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\l I In' MoMhrnj I Ui|*'Ctlt;tklriff 4*iVI|N«it\ Wii- mi iiituteiiiif i»it ull.lt lit.Hi n*;i llll^ht I ►|»|ili • il In'lHK'll MIHI A- »• II-mill mI»- ilt.iili u-mimI un .1 Imllt l ulilt li rut* r* «l illt;* Ink li of• !••• ImuiI lit tin tl ,ti n litH.pii.tlI lit*r« w.ni1 it tin. « 1*1 iiii'iii il H .1iikii s*lii* li i mil.| i«* fullmttil I • iMU In mnl In- u,if« iiiilil* iiitlittl tit*lit A o'rliM I. l hit tumiiliM\l simili s VI* « mi. I ml' rU»K m* «'fll|t,| II | In .||| l|l||l|''l|l t Mt t| Ullll* 411,111 ,i In nit Aft \ t .111 I.f lifniliHi* rIm* ilm i *i I'lill'-i * (limit i iili-niii; il* ImuiII li**n mi h n«» il* i*l hi Hit- •IIIHI ZlH*I .itall) I njiirt lt;1 \ II M il K. * t4th Si.. * t, *| n i*in*iti.• J.Injurt »l i. i i I. i. S iv A I • (i, • «ir.S|•*«lKAU1*. W IM.Mi i:Frisst II Hospital•IIIThf •i'KVS ,lt;WHITES ADVANCING INTO LITTLE AFRICA;’ NEGRO DEATH LIST IS ABOUT 15V, It:- the* coming of dawn this morning, following a n:.;hi of race rioting and death, hundreds of armed vshitc men in motor cars formed a circle of steel about i if tie Africa/* and a continuous rattlie of rifle and revolver fire could be heard.Si t or seventy automobiles filled with armed men were in the line drawn about the black belt and there!;*crc many reports to the effect that they planned to ^range through the negro settlement and “clean it out/*At 5:30 the death list was estimated as high as fifteen. Though no whites were known to be killed save two unidentified men listed in The World, reports to police headquarters from members of the white bands who had been at “the front between the line of armed wfnt'S end “Little Africa said they had counted the bodies of more than a dozen negroes stretched in thv«streets.While the bands of armed white men in motor cars were mrrounding the negro district six airplanes were circling over the section. Scattered along the Frisco tracks and in streets immediately south were between 500 and 1.000 more armed white men. Talk of driving into “Little Africa** could be heard on all sides.At 5:45 the white forces were pushing into “Little Africa from the south, bands of white riflemen being reported at Elgin and Archer. They were reported to be shooting into houses and at all negroes in sight.i There was no report of the extent of casualties. Th« negroes were not returning the fire very spiritedly, i.J was reported, but negro snipers were shooting from housetops and windows.Shortly after 2 o’clock this morning, the row of frame building cm the east side of Boston avenue north of the Frisco tracks was fired, but because there was no wind, the fUme* burned themselves out and did not spread to the Cincinnati avenue block which sheltered several hundredncproe*.At v o'clock the fire had gained sufficient headway to de-'t v - II the buildings except the residence on the north end of the bl rrk. When this building was burned, six negroqs who I-id been firing from the house at the whites weredriven from cover and five of the six who ran from the house ,.lf, , , / . V, .wen killed White men who took up their station at Archer s..,. n* * • m • i it. ,lt;. •and Bo*ton before 3 o’clock, succeeded in pushing their line t 1a I mi f t to ( mrinnati avenue in the face of fire from the lt;A Hl/TMTI IDTOO * IO negroi * I he negroes, however, made no dashes from their tilly r N I MKhNN |\ place- of hiding and except for the firing of a few shots at c-x r- , JUArmtervalr did not attempt to dislodgo whites in the negr'« Q||^PQq Qp JOYClMembers nf the crowd of 500 whites around the Frisco depot ilirnit 5 o’clock this morning engaged in a spirited bat-w •! M’vrral negroes perched on housetops. However, the i nlon Ar *. • , jn tn ni tin blacks war bad and no whites were injured, but tfirrr - j-roet were killed within a short space of time.On* • th,. blacks was perched on a two-story brick build-Int nn Archer. lb* raised up to fire but one of the whites *,H an arms rifle beat him to it nnd the black toppled, ap-P»ir*ntly dead. The other two blacks were hiding on Archer '»**•) v * . dropped by the white sharpshooters.lbree other black bodies were lying near the depot at day-kyht this morning. Two bodies had been removed.i ■ id -. ppoprii t»»r of the Hrmly hot* 1. who was a nii'vlTi-■t *’ ■ ■ * • ■ ’niMi nn guard duty along North Main street all• I e counted the bodies of five m*j?rolt;|.'s.• v'ro was. drajrg* d behind an automobile*. uith a roper *’ 1 * *‘« k. through, the business district,“' * t* »t thrn Frico -witchmen and a fireman, rm*m-a vv ichiifefir cn u. hadTulsa HospitalThree W(iijpd«'U m* ii * • - Til!,, h..*|*|t f,i•I'Oiel. hill •lt;i*Rri|r||{P. A* N. 11 as pH a!Other Hospitalsr If tptr*nit atr'In. Hill 11 a* tml* innI ft t* 11't*••la-i ml• •reaI. ed to hau I rum the Oklahoma hwpivahetn hot tc death by negroes the Ida. ks out of couldin tny\ ■ lii! hrec•UT that I?I at n:MO! whd* men had bt»en hr *ught thennoUsly it; urn I. The name were not scruml.• grn house- it KlF.gin and Archer win* reported
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The Morning Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma, US
Wed, Jun 01, 1921
Page 41
Full Page
Clipped by
Jack R.
USA 28 Jan 2023
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