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Bodies Seen at or Disposal Sites: In Lack of Carnations

after Computations as to the Deaths from the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot by Richard “Dick” Warner

In Newblock Park City Incinerator on the East & West Ends. Buried in Booker T. Washington, Rose Hill, Oaklawn & Black Perryman Cemeteries—

Somewhere in Jenks, tossed in a river & buried in a sandbar. Under the railroad bridge over the Arkansas River. In Standpipe Hill, Reservoir Hill, North Cinnati Hill— Mohawk and Chandler Park areas.

On the 11th Street bridge, burned. On the Katy Railroad tracks. Burned as well.

Hidden in the Brady Theater basement, on East 36th and South Peoria, between South Peoria and Riverside Drive on 41st Street, between East 31st & East 41st Street, and South Lewis.

Entombed in the mines: on NW corner of East 21st Street and South Sheridan, on NE corner of East 21st Street and South Yale, on SW corner of East 21st Street and South Harvard, and all along East Apache.

Placed under other rail-road tracks, in the fairgrounds under the Reserve building on East 15st Street. In a hole.

Tossed in other mines—the ones in West Tulsa, south of Collinsville, between Catoosa and Claremore. Bodies seen passing Oneta on the Katy Rail-Road train and along the railroad tracks west of Oakland Cemetery.

Alexxus Browning, BLM Mural - Tulsa OK Series

Disposed on the pier west of Tulsa on West 3rd , between Tulsa and Sand Springs in the ground. Rumors of mass graves near Crystal City in Red Fork, on way to Sapulpa, Tracy Park across from South West corner of Oaklawn, under the Traffic Circle at Mingo Road & East Admiral… All disposed in mass graves of non-histories.

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