Serious Rare Riot
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THE RACE RIOTS. NEW YORK, June 2. In the race riot the deaths at Tulsa total over 100. Many were burned to death when tlio entire negro quarter of ten blocks was incendiarily destroyed* - Propaganda all over Oklahoma State incited the negroes to rise because of the failure of their pleas for racial equality. The authorities are being roundly blamed for waiting too long till the negro settlement became a shambles before they acted. The Tulsa riots have been quelled. The death rate will probably never be known, as many negroes were burned with their homes. The number of 135 out of those known to have been wounded are expected to die. The best available reports place the present dead at 100, and the property damage at nearly 2,000,000 dollars. j
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1921, Page 3
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139Serious Rare Riot Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1921, Page 3
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