The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-02
ORDER MARTIAL
Law FOR TULSA
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time there were reports of sporadic
shooting and the situation seemed to
be easing. Detachments of guardsmen
were scattered throughout the city
prepared to meet all emergencies with
machine guns ready for action. Guards
surrounded the armory while others
assisted in rounding up the negroes
and segregating them in the Jail, con-
vention hall, baseball park and other
places which had been turned into
prison camps.
Negro Attacks White Orphan Girl.
The trouble is reported to have been
the result of the arrest late yesterday
of Dick Rowland, negro, for an alleged
assault on a white orphan girl in an
elevator. The negro was spirited away
from the county Jail soon after two
o'clock this morning by deputies from
the office of Sheriff Mccullough.
Early last evening, armed negroes
appeared in the principal streets head
ed for the county court house, on the
upper story of which lis the Jail.
Shortly after, about 200 negroes had
surrounded the building, armed white
men began to appear.
The first attempts to fire the negro
section were made about 1880 o'clock
1 this morning. when white men openly
threatened to destroy the locality. Two
houses at Archer and Boston streets
used by more than 80 negroes as gar
rison, were set afre at that time and
an alarm was turned in. Efforts of the
fire department to lay hose were halted
by crowd of armed white men and
the department returned to it's station.
The attempt to lay the negro quarter
in ashes was resumed at $40 this
m orning when almost simultaneously
fires began to burst forth from the
doors and windows of frame shaeks
along Archer street. Soon dense clouds
of black smoke enveloped the locality.
Under cover of the smoke screen arm
ed men in motor cars and afoot threw
| a Gordon about the place where the ne
groes were stationed and occasionally
shots gave warning that the conflict
still waged.
Negroes Def Cause of First Shot.
AS the fire enveloped the houses, ne
groes were seen to dart out from fam
ing doorways with appraised hands,
shouting Don't shoot" AS they
dashed through the smoke they were
ordered to surrender and quickly were
removed to the prison camps.
The first known shot was fired soon
after dark last night when a police
officer attempted to disarm a negro.
According to the officer, the negro
resisted and was shot dead A white
man was killed shortly afterward at
| the court house by party of whites
who mistook him for a negro.
The firing came from spot where
throughout the early morning hours
five hundred white men and thousand
negroes faced each other across rail
road tracks. First reports to police
headquarters said that the bodies of
from six to ten negroes could be seen
lying in a space described as "No
Mans Land" The police also had a
report that three St. Louis and San
Francisco railway switchmen and
brakeman had been shot to death. The
trainmen were killed, it was reported,
because they refused to permit mem
bers of the opposing crowds to ride
upon switch engine passing between
the lines. The engineer was reported
to have escaped.
Officials had hoped that with the
coming of dawn the trouble which be-
gan over the arrest of negro late
yesterday for an alleged attack upon
a white. girl, would die out. On the
contrary, however, the early morning
gun fire was taken as an indication
that the riots had been renewed.
Situation Growing Worse.
With the situation growing admit
tedly worse, efforts were made to have
the three local companies of the ma
tional guard cope with the trouble
pending the arrival of Adj.-Gen. Chas.
IF. Barrett.
Until the new outbreak this morning
the number of known dead stood at
two white men and two negroes and
an undetermined number of persons
injured. AS the dawn broke so or 70
motor cars filed with armed white men
formed circle completely around the
negro section. Half dozen airplanes
circled overhead. There was much
shooting and shouting. A row of the
houses along the railroad tracks was
fired but lack of wind prevented the
flames from spreading. A party of
white rifemen was reported to be
shooting at all negroes they saw and
firing into houses. The negroes were
said to be returning the fire dispirit-
eddy. At 8:15 it was definitely ascer-
tanned that seven white men were dead,
some of them killed instantly and
some died in the hospitals.
In fresh outbreak at 1880 in the
Stand Pipe Hill district in the extreme
| northern section of the negro quarter
white woman was shot and wounded
by negroes barricaded in a church.
Hundreds of armed white men are
being rushed to the district in auto
mobiles. An open battle is believed
imminent. Dick Rowland, the negro
charged with assault, was removed
from the county Jail during the night
to place of safety unreyealed, it was
learned this morning.
Senate Adopts
plan for SurUnv