The press dispatches of October 1, 1919, heralded the news that another Race Riot had taken place the night before in Elaine, Ark., and that it was started by Negroes who had killed some white officers in an altercation.
Later on the country was told that the white people of Phillips County had risen against the Negroes who started this Riot and had killed many of them, and that this orgy of bloodshed was not stopped until United States soldiers from camp Pike had been sent to the scene of th.
The press dispatches of October 1, 1919, heralded the news that another Race Riot had taken place the night before in Elaine, Ark., and that it was started by Negroes who had killed some white officers in an altercation