood In
tho shadows made by the clouds OF
smoke and others whirled up and down
ir front of the burning houses In auto
mobiles The district was almost sur
rounded AMI from their vantage points
| the white men fired shot after shot into
the burning houses, killing only few
negroes. however. Most of the blacks
rushed from their homes without arms
and with their hands raised above their
heads. crying Don't shoot" These were
| taken to the prison camps which by this
| time had been established.
II was about the time when the fires
Logan to illumine the entire city and
| the noise OF the shooting could be heard
throughout all Tulsa that the city au-
| therities realized that the situation had
passed Beyond their control. a call