The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-06-02

10 GAllNEulSH Tue HdilleS. DeFeTdi
times the iiremen tried to break
through the mob with hose, but each
time they we're driven back and
once or twice they were fired upon.
Finally, they had to connne their
work to guard ng the warehouses and
the white residence districts adjoin-
ing the negro section.
Exodus of Negroes
The negroes who were driven from
home by the fire and by their own
fear streamed through the streets Of
Tulsa all morning some Of them
headed for other cities, hoping to get
to the city limits W thout beng killed
and others trying to reach white peo-
pie to whom they were known The
city authorities began herding them
together soon after daybreak and con-
fined them in the Convention hall, in
the baseball park and in the police
station. 1t is est mated that there are
about 5000 negroes now under guard
at these places. many OF them prs
oners who we're caught by troopers
and detectives with arms in their
hands Other negro prisoners are
locked up III the county and city jails
Drunken Blacks in Motor Cars.
Between $3.50 and o'clock auto
mobiles filled with shouting half
drunken negroes armed with rifles
and reyolvers apeared on the strets
Of Little Africa, These cars careened
wildly through the streets, the first
ones to appear picking up others until
with half an hour there were more
than a dozen OF them, all filed with
armed blacks. Soon afterward the
cars converged toward the court
house and the county Jail, where Row
land was kept under guard. The
machines were followed by a hundred
or more negroes on foot, most of them
armed with rifles and revolyers.
Meanwhile the reports of the pre-
parations the negroes We're making
to rescue Rowland had spread to the
White sections of the city Additional
policemen were sent to the court
house, and White men began drift
ing toward the county jail, apparently
more out of curiosity than anyth ng
else, because it developed later that
very few, if any, of them were armed,
Just before 10 o'clock a crowed of
perhaps a hundred white men had
gathered on the steps and in the
vicinity of the court house, including
a score of policemen and detectives.
These men were there when the first
motor car containing the armed and
shouting blacks came out of n side
street,swept into Boulder street and
whirled past the court house.
Cars Not Molested
This car was not molested by
either the police or the white men
on the steps of the court house, A
few minutes later another car ap-
peared on Sixth street shooting sud
denly from a narrow side street in the
direction followed by the first one
Then came others, and after them
the negroes on foot, their ranks CLINT
ing with rifles whose barrels caught
the rays of the street lamps. The
negroes marched back and forth IN
front OF the court house. shouting
and Detective Mcqueen approached
car which had stopped. He stopped
in front of it, and gigantic negro,
rifle in his hands, arose from the
back seat
Shot That Started Trouble.
This man appeared to be the leader
of the blacks Mcqueen told him that
his gang must disperse and go to
their homes, back in Little Africa.
The negro replied that they had come
to see that Rowland was not lynched
and that he had a fair trial
He will have fair trial." Nc
Queen said We've got enough po'
lice here to prevent anybody getting
him, and all these men with you
must 90 home
According to persons who were In
the court around the Court House,
the negro replied with an oath that
his gang would take Rowland from
the Jail and prevent the whites from
lynching him. Mcqueen then told the
negro he was under arrest and tried
to jerk him from the machine. The
negro lodging back among his COM
rades in the back seat of the car,
flung his rifle forward and fired one
snot at Mcqueen, the heavy steel
jaeketed bullet passing over the de-
tectiyes head and ploughing into the