The Washington times., 1921-06-02
TULSA CALMAFTE
REIGN OF Terror
TAKES l00lIVES
Martial Law 80 Eostsuue.
ssarchers Rake Wrscksge of
Negro Settlement for Bodies.


was resumed as usual IN Tulsa today.
Following a night OF oniet. The mili-
kia stiil paced the streets and
martial law continued IN effect but
there was no disorder. and stores and
business places, which were barred
and bolted yesterday. we're opened
and people appeared on the streets
as though Tulsa's day of terror had
never happened.
There were no further outbreaks
OF race riot which had ragged un-
checked during the morning hours
yesterday and which was only put
down by the arrival OF the nstionsi
guard from outside cities.
100 BELIvED DEAD.
II is still impossible to gain an ac-
curate estimate OF the dead. Adjutant
General Charles +. Barrett stated that
the best figures he could obtain were
100 dead. Ten white persons are
dead and the total of negroes dead
is about ninety. according to the mill
itary check-up.
State troops. acting under the d.
rection OF Adjutant General Barrett.
patrolied the entire city during the
night. Pedestrians without passes and
motor cars, except official vehicles.
were barred from the streets between
midnight and o o'clock this morning.
All street car service was discontinued
throughout the night. Theaters and
places OF amusement were closed
early, as were a majority OF drug
stores. soda fountains and cafes. c'
A check-up this morning showed
ten white men 20 be dead and six Of
the thirty-Hve wounded in hospitals
20 be In critical condition. The
bodies of fifteen negroes were held
In various morrues Other bodies were
brought to the morRues this morning
from the ruins of the black belt"
where they had lain untouched since
yesterday morning. Over seventy
wounded negroes are reported in hos
pitals today. and more than twenty
were not expected to live for twenty
four hours.
LITTLE AFRICA LEvELED.
Z The Gordon of troops thrown around
the desolate region which was once
''1sttie Africa perhaps the most con-
centrsted and wealthy negro settle
ment in the Southwest before a. was
leveIed "Wednesday. morning by IRE
started by the white invaders. con-
tinusd TO DO picket duty today.
The district was a heep of black
ened ruins, into which none except
soldiers and police were permitted.
The district can never be restored.
II will have to be entirely recon-
structed.
Arjutant General Barrett today con-
sldered the advisability of pitching
semi-permsnent tents I'm the negro
district as soon as the wreckage can
be cleared up. TO serve as homes for
the negroes now herdsd into Conven-
tion hall and other buildings and
quartered at the baseball park.
RELIEF AGENCIES BUSY.
More than, 3.000 OF these negroes
taken prisoners yesterday stin were
being fed by RELIEF agencies head ed
by the Red Cross today. During the
night and today their numbers con-
ttnued TO increase as little bands OF
fuEitives. learning all danger was
past, began TO straggle back into
the city. Their meals were served
At the fair grounds.
. Information was received from n
number OF towns near this city to-
day that bands OF negroes from
score up to 400 in size, who had
fled from the city during the hours
Of terror were being cared for.
These were started back for Tulsa
this morning under assurances that
there would be no molestafir~