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Show sun FIT nun of blacks! I Several Participants Report-j ed Wounded; Probe Into Riots Begun. JJTTL.E ROCK", Ark.. Oct. S. According Accord-ing to a long-distance message from a : staff correspondent of the Arkansas j Democrat, a battle is in progress between fifty soldiers of the Fourth -infantry and I an equal number of armed negroes in a I heavily wooded district three miles east j of Ulaine. i Fifteen negroes were captured :rr the j fight near Kialne late this afternoon and J others in the band scattered. It is be- j lived that irtually all of the leaders of: the negroes have been captured. Several ; negroes were wounded and one soldier j was slightly wounded. HELENA, Ark., Oct. 3. While the situation in Helena is almost normal tonight to-night and virtual calm -prevails i n the ' southern pari of the county, which bus been practically a .one of negro insurrection insur-rection since Tuesday nigh t, sporadic clashes have taken place in the iast twency-i'our hours. Three negroes are reported to have been killed today, in addition to two killed by soldiers near Ulaine last night. Another negro is reporte;! lo have been wounded by machine-gun fire. Rounding up of negroes ne-groes by th'j federal' troops sent into the section continues. Investigation of the disorders was begun be-gun today by a "committee of seven." appointed ap-pointed by the civil author tt ies of the county with the a pproval of Governor Charles Brough. The committee is working work-ing in cooperation with the military authorities au-thorities and will take testimony from negroes as well as white persons. A statement issued late today over the signature of officials and prominent citizens citi-zens expressed the oolnion that normal conditions would be resumed after today. to-day. ; Among the negroes arrested at Elaine j today was one identified as Ed Hicks, alleged to have been a leader in the move-1 move-1 ment to rise against the white residents. The fillegcd head of the disaffected ne-! ne-! groes has not been captured, according i to word reaching here, but his description descrip-tion has been sent broadcast, his name being given a3 "Hill" or "Hall." His home is said to be at Winchester, Drew county, to the northwest of the scene of tlio racial troubles in this county. A message sent by the railroad station atent at Klaine late today stnted that a report received there indicn ted tha; a number of negroes b.?d been surrounded near the village of .Modoc, cast of Elaine, and a. detachment of soldiers had started for the scene to place ihem under arrest. 'Te reported considerable shooting in the canebrakes a bout Klaine'. where soldiers were engaged in a st-areh for possible hiding places or' neg'Oes. A report reached 1 Tel -'- a by telephone (Continued on psge 3, Column 3.) i SOLDIERS FIGHT BAWD OF BLACKS (Continued From Page One.) tonight that twenly-bvc negroes were going go-ing in the direction of the- river, and measures were taken to prevent their escape into Mississippi- The number of negroes known to have been killed remained officially tonight at fourteen, n K hough statements nuule by prisoners today that eighteen of their I number had been killed previous to last night would bring the total to twenty-six. rfoven are reported wounded. Figures tonight on the white casualties showe i a total of five dead and six wounded, tiie latter Including a soldier wounded today and removed to a Helena hospital. KLAINT:, Ark., Oct. 3. With the arrest ar-rest today of j;d Hicks, said to have been a ringleader of an organization believed by officers to have been largelv responsible responsi-ble for the recent disl urbance In Phillips county, civil and military officials tonight expressed the opinion that at least one of the sources of Ihe Holing, of the past two days had been definitely eliminated. |