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hard earnings of months of labor.

Large sums of money were taken by police and others the amount ranging from five to four hundred dollars, the latter being quite frequent owing to the fact that many of the colored men had just been paid off and discharged from the army.

No dwellings occupied by white men exclusively were destroyed and we have no evidence of any white man having been robbed.

From the present disturbed condition of the freedmen in the districts when the riot occurred it is impossible to determine the exact number of negroes killed & wounded. 

The number already ascertained as killed is about (30) thirty and the number wounded about fifty (50).  Two white men were killed viz. Stephens a policeman and Dunn of the Fire Dept.

The Surgeon who attended Stephens gives it as his professional opinion that the wound which resulted in his death was caused by the accidental discharge of a pistol in his hands, See Affdvt Mk "B".

Dunn was killed May 1st by a white man though mistake - (See Affdvt Mkd "B")

Two others (both Policemen were wounded) one slightly in the fingers the