1. Among the victims there was not a single vagrant.
2. They were earning wages in useful work up to the time of the riot.
3. They were supporting themselves and their families or dependent relatives.
4. Most of the dead left small children and widows, mothers and sisters, with practically no means and very small earning capacity.
5. The wounded lost from one to eight weeks' time, at 50 cents to $4.00 a day.
6. About seventy persons were wounded and among these there was an immense amount of suffering … in some cases prolonged and excruciating pain.
7. Many of the wounded are disfigured and many are permanently disabled.
8. … most of them were honest, industrious, and law-abiding citizens and useful members of society….
9. Of the wounded ten are white and sixty colored. Of the dead, two are white and ten colored; two female and ten male….
10. It is clear that several hundred murderers or would-be murderers are at large in this community.
11. Although less than three months have passed … events have already demonstrated that the slaughter of the innocent does not deter the criminal classes from committing more crimes. Rape and robbery have been committed in the city in that time.
12. The slaughter of the innocent drives away good citizens. From one small neighborhood, twenty-five families have gone.
13. The crimes of the mob include robbery as well as murder … the property of innocent and unoffending people was taken … the victims, both men and women, were treated with unspeakable brutality.
14. All this sorrow has come to people who are absolutely innocent of wrong-doing.³⁷

For these crimes, the Grand Jury indicted sixty Negroes for murder and sixteen whites for riot.