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Show MANY DISORDERS FOLLOW RIOTS IN KNOXVILLE KNOVTLLE, Tenn., Aug. 31. Minor disorders occurred in Knoxville tonicht following the race riots Saturday night and early Sunda which were the sequel se-quel to the storming of the county Jail by a mob intent upon lynching Maurice Mayes, a negro accused of the murder of Mrs. Bertie Lindsey. a white woman The casualty list was increased today to-day by four negroes who resisted attempts at-tempts to search them for arms. All were wounded by national guardsmen, two being shot and the other two stabbed with bayonets. Eleven hundred guardsmen of th& Fourth Tennessee infantry, supplemented supple-mented by 200 special policemen and 75 special deputy sheriffs, patrolled the city dispersing crowds and searching all negroes. The guardsmen, who were in camp near the city for annual target practice, prac-tice, also searched all noproes arriving arriv-ing on trains and have established a barred zone in the herat of the negro district where the worst of the rioting early today occurred. Four machine i guns are mounted at a commanding point in this district and other machine ma-chine guns have been mounted on motor mo-tor trucks ready for eventualities. Parade Called Off. Union leaders today called off the Labor day parade scheduled for Monday. Mon-day. There has been shooting in various sections of the city all day and this continued tonight, causing dozens of riot calls. Some sections in which the most serious se-rious clashes occurred have not been searched thoroughly and reports conflict con-flict as to the number of casualties which may be concealed there. Two men are known to have been killed, fourteen others, eight white and six negroes, are in hospitals. Of these, four, two whites and two negroes are not expected to recover. Sixteen wounded white men had their slight woundfl dressed at one hospital. The known dead are: First Lieutenant James W. Payne, Madisonville, Ky., regular army. Joe Eiter, negro. The injured include Private E. V. Henderson of the Tennesssee national guard who may die. Lieutenant Pam- was killed accidentally acci-dentally early today by machine gun bullets. He was 200 yards from the I machine gunners with several other officers of-ficers when the party was fired upon by negroes from a second story win dow. Payne and his companions replied re-plied with their automatic rifles and sought cover. Just as Lieutenant Payne stepped behind a telephone pole i for protection the crew of a machine gun further up the street opened fire upon a crowd of advancing blacks. 1 Lieutenant Payne fell into the arms of Captain A. C. Parker of Memphis, with a dozen wounds in his legs and body. He died in an ambulance. At least three negroes were more or )ess seriously injured by members of Company D, Fourth Tennessee, be- J between daylight and noon, according to statements of soldiers. Hotels and restaurants in the city operated at a handicap today as few i negro employes made their appearance for work. Several hundred rifles stored at the University of Tennessee arsenal I were removed toniKni ny aruuer au ; thorities after rumors that a crowd of J negroes was forming in the outskiris expecting to arm themselves with this tupplj . For fear of further trouble, the' militia threw a guard around the section sec-tion of the city where most of the dis order occurred and patrolled the plac" all night and throughout Sunday. Early Sunday morning a few negroes came from their hiding places and found j their way back to their homes There is not a firearm of any description de-scription to be found In any store in I Knoxville as a result of raids made upon them Plate glass windows were crashed 1 in, locks forced and in some cases, doors demolished, in an effort to sc- cure weapons. Damage done to the stores and stocks is estimated to be about ?10,-000. ?10,-000. Hardware stores and pawn shops suffered the heaviest losses State troops tonight were standing i in front of each of the looted stores with fixed bayonets and with orders to keep the passing thrones movinc The mob which broke its way into the jail and the re side nee ot shorn:' Gate, adjoining, took everything of value, including monoj, guns, whiski J . clothing and books, were takpn. Part of the Jail records were destroyed. The mob first, made its appearance in the afternoon, small groups of men grouping group-ing about the jail. Shortly before nightfall the numbers began Increasing Increas-ing until the building was entirely si r-rounded, r-rounded, the mob refused to belie e that Mayes had been remoed to Chattanooga. For a little while the mob content--ed itself with shouting and shooting into the air. Soon men began pound-j ing on the heavy iron bars of one of i the front windows and eventually it gave way. Men began Bwarming into the jail and the jailer and deputies were overpowered Heavy timbers were used as battering rams, in an attempt at-tempt to force the doors to the wh' e cells. Failing, guns were brought into play and the locks were broken. All while men confined on the upper floors weie released. While the mob was releasing an- other was looting the jail. Then the rioters went through the sheriff's house. There they broke windows and destroyed such property as could not be taken with them. The first soldiers who arrived on the scene, sixteen men and one offi-cer offi-cer were overpowered, some of ihem disarmed andeight badly beaten. An hour later 150 soldiers reinforced the earl) squads Four different committees were permitted per-mitted to go through the jail in the search of Mayes. No effort was made to release the negro prisoners. The scene of the most intense fighting fight-ing was in the vicinity of Vine and Ontral avenues. There the Fourth Tennessee machine gun company j opened fire on the armed blacks. Nelson Easly, negro solider, who won a citation for distinguished service serv-ice overseas, dropped dead today Death was caused by heart trouble I .superinduced by excitement over the riots. Joe Etter, negTo store keeper, reputed re-puted to bo wealthy, was killed early j this morning Etter's body was left lying on the street several hours owing ow-ing to fear of undertakers' employe in pnter the district |