The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-06-02
85 ARE KILLED,
HUNDRE EDS HURT
IN TULSA RIOTS
Ten Blocks in Black District Are
Licked Up BY Flames
NEGROES START SHOOTING
Hospitals Jammed-ThOusands
H0meless-City Controlled
BY Martial Law

Tulsa OKLA, June2.--Under strict
marital law the city today began sys-
tematic stock taking of the death and
ruin which few hours of race rioting
spread in its path Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning. Military forces
started to check up the list Of the dead
which unofficial estimates have placed
at somewhere near one hundred most
iof them negroes, A belief is express
sed by all officials that the distur-
bance would not reoccur Eight
white men have been xii ed, a check
up at the morgues has disclosed Some
OF thirty-hve white people who have
i been injured are expected to die.
Phys clans treating the wounded ne
groes at the hospitals said q score of
them could not recover. Military pa
trolls are keeping firm grip on the
situation today. The property loss,
according to real estate man will to-
| tai over Il million and a half
Tulsa Okla, June 1.-The hospi.
tails of Tulsa are filled with wounded
and dying men tonight, and the
morgues are crowded with dead after
twenty-four hours OF rioting between
VIII te men and negroes which began
when several hundred armed blacks
poured out Of Little Africa in an
attempt to rescue D,ck Rowland, Il
| negro, who was locked up yesterday
charged with attacking a seventeen;
year-old white girl
Clouds of smoke are still rolling
upward from the negro section,
where ten blocks OF homes and
stores, fred by the mob, are in ruins.
but beneath the smoke the city is
lpatrolIed by troops OF the Oklahoma
National Guard while machine gun
companies have mounted Their guns
at points where the muzzles sweep
wide stretches of the territory over
which the fighting occurred.
All of Tulsa county was placed
under martial law at II O'Clock yester
day morning by Gov. J, B A. Robert
son, and the military will rule until
there is no longer any danger OF a
renewal of the rioting
1t is not yet possible to state def
nitely the number of dead and wound
| ed. 1t Is known, however, that at
Ileast eighty-fve white men and
negroes have been killed, and it is
bel eyed that when the city is en-
Itirely quiet and the police have been
able to search all the points where
shooting occurred this number will
be largely increased.
May Be 200 Wounded.
Some estimates have placed the
number of dead as high as l75 but
so far there does not seem to be any
bas for such large figures. Eighty
five is the number given out late last
night at police headquarters as a
conservative estimate. The number
Of wounded is greatly in excess of
that number and may reach as high
as 200. At least 100 wounded, many
of them seriously hurt and some of
whom will die, are being cared for
in the city hospitals. The majority
of these are negroes, as the major
ity Of the dead are negroes. The po-
ce estimates give the dead white
men at twenty-five and the dead ne
groes at sixty
No effort has been made to esti-
mate the property damage caused by
the mobs of blacks and whites who
swept through the streets of the city
all ght and during the most Of tn $
morning The ten blocks of the
negro section which are in ruins
were crowded with wooden shacks
and two story buildings. These are
gone. and several larger and more
substantial build ngs on the out
skirts OF the negro district also were
destroyed.
During the height of the fighting
and in the early parts of it, when the
whites were not armed, great damage
was done to stores in the district
surrounding the court house, into
which the VIII te men sm<hed their
way to obtain weapons. These stores
have broken windows, smashed and
wrecked counter and looted stocks,
Troops Guard District.
Tonight the stores are being
guarded by detachments of soldiers,
with other detachments guarding
what is left Of the negro district.
which until last night housed almost
all Of the $1,000 blacks in Tulsa
The C ty is comparatively quiet
now, although now and then there
can be heard the sound of shots
from the negro district as guards
man fires at yandal or lone black
or white sniper shoots at an enemy.
Reports came to headquarters late
tonight that new fight ng had broken
out in the North Greenwood avenue
section, the principal negro business
district, and Guardsman and police
men were at once sent there in au.
tomobiles. This report was brought
to the pol ce by fireman, who said
negroes had fred upon trucks Of the
lire department and upon state
troops.
Thousands of negroes aer home!
less because when the fremen an.
sWered the alarms late last night