Show NEGRO SOLDIERS FIRE ON OFFICERS LEADS TO TORACE CLASH WITH H POLICE TWELVE WHITES RACE WAR BEING BEIN KILLED When hen Colored Col- Col Started General ored Soldiers Battle on Is Gf Guard rd at t Houston Hous- Hous Houston Hous- Hous I tn sn a rt Passing lH 1 r I ui an ton Texas Fire a s Ambul Ambulance noe which be bo- bogan Houston Texas Trouble Trouble of the military police poo po- between one gait gan colored infantry In- In Twenty fourth lice of the officer late Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- and a police pollee fantry resulted lit In n a rIot in III ina day a afternoon n negro soldIers which about n their officers rf mutinied fired upon killed twelve Houston P policemen and wounded twenty ono civilians and were the negroes others Three of ot wounded Gov morning At 1 o o'clock Friday martial martini law In Ferguson declared affected territory and Houston and und the Brigadier General General General Gen- Gen G General Parker placed command At that eral Hulen in were soldiers time most of t the te negro Strong guard over in camp with a n them About seventy of of- them still reported were at large and there was great unrest in the negro section of ot the city to close killed were Most 1 of those soldiers but as the camp of the negro the mutineers left they went through a negro section and it was there that and were killed most of the policemen wounded Captain J. J W. W Mattes A battery Second Illinois field artillery was among the dead being killed when he ha het t tried to remonstrate with the negro soldiers who were running rampant The firing began when an l. l ance ante started through the section occupied occupied oc oc- oc by the negro soldiers They stopped the ambulance and firing a 11 volley riddled it It was this volley that wounded a year old white girl standing in her fathers father's store Police reserves were sent out and were met mot by volleys from the negroes Civilians went to the lie assistance of th the police poUce officers and firing continued for foran foran foran an hour and a half |